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Ten queer feminist zines to look out for at Grrrl Zine Fair

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Lu Williams, founder of the Grrrl Zine Library and Fair, introduces us to some of the best emerging zines

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Escalator Faces; The Galleries Shopping Centre, Broadmead, Bristol, August 2024 | Simon Holliday

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Escalator Faces; The Galleries Shopping Centre, Broadmead, Bristol, August 2024.

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787 Followers, 1,156 Following, 59 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Sam Simpson-Pattison (@ssp_photography_uk)

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Sari Soininen is a Finnish photographer based in Helsinki.

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Until the mid-twentieth century, documentary photography was a vital way of bearing witness to world events: from shoot-from-the-hip photographs of the Spanish Civil War by Robert Capa to the considered portraits of poor farmers by Dorothea Lange.

social documentary photography

During this period the tradition of documentary photography was reinvented. Artists began to see the camera as a tool for social change, using it to shed light on injustice, inequality and the sidelined aspects of society. However, social documentary photography is often a subjective art and not all photographers in this category intend their images to aid the bettering of society.

Lisette Model's close-up views of people on the streets of Paris, New York and the French Riviera were often taken without the subjects' awareness or permission. From 1949 onwards, Robert Frank started to take pictures which reflected his search for artistic freedom, shooting stories which revolutionised the expressive potential of the medium.

Contemporary artists

With the rise of television and digital technology there was less demand for published photography and it began to go into decline but has since found a new audience in art galleries and museums. Putting these works in a gallery setting places the work at the centre of a debate surrounding the power of photography and the photographer's motivations. Their work raises questions of the documentary role of the photograph today and offers alternative ways of seeing, recording and understanding the events and situations that shape the world in which we live.

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Until the mid-twentieth century, documentary photography was a vital way of bearing witness to world events: from shoot-from-the-hip photographs of the Spanish Civil War by Robert Capa to the considered portraits of poor farmers by Dorothea Lange. During this period the tradition of documentary photography was reinvented.

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488 followers, 309 following, 34 posts – see Instagram photos and videos from Jamie Horrigan (@jammies_photos)

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Jem Southam (born 1950) is a British landscape photographer and educator. He makes long-term studies of selected sites, in colour. Southam's work is held in the collections of the British Council; UK Government Art Collection; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; Science Museum Group, UK;Tate, UK; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

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‘I’m Not The Girl Who Misses Much‘, Pipilotti Rist, 1986

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Many happy events happening in the month of October. We hope to see you there!

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Brain Powered Arts + Crafts with Ana Dziengel
‍ Thursday, October 5th, 6pm PST
When you exercise the brain with new activities, new connections are created which can help your neuroplasticity! Join us in learning new creative techniques while creating masterpieces. From bread sculptures to herb weaving, these relaxing retro crafts will get your creative juices flowing and keep your brain sharp with artist and educator Ana Dziegel.
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There Should Be New Rules Next Week: Thursday, October 5th, 4pm EST Worcester, MA - Holy Cross University Jen Delos Reyes + Nellie Scott
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Corita Kent's art will appear alongside the works of contemporary artists showing her continued influence. Breanne Trammell, Mary Banas, Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo, Roz Crews, Jen Delos Reyes, Christine Sun Kim, Jorge Lucero, Mary Lum, Maria del Carmen Montoya, Aaron Rose, and Lee Walton will all be featured.
Saturday, October 7th, 10am PST
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Using small but mighty seeds, beans, and grains, kids will learn how to make unique mosaic masterpieces on a cardboard "canvas". We will paint the creations to give our mosaics a pop of color. Join us with artist and educator, Ana Dziengel, as we make art and learn about the smallest of foods that fuel us.

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Friday, October 13th, 7pm EST New York, NY - Anthology Film Archives
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To celebrate the release of the new book, Ordinary Things Will Be Signs for Us: Photographs by Corita, published by J&L Books and Magic Hour Press, 2 rarely-seen short films about Corita Kent will be screened. The event will be hosted by the book's editors, Julie Ault, Jason Fulford, and Jordan Weitzman, as well as contributor Olivian Cha, Senior Curator of Corita Art Center, and will be followed by a reception. Books will be available to purchase in-person.

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Corita Kent, also known as Sister Mary Corita, was an artist with an innovative approach to design and education. The Corita Art Center, a project of the Immaculate Heart Community, preserves and promotes Corita Kent's art, teaching, and passion for social justice.

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Benefits of photography and mental health

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Benefits of photography and mental health

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Discover the joys of therapeutic photography for your mental health and wellbeing.

Art of all kinds has long been known to help us in our daily lives. When we struggle with our mental wellbeing, the creative arts can help to calm our busy minds, give us an outlet for our emotions, and provide us with a sensation of being able to do something for ourselves - however small.

Photography, specifically, can be incredibly beneficial for our mental health. In a hectic world, it can be hard to see how something we enjoy so much, and perhaps even do for a living, can help with our mental wellbeing. But picking up a camera could just be the key to feeling that little bit brighter - read on to find out more.

What is therapeutic photography?

Therapeutic photography allows you to use your photos for wellbeing or personal healing purposes. Photography is great therapy for many of us, whether we know it or not. Photography has a number of therapeutic benefits linked to our mental health, as it helps us showcase our creativity, allows us to detach from otherworld responsibilities and improves our mood.
The Time to Change campaign looks to raise awareness over the representation of mental health images in the media.
Mental health photography ideas

Combine your photography with creative writing and allow yourself some release. Many photographers pair their work with descriptions of the shot or their experiences on location. Of course, your creative writing can showcase both your positive and negative experiences. You may find that during what has been an incredibly tough year, that writing about your lockdown experiences along with your photography can be great therapy.

Recently, many photographers have sought to remove the stigma of mental health with their work. Time to Change , a campaign that was backed by Stephen Fry encouraged editors within the media to use alternative images to accompany stories related to mental health.

You can explore your own methods of therapeutic photography with some ideas that demonstrate the importance of mental health in photography, including:

Photography to relieve anxiety

You will have heard the word "mindfulness" mentioned a lot over the past few years. The practice of consciously partaking in an activity can have similar benefits to meditation, which is what mindfulness is all about. Photography can be an act of mindfulness in itself - when you are behind the camera, you will be in a flow which allows you to focus your energy not on your outside concerns, but solely on the moment and task at hand. When you emerge from your photography session, you can feel calmer and more present than when you began, which can help enormously in any difficult situations you may encounter across your day.

Boost your confidence through photography

When we suffer from depression, anxiety, or any other number of mental health challenges, our self-esteem plummets. We can feel as though we have nothing to offer, and that we are not achieving as we should. If it is difficult to get out of bed, how can we take pride in anything else?

Grab your camera! Choose a good day and allow yourself to sink into a photography session, no matter how short. Not only is this good for helping you tackle that feeling of not being able to do anything, actually seeing the photographs you have taken can boost your self-esteem and confidence.

Make sure to take the time to look back on the photographs you have taken. Feel proud of your achievements - art is as important as any other activity.

Express yourself with photography

Perhaps the most important way that photography can help with your mental health is as a form of self-expression. Try to think of ways that you can express how you are feeling and what your experiences are through your photography. You can use self-portraits with props to truly get to the heart of your struggles through your art. Even if you are not feeling up to setting up lavish photography scenes, you can simply keep a photo journal of your everyday life and reflect back on it.

Like any form of creative art, photography can be a wonderful way to create a personal glimpse into your world that might otherwise remain locked away forever. Taking a photograph can help you to process hard times - and make them beautiful.

So if you want to use your camera skills as a way to channel your feelings and find a moment of stillness, you might just be engaging in the kind of self-care that could help to promote better mental wellbeing both now and in the future.

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Art of all kinds has long been known to help us in our daily lives. When we struggle with our mental wellbeing, the creative arts can help to calm our busy minds, give us an outlet for our emotions, and provide us with a sensation of being able to do something for ourselves - however small.

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What is a Zine? Find out what a zine is and when and why they evolved. Includes good examples and how to use them in the art room.

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CUT AND PASTE is a new column that celebrates proto-blog culture by delving into the world of self-published print media - colloquially referred to as zines - which cover a wide scope of the personal and political lives of its authors and their various cultural obsessions. The column will be a mix of zine reviews, profiles and interviews with zinesters, highlights of zine archives and libraries, and coverage of zine events in today's still-thriving culture. For our first installment, Rebecca Kunin, who teaches a course she designed at Indiana University called "Punk, Zines, and D.I.Y. Politics," gives us a brief rundown of zine history.
Zines are handmade and self-published print media. With relatively limited amounts of copies in circulation - both a practical constraint and ideological decision - they critique for-profit mass production. Zines often draw from the personal perspectives. As such, they tend to cover niche topics and come in many different shapes, sizes, colors, textures, and formats.

While the term was first utilized in 1930s/40s sci-fi fandoms, zines were embraced by punks in the 1970s as a counterattack to elitism in mainstream music journalism and the music industry. When punk music exploded onto local scenes, it upended mainstream notions of popular music. The core methodology of this critique was a D.I.Y. ethos. D.I.Y. suggests that one creates something - a show, song, zine, etc. - using the resources at their disposal. It suggests that an authentic message is one that is unfiltered by gatekeepers, who are swayed by corporate interests and the need to market and sell to mass audiences. A "rough around the edges" aesthetic, as it follows, is gladly embraced as evidence of human ingenuity in the face of an increasingly corporate and elitist artistic marketplace. This aesthetic (or ideal) manifested in punk music, fashion, political organizing, and print media, i.e. zines.

Zines became an important form of insider communication in punk scenes. One could turn to a local fanzine for a show review, interview, scene report, and pretty much anything else related to punk or otherwise. Beyond local contexts, zines traveled via touring bands and snail mail, spreading information and drawing connections across regional, national, and international D.I.Y. networks.

Because punks directed their rage towards corporate elitism and promulgated an ethos of inclusivity, it is easy to romanticize their outreach. While punk critiques capitalism, sexism, homophobia, and racism, for instance, it also exists within a world that is capitalist, sexist, homophobic and racist. Far from an egalitarian utopia, queer and femme punks and punks of color have had to exist within what scholar and zinester Mimi Thi Nugyen describes as "whitestraightboy hegemony." Zines, however, became important sites for such critiques within punk spaces. Because of their participatory nature, more punk subcultures formed along these lines of critique.

One of these subcultures was queercore, a critique of homophobia within punk and conservatism within mainstream gay and lesbian movements. In the 1980s, Toronto-based multi-media collaborators Bruce LaBruce and G.B. Jones published J.D.s and helped to pioneer a local queercore scene. While there are many more titles than can be listed here, some of the most circulated Toronto-based zines included Bimbox and SCAB (Society for the Complete Annihilation of Breeding), Double Bill (Caroline Azar, Jena Von Brucker, G.B. Jones, Johnny Noxzema, Rex Roy), and Jane Gets a Divorce (Jena Von Brucker). Queercore, however, was not only based out of Toronto. Participants collaborated across geographic distances to other cities. Out of Southern California, Vaginal Davis published The Fertile Latoyah Jackson in the early 1980s. Up the coast in San Francisco, Homocore (by Tom Jennings and Deke Nihilson) and Outpunk (by Matt Wobensmith) were circulating widely. Out of Portland, Team Dresch bandmember Donna Dresch published Chainsaw, a homocore and riot grrrl zine. Many of the above-mentioned zines (and more) can be read in digitized formats on the Queer Zine Archive Project's website. Although centered on zines, queercore was a multimedia punk subculture that created music, films, and social networks. Outpunk and Chainsaw, for instance, doubled as record labels. By fusing art and activism, queercore reclaimed punk's queer roots and created networks for queer individuals.

In the early 1990s, riot grrrl grew from local scenes in Olympia, Washington and Washington D.C. into an international movement with local chapters across North America, Europe, and Asia. This activist art scene developed from feminist punks who were tired of the white boy mentality that dominated punk spaces. Riot grrrls used zines to discuss their personal experiences with sexism. Many members of this scene also performed in punk bands and advocated for feminist values and safe spaces at their shows. Famously, Kathleen Hanna of punk band Bikini Kill would call all the girls to the front at the beginning of their set. While it would be impossible to list all of the riot grrrl zines that were produced, some of the germinal ones include Jigsaw (Tobi Vail), Bikini Kill (Tobi Vail, Kathleen Hanna), Girl Germs (Molly Neuman, Allison Wolfe), Riot Grrrl (Molly Neuman, Allison Wolfe, Kathleen Hanna, Tobi Vail), and Gunk (Ramdasha Bikceem). These, and thousand more zines, connected femme punks across local, national, and international D.I.Y networks.

While riot grrrl opened a lot of spaces for women in punk, it is not without its critiques. Riot grrrl was mostly (although not exclusively) white, and many of its participants were middle class. Punks of color and non-white riot grrrls critiqued riot grrrl for failing to address structures of racism and their own privilege within those structures on more than a superficial level. This critique of the whitewashing of feminist punk echoed a critique of race and racism in punk across many local scenes. In the 1990s, Race Riot emerged within this discussion. Mimi Thi Nguyen and Helen Luu published Evolution of Race Riot/Race Riot 2 and How to Stage a Coup, respectively, which are compilation zines that brought together punks of color to discuss racism in punk spaces and larger societal institutions. Bianca Ortiz ( Mamasita), Sabrina Margarita Alcantara-Tan ( Bamboo Girl), Miriam Bastani ( Maximum RocknRoll), Osa Atoe ( Shotgun Seamstress), and Anna Vo ( Fix My Head) are some of the central zinesters who have contributed to this discussion. Many of these zines can be read in digital formats via the People of Color Zine Project, founded by Daniela Capistrano.

By the 2000s, early social media websites and blogging platforms such as WordPress, Tumblr, Myspace, Live Journal, Bebo, and early Facebook introduced a new way for young people to interact with each other in an unfiltered format across greater geographical distances and at higher and faster rates. E-zines and blogs took zines from print to digital format.

Amidst all this, zine culture in its print form has remained alive and well. Zines can be found in cities and towns across North America (and around the world) at record stores, bookstores, comic book stores, zinefests, community centers, libraries and elsewhere. A handful of stores, such as Quimby's (NYC and Chicago) specialize in zines. Rather than a replacement for zine culture, the internet has become a tool for zinesters to access a wider audience.

Now, when I go to a zinefest, I see zines on a number of different topics. I see zines about everything ranging from music, film, animals, feminism, and racism, to food and more. It is hard to ignore that a significant proportion of zines that I've encountered lately relate to themes of health and wellness - a trend that I suspect might be influenced by the inaccessibility of healthcare in the US and the stigmatization of mental illness and trauma. Another widespread theme in contemporary zine publishing is prisoner rights. Ranging from political essays by scholars and activists outside of prison to poems, essays, and illustrations from people who are incarcerated, these zines critique the prison industrial complex from an intersectional lens, exploring racism, classism, sexism, ableism, and homophobia. Tenacious, for instance is a zine written by incarcerated women and compiled by activist Victoria Law.

A lot of people in zine culture that I've chatted with mention a first zine that drew them in completely. For me, it happened when I was a 23-year-old ethnomusicology graduate student. I was at Bluestockings, a radical feminist co-op in Manhattan's Lower East Side, and I saw a brightly colored, glossy zine that stood out and immediately drew me in. The front cover was embossed in sections with glitter tape and a metallic noise maker was attached to the binding. It was called They Make Noise by Lou Bank and it featured portraits and bios of underground queer musicians. I remember being stricken by the fact that the zine was not just words on the paper, but a carefully thought out piece of art that someone spent a lot of time and care to assemble.

I became quickly consumed by zines and before I knew it, I was collecting them for my own bedroom archive. I made my first zine a couple of months later - my roommate Emmie Pappa Eddy and I collaborated and collectively created a fanzine about Friday the 13th. After that initial step I began to make more zines and after a couple of years, I built up my nerves to table at Bloomington's Zine Fest. In graduate school, I have begun to work with zines in classroom settings as a creative alternative to elitist (and stodgy) academic formats. My goal with this column is an extension of this research: to introduce more people to zine culture. As zine culture is fundamentally participatory, I also humbly hope to prompt more people to grab a piece of paper and make a zine.

Recommended Further Reading

Queercore: Nault, Curran. Queercore: Queer Punk Media Subculture. Routledge: New York, 2018.

Riot Grrrl: Marcus, Sara. Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution. Harper Perennial: New York, 2010.

Race Riot: Duncombe, Stephen and Tremblay, Maxwell. (editors). White Riot: Punk Rock and the Politics of Race. Verso: London, 2011.

Zines: Duncombe, Stephen. Notes From The Underground: Zines and the Politics of Alternative Culture. Microcosm: Bloomington, 2001.

Written by

Rebecca Kunin is a scholar, zine maker, drummer, and dog mom who currently resides in Bloomington, Indiana. Working on a PhD in Ethnomusicology, she does research on punk music and zine culture as they intersect with notions of identity, health, and education

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