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Every step of how to make tiny books, from coming up with what you want to say to stapling your finished product into existence.

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I made my first zine in high school. It was just a folded eight-page booklet that I drew on with friends at a coffee shop, then made copies of on the Xerox machine in my mom's office. All it had were our sketches, and perhaps a few provocative phrases that didn't really mean anything. But for us, it was a shareable snapshot of the creative friend group we had gathered and the ways we were mutually coping with teen angst.

My friends and I learned the medium because a cool older artist had shown us. We were immediately hooked on the idea of collaborating on cheap little books together. At the time, we weren't even really aware of the rich history behind zines and punk culture. I, at least, wasn't thinking critically about the radical potential of self-publishing, or the capacity for zines to spread political resources, help start movements, or create subcultural communities across long-distances before the internet made that easy.

I'm OK with not having known all that then. Because despite all the way that zines allow us to resist, they can also just be an excuse to collaborate, or to put something that's entirely your own out into the world. For that reason, making your first zine can be a formative experience. It can be a reason to ask yourself: What do I have to say? And to give yourself the permission to say it.

The world of zine-making is endlessly vast. If you're just getting started, here's a guide-complete with illustrations by Ambar Del Moral -to help you out.

Your zine doesn't have to be the most brilliant publication ever, or even the piece of work you're proudest of. Just make something that reflects how you're feeling or what you're thinking about at the moment.

If nothing immediately comes to mind, get together with friends (or not-making a zine solo is cool, too) and decide, first, what type of zine you want to make. The options are truly endless: It could be a poetry zine, a photo zine, a comic, a collage zine, a zine of essays, a fanzine dedicated to your favorite band or artist, or a political-manifesto-type zine. Alternatively, you can focus on a topic and go from there-perhaps you want to share recipes that remind you of home, or write about the microagressions you experience as a marginalized person, or make an informational zine about how to identify birds.

If you need some inspiration, look up whether there's a bookstore near you that sells zines. Even better: Go to a zine fest if you can. There are also zine libraries at some colleges. Plus, a lot of zine makers are active on Tumblr and Instagram. Check out Unity Press, 3 Dot Zine, Brown Recluse Zine Distro, and RE/search to start.

Zines can take all kinds of forms, some easier than others to make. There are stitch-bound zines, perfect-bound zines, accordion zines, tiny zines that come in matchboxes, large poster-sized zines that unfurl, and digital, online-only zines. There are two types of zines that I'd recommend as a place to start: eight-page folding mini zines and standard booklets made from folded printer paper.

If you decide you want to make an eight-page mini zine, all you need to do is start with one page of printer paper. Following the diagram above, fold it into eight rectangles and cut a horizontal slit down the center of the page between the four innermost rectangles. Each little rectangle on one side of the paper will be one page. If you're feeling ambitious, you can decorate the other side so that once people are done reading, they can unfold the zine into a poster. For full folding instructions, check out this handy dandy video.

If you want to make a stapled zine, that means you will be using printer paper folded in half (so that the left and right sides touch) to make a booklet. More info on how to format, print, and staple those below!

If you're creating a physical master copy of your zine, remember that each folded piece of paper is four different pages of your zine-and they are not all consecutive! The first page will be on the same piece of paper as the last page, for instance. (See the illustration above.) For that reason, all folded zines must have a page count that's divisible by four. After you've decided the number of pages your booklet will have, fold your zine and number the pages with pencil before getting started. That way, you won't get confused.

If you're working digitally, you can create each page individually and save as a normal PDF. Your pages should each be 5.5" x 8.5" and your page count must still be divisible by four.

Depending on what kinds of materials you're most comfortable with, there are a lot of ways to design your zine.

The most traditional method is analog, through either collaging or drawing. That means handwriting and drawing whatever you want the content of your zine to be. It can also mean gathering archival photos, Xeroxing images from books, cutting stuff out from magazines, and printing out text (or using a typewriter), then pasting them all together onto the page.

If you're more of a computer kid than crafty type, make it digitally. Use whatever software you prefer-Photoshop, Illustrator, inDesign or Microsoft Word. (If those are new to you but you want to try them, there are plenty of tutorials on YouTube.) Go wild. Remember: You can also use a mixture of all of these methods. (If you're making a zine with a bunch of people, it may even be necessary, since different people will prefer to make their pages in different mediums.)

Once you're done, save the file with a CMYK color profile so that it's optimized for print rather than the internet. And a reminder: Like normal books, you don't want your text to be too close to the edge of the page, because it won't be legible once it's bound!

Decide if you want different papers for the "guts" (the inside pages of the zine) and the cover. You may consider printing the insides on normal printing paper and the cover on a heavier-weight paper-people almost always judge books by their covers, even if they're taught not to. You may want to use special paper for the insides, as well. (If you're making a photo zine, for instance, you may want a relatively thick, or even glossy, paper for your guts.) If you want something nice for either, go to your local paper store. You'll be overwhelmed by all the weights, textures, and colors available.

Decide how you're going to print your zine. If it's a small "run" (total copy count) and only a short zine, you may consider using your printer at home. If you're printing a lot, though, that can get expensive. Alternatively, you can go to a copy store where you'll pay per page and don't have to worry about how much expensive laserjet ink you're using up. Many public libraries have printers and copy machines you can use as well.

If you're working from a physical master copy, you'll need to copy each page, then feed the paper back into the printer and print onto the other side. (Do some tests to make sure you're feeding the paper in with the correct sides up). Even better: Scan your physical copy and create a PDF. Then, like with other PDFs, print with the "booklet" setting. If the printer you're using doesn't have that setting, there are websites that can help you put the pages in the correct order.

If you're making a large run of zines or printing a very colorful zine, you may consider getting it done professionally by a local press or an online printer. If you go this route, there is a higher starting cost, but the more copies you order, the more money you'll save.

The last decision is how you want to bind it all together. Stapling is the easiest and most common way to go. To do that, order your pages, create a column of two or three staples vertically down the center of the pages, and fold them in half to make the booklet. A standard stapler won't reach to the middle of the page, so buy a long-armed stapler from an art supply store or borrow one from an art studio.

Stitch-binding, where the book is sewn together at the spine with thread, is a little more work, but has a nice DIY look. To achieve it: Fold your zine in half to make a crease, poke three holes along the fold, and thread through the holes with a simple running stitch until it feels secure. You can either use normal sewing thread or thicker embroidery thread.

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Zines with more than 60 pages may be too thick to staple or sew. You'll need to bind those with glue like a book-a method called "perfect binding." For this sort of thing, I recommend collaborating with a print shop that has the glue and binding machinery available. (It can be tough to do on your own.)

Once all your pages are together, you're done! Go and trade your zine with your friends, send it to bookstores all over the country, and enter zine fests-or just keep it for yourself and feel proud that you made your own tiny book, out of your own big ideas.

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Going Places: The Realities of Being Native
Kesheena writes: "My intent in making this zine is to help elucidate the Native American experience. So often, friends and strangers alike have asked me naive questions about Indians. This is largely due to the scarcity of factual information of Native Americans and the prevailing stereotype of the Indian." The zine starts out with Native American issues and history where Kesheena gives a quick over view of the basics of Native folks culture and history. Kesheena pens an emotional open letter to her future son, which illustrates the difficulties of navigating Native stereotypes. Also included are thoughts on the Hopi Paris Auction and Pendleton and much much more. Going Places is smart, well-written and accessible. Do your self a favor and get this zine.

Going Places: Powwow Country Kesheena writes another amazing zine, this time about Powwow's and shares her experiences going to them as a child. She discusses traveling to different parts of the country attending different powwow's, the different style s that different tribes have and her families participation. This zine is a display of how the per-zine can be so many different things! Highly recommend! Also included is a Powwow Mix CD!

Going Places: A Native American in Education A reflection on college life - including frustrations, disillusionment, hopes, and direction - and how Kesheena's identity as a Navajo woman has shaped her college experience. Touches on family, assimilation, the "responsibility to get an education to uplift / better one's tribe," expectations, language, punk, feminism, and pride. Poignant, well written& raw text-heavy reflections and poems.

GOING PLACES pt 1 diné diaspora Kesheena is the organizer for Portland Zine Symposium the author of the three GOING PLACES zines that we have carried at BRZD, and we are super excited about her newest zine, dine diaspora. because of colonization, the dine were forced to leave their homeland of dinetah and have been dispersed across the country; kesheena writes on how diaspora impacts her identity (how being dine intersects with her punk identity) and shares stories of connecting with other najavo, including strangers on the street in San Francisco, her mother, and najavo punks. dine diaspora includes reflections, stories, poems, and interviews with various najavo punks.
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Going Places: Indigenous Resistance "This issue of Going Places is a best of compilation of past issues, the author's thoughts on Standing Rock, plus a quick history of the Dakota Access Pipeline." ALL PROFITS WILL BE DONATED TO STANDING ROCK -- Going Places is one of my favorite series in the distro. It's so important, especially now, to listen to indigenous voices. BRZD has been donating to Standing Rock each week with the sales of bags, pins, and postcards, and includes a free NoDAPL zine in every order. #waterislife #NoDAPL

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Robertson is an Indigenous anti-violence advocate who has received trainings and certifications from Sacred Circle, the former National Resource Center to End Violence Against Native Women as well as the current National Indigenous Women's Resource Center. Robertson is also an active member of the Los Angeles Indian community and in this capacity has served as the chairperson for the Parent & Community Committee of the Los Angeles Unified School District's Indian Education Program; as a councilmember of the American Indian Community Council; as the project coordinator for Insight - an Indigenous Youth and Violence Prevention Project; and as the community outreach coordinator for American Indian Families Partnership. She also currently serves as the Co-Creative Director of Meztli Projects -- an Indigenous and youth centered arts collective.

She earned an MA in American Indian Studies and a PhD in Women's Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2012 and is an Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at California State University, Los Angeles.

Informed by Indigenous feminisms, Kimberly Robertson's creative practices include screen printing, collage, beadwork, installation art, and zine-making. They address the settler colonial and heteropatriarchal violences that plague Indigenous communities and operationalize the decolonial worlds many of us desire to live in. Her work centers the ideas and practices of ceremony, storytelling, intersecting subjectivities, dislocation, decolonization, and Indigenous futurities.

"I was a first-generation college student, the oldest of six, and the first in my family to go to college. When I took a women's studies class my freshmen year, I felt like the whole world cracked open for me. I finally found the words to articulate my experiences. The same thing happened again when I took my first Indigenous studies course. I really fell in love with education (and eventually ARTivism) as a tool for social justice, community empowerment, decolonization, and healing."

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https://www.eastbayalternativebookandzinefest.com/ebabz-digital-zine-library

Sherwood Forest Zine Library:

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