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Zine Bakery: Digital Humanities 2025 Conference Poster

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I’ve got a conference poster at DH 2025 this week, and since I needed to attend remotely and things being what they are, I went all out on making the design Very Extra and much in the spirit of this site’s design :) Enjoy! (A full PDF version, in case you want to zoom in more than the image version below allows.)

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The Brief History of Manned Space Stations  - by Godai - Small Science Zine Collective - Printable 8.5X11 version.pdf

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CRITICAL SCIENCE & TECH ZINES AND COMICS

WHY ZINES? I use comic zines as an easily reproducible, shareable, and engaging medium to communicate how science and society interact with one another, in service of making academic STS literature more accessible and creating a more equitable science and society.
Commissions for STS-related zines are currently, see Contact tab for more information. Physical copies of existing zines are available at above. Please contact me at form below if you're interested in making bulk zine purchases for educational/nonprofit use.
WHAT ZINES? The following three zines cover the myth of scientific objectivity, how science museums and everyday science learning are systematically exclusive, and who should have a voice in shaping self-driving transportation. Read more below!

Science Under the Scope: The Objectivity of My Affection
June 2017
What determines who does science, what questions scientists ask, and who science helps and harms? This first installment of the Science Under the Scope series explores those questions and breaks down 5 ways that science may not be as objective as we're often taught it is.

Click the link below to read in full at the Free Radicals website or purchase your own copy.

Equity, Exclusion and Everyday Science Learning - Zine Edition
April 2019 This zine was a commission from Dr. Emily Dawson for the launch of the book.
An illustrated summary of Dr. Emily Dawson's book on exclusion in everyday science learning. It's not just ticket prices that keep people out of science learning spaces like science museums - it's a whole menagerie of exclusionary practices! Check out this zine to learn more...or to see cultural imperialism drawn as a slime mold.

Who's Driving? Exploring Driverless Futures
October 2019 This zine was a commission from the Driverless Futures
Driverless cars could change everything. Their developers say that they would change our world for the good, making roads safer and transportation more accessible. Is that all there is to the story though? Who currently has a hand in making choices about what this driverless future might look like, and who should?

PredPol Is...: A Guide To PredPol and Dismantling It
October 2019
The LAPD uses a predictive policing program called PredPol to claim that their policing is objective and neutral. However, PredPol's use of historic racist crime data, its focus on location-based policing in a violently segregated city, and its mere existence as a technology that must predict crime are all clear evidence to the contrary.
This zine is a collaboration with Adit Dhanushkodi and Leah Horgan.
As part of Free Radicals' partnership with Stop LAPD Spying Coalition to dismantle PredPol and all other predictive policing programs used by the LAPD, we created a short 1-sheet zine that covers the basics of PredPol.

Oh, The Places Your Data Will Go! by Data Seuss August 2019

An innocent selfie gets uploaded to Instagram and goes on a journey that's a bit more than she bargained for...

Follow our selfie on a journey through facial recognition algorithms, the corporate and state data sharing environment, and more, oh my! All in spectacular rhyming fashion.
This zine is a collaboration with Alexis Takahashi and Chrystal Li (collectively, Data Seuss)

Salt to Stars
by Center for Interdisciplinary Environmental Justice, illustrated by Sophie Wang
April 2021

As part of fighting greenwashing in the climate movement, I had the honor of illustrating this comic/infographic on the impacts of and Indigenous resistance to lithium mining for electric vehicles and so-called "renewable" energy by the Center for Interdisciplinary Environmental Justice. Check out the full thing in larger strip form (or download as 11x17 poster) as well as the rest of CIEJ's incredible Anti-Greenwashing toolkit below!

AI for Whose Good? Lessons from Community Resistance to Automation at the Port of Los Angeles
August 2023
By Sophie Wang and Taylor M. Cruz

This critical zine examines artificial intelligence (AI) and automation across Greater Los Angeles, drawing on ethnographic fieldwork of public engagement events in the LA Harbor Area and Silicon Beach. It shares the direct words of people impacted by AI systems at the Port of LA through the personal and political lenses of the authors and creators. For more information on this zine, see its dedicated page on my website HERE.

What's In A Watershed? Connection, Responsibilities, and Opportunities for Change
September 2023
This comic takes a playful approach to teaching readers about connections between us, the water, other people, and other life in and around the water, through how water travels through a watershed.

Commissioned by Capitol Region Watershed District and Springboard for the Arts

**Individual copies are available for easy purchase at my **
Physical copies of the Objectivity of My Affection comic are now available. These are printed with 100lb cover paper and robot endpapers, and contain 80 pages of critical goodness. Teachers have used the comic in classrooms from high school to university level and in courses in disciplines ranging from history to biology to sociology.

If you're interested in making a bulk purchase, please either 1) fill out the form below or 2) email sophieshenwang@gmail.com with subject line "Objectivity of My Affection," and include in the email 1) how many copies you would like to purchase, and 2) your shipping address. The comic is $15 per copy, but bulk discount rates may apply to your order. You will receive a confirmation invoice before your order is completed.

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CRITICAL SCIENCE & TECH ZINES AND COMICS WHY ZINES? I use comic zines as an easily reproducible, shareable, and engaging medium to communicate how science and society interact with one another, in service of making academic STS literature more accessible and creating a more equitable science and society.

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A collaboration of scientists, artists, students, and anyone else interested in science, this project produces small zines and web comics on a variety of topics . Read online, download zines, and share your ideas here.

Thinking of contributing your own zine? Email us at smallsciencezines (at) gmail (dot) com.

Click on images in the individual posts below to read the web comics or download the templates for printable & foldable zines. Here are some zine-folding directions for one of the more popular formats used.

Many say science is one of the most democratic forms of knowledge. At the same time, the gap between scientists and the public only seems to be widening. While the privatization and patenting of scientific knowledge increases rapidly, general scientific literacy lags woefully behind.

As easy as it is to feel like science is obscure, too difficult, and perhaps even a little boring, shrugging-off its importance in our daily lives means letting others do all of the thinking, leaving everyone else to simply be consumers of the knowledge scientists & engineers produce - as education, entertainment, and technological tools & toys. What personal role can each of us play in sharing curiosity about the natural world and the ways we come to know it?

The goal of the Small Science Collective is to get everyone thinking about science through handy and inexpensive one page mini-zines. Our contributions come from researchers, students, artists, and seriously curious folk who want to share their love of nature - from gluons to gastropods - with fidelity and creativity.

Our zines and pamphlets are distributed in subways, benches, coffee shops, and any place someone might least expect them. Perhaps catching the attention of strangers who didn't know they wanted to know more about ants, galaxies, or genes but are glad they got the unexpected chance. Print them, read them, share them. Leave them somewhere random for some stranger to pick up. The science is everyone's to share.

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A collaboration of scientists, artists, students, and anyone else interested in science, this project produces small zines and web comics on a variety of topics . Read online, download zines, and share your ideas here. Thinking of contributing your own zine? Email us at smallsciencezines (at) gmail (dot) com.

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SOMOS ZINERD, FANZINES DE CIENCIA Y CONOCIMIENTO PARA DESCARGA GRATUITA.

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An archive of mayhem-making zines and radical geographic print ephemera

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Bits in the Machine - Collective Action in Tech

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Bits in the Machine - Collective Action in Tech

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Bits in the Machine - Collective Action in Tech

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A Time Capsule of Worker's Stories in the Age of Generative AI

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Zine: ‘Strange Natures’ - Future Natures

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Zine: ‘Strange Natures’ - Future Natures

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On the Promise of the Commons

Anoushka Zoob Carter

In this podcast episode, Vandana Shiva tells the story of historical struggle against colonialism and neoliberal capitalism that involves the commodification of seeds. She explains how re-commoning of seeds is a defence of a shared ecological and human diversity.

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Zine: 'Strange Natures' - Future Natures

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A zine of art and essays on the theme of 'Strange Natures'.

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Arthur, Mathew. "Four Alleys." Visual and New Media Review, Fieldsights, Forthcoming 2020.
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Arthur, Mathew. "Speculative Matters: Making Worlds with Zines." Syllabus. Humanities 101 Public Program. University of British Columbia, 2019. http://doingsts.com.
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RELATED ARTICLES

Arthur, Mathew. "Writing Affect and Theology in Indigneous Futures." In Religion, Emotion, Sensation: Affect Theories and Theologies, edited by Karen Bray, Stephen D. Moore, 187-205. New York: Fordham University Press, 2020.
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Arthur, Mathew & Reuben Jentink. "Compos(t)ing New/Material/Education." Paper Presentation (Slides). New Materialist Reconfigurations of Higher Education, 10th Annual New Materialisms Conference, 2019.
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Arthur, Mathew & Reuben Jentink. "Composting Settler Nationalisms."
Capacious: Journal for Emerging Affect Inquiry 1, no.3 (2018): 152-82.
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VIDEO GAME

Doing Multispecies Rituals is a side-scrolling platform game and accompanying text presented at Unravelling Religion 4: Bodies and Objects at Queen's University. In gameplay, the player navigates a series of platforms, collecting talismans that prompt her to craft a sequence of ritual sayings, knowings, or doings that implicate nonhuman life and nonlife. User rituals are catalogued on the website as a generative resource for practicing multispecies world-making. These repeat performances, I hope, will inspire better stories like Marisol de Cadena's (2015) mountain stories, Thom van Dooren's (2014) extinction stories, Elizabeth Povinelli's (2016) rock stories, Anna Tsing's (2015) mushroom stories, and millennia-worth of Indigenous stories.

multispeciesrituals.com

WHAT'S NEW?

How can we learn to imagine Indigenous futures if our own speculative and "new" materialist stories of ongoing creation weave worlds dense with the relational knottings of Western natural and social scientific citational-conceptual practice? A mini-syllabus on anticolonial new materialist scholarship.

FABULATION PROJECT

The Fabulation Project is a speculative theory-making game that remixes Joseph Dumit's (2014) Implosion Project, a set of Haraway-adjacent prompts through which Dumit paces an object in order to get at its material, textual, technical, and political tangles. The game emerged from a yearly STS salon I lead, made up of a mix of multigenerational and neurodiverse attendees, including immigrants and ESL learners, activists, and Indigenous people. While the work of unpacking what worlds are imploded in an object is crucial to staying with the trouble of thorny pasts, doing so in Western analytical/conceptual language seemed to replicate colonial intellectual asymmetries, corroding hybrid or syncretic modes of knowing and shutting out non-Western ideas (see Law and Lin 2016). So, the Fabulation Project asks instead that players fabulate an object from their own situated knowledges in order to conjure alterontologies (Papadopoulos 2018) of science and technology.

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Arthur, Mathew. "Four Alleys." Visual and New Media Review, Fieldsights, Forthcoming 2020. DOWNLOAD PDF Arthur, Mathew. "Speculative Matters: Making Worlds with Zines." Syllabus. Humanities 101 Public Program. University of British Columbia, 2019. http://doingsts.com. DOWNLOAD PDF Arthur, Mathew. "Writing Affect and Theology in Indigneous Futures."

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SOMOS ZINERD, FANZINES DE CIENCIA Y CONOCIMIENTO PARA DESCARGA GRATUITA.

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So Fi Zine #14 features 14 new creative works of sociological fiction, poetry and visual art. This edition was launched on December 18, 2023 & made by digitising paper collage. Read it for free below.
Read the zine online here:

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out now! So Fi Zine #14 features 14 new creative works of sociological fiction, poetry and visual art. This edition was launched on December 18, 2023 & made by digitising paper collage. Read it for free below. Read the zine online here: sfz14-onlineDownload To print a copy for yourself, print a copy of the below...