Teaching Zines

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Comment by Carrie C. on March 25, 2012 at 12:20pm

Trans/Genderqueer Zine Project Call For Submissions

 

Topic: Essays, anecdotes, comix, collage, & poetry from trans and genderqueer folks telling stories of adolescence and puberty. Take that as broadly or narrowly as you'd like; literally how your body was changing and how your brain was dealing with it, or going to a dance and how that made you feel, to coming out to your family, friends, teachers & classmates.

 

Audience: 7-12th grade students.

 

Specifics: The pieces should be free of cursing and super overt sexual content.

 

Why/Purpose: Puberty and adolescence are hard for everyone but it's extra alienating and difficult when you feel alone and or radically different from everyone else. I want this zine to be an offering to trans and gender queer kids who need to see themselves in print, to know that they are not alone. I want the stories to offer comfort and hope to some young people who may be struggling. I would like the zine to be a resource for trans and gender queer students and a way to open the eyes and hearts of cisgendered students, parents, and teachers.

 

Send submissions to Brilliantmistake01@gmail.com

Please send as a basic word document with "Zine Submission" in the subject line. Art submissions should be 300 dpi scans or for bitmap line art 600 or more.

 

Send submissions by June 1, 2011. Feel free to e-mail me at Brilliantmistake01@gmail.com with any questions.

 

Thanks!

Carrie

Comment by Mikey Mitol on January 22, 2012 at 9:11am

Hello everyone,  I am part of a small cohort of college instructors who teach zine making as a sizable component of a second semester, first year composition course.  Our students each research a topic, create an individual text for the web, and then collaborate on a webzine that will incorporate all the student semester projects under one zine published exclusively for the web.  The course seems to always be "in progress," so comments about our work is appreciated. Hopefully by the end of the semester, the classes will post a link to their webines.

Comment by QueensBee Zines on October 6, 2011 at 11:45pm

Hi Zine Educators:

 

My name's Dawn. I am a former NYC public high school ESL teacher who taught zine-making to my students.  Now, I'm in library school studying to become a community college/academic librarian, hopefully.

 

Anyway, I'm currently in an information literacy pedagogy course, and doing a research process project with the following research question:

 

"How do high school teachers create effective zine projects to help students of all learning abilities improve in their writing skills?"

 

If any of you have/know of someone who has/or know of resources where I can find information related to this question, please reply to me at the following email address- 

 

senorita.wing@gmail.com

 

Thanks in advance!

Comment by Jonathan Super on August 9, 2011 at 2:28pm

Just got my zine put on the shelf at Bluestocking in NYC!!! Go grab yourself a copy for 1 dollar. http://bluestockings.com/

Comment by Jonathan Super on August 5, 2011 at 8:35am

Hey everyone!  I'm a high school english teacher and for years I have always had my students make poetry, short story and fable books (zines basically).  The kids grumble a bit, but when they work at it they tend to eventually get into it.  If anybody wants a project for students let me know and I'll help you out and if you're bored you can check out my own zine Mirrored Mitten.

Comment by Jenn Beil on July 25, 2011 at 2:18pm

I'm organizing Madison, WI Zinefest (Oct 22nd) this year and am looking for people to do workshops.  We don't really have a budget, but will try to work with people depending on there needs.  If anyone knows someone in the Midwest who would be willing to do a workshop for high school kids and/or a more advanced class, please contact me.  We are also looking for people to present on their zine and what it took to get it off the ground.  Thanks!!

Comment by QueensBee Zines on March 16, 2011 at 8:53pm

Fresh off the press: It's FruitYoga!

It's 20 pages of the total fun with fruits demonstrating yoga asanas or poses.
All illustrations were done by moi, in watercolor, with English and Sanskrit yoga asana terms.
Pages/cover were hand-sewn together.

Used some of these images to teach yoga to my ESL students! Great for language learning!

Limited edition of 50 copies.

See more images and order now on my Etsy!

 

Namaste!

Sassy Spinster

Comment by Merc on February 7, 2011 at 3:25pm

Just found out I get to teach a writing workshop at Chicago Zine Fest!! I'm so excited!  This will be my first time at a zine fest, even though I've been writing them for years.  I'm trying to teach a zine class here at home through community ed but no one is signing up for it. Wah! So now I feel happy that I get to do some teaching in Chicago, even if it's only for an hour or so. :)

 

My next idea is to try to get a zine class going in the homeschooling community.  Anyone done that?

Comment by Joshua D on November 17, 2010 at 8:05am

Hi everyone. My name is Josh and I have been teaching about zines and using zines in my courses for the past 5 years. I teach at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa and we have had some amazing projects over the years thanks to a great student interest in zines. I would love to swap info about other zine projects as I am getting ready for a new semester of zines in my class. I look forward to chatting with everyone.

Comment by Carlos Palacios Hidalgo on March 10, 2010 at 2:51pm

great work!

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