Zines

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Zines are self-published magazines, meaning they are generally not sponsored by advertising or publishing conglomerates. Zines are written and produced by regular people usually paid for out of pocket or by sneaky stealing. They tend to look a little rougher, but perhaps possess more character, than your average corporate glossy. This means staples, xerox machines, pen drawings and typewriters are used. Often associated with punk music and/or radical political communities, zines include everything from fiction, poetry, general ranting and raving, political ideology, how-to and D.I.Y. guides, found objects,etc. etc. etc.

Zines are usually distributed for free or sold at very low prices, usually less than $5. One online source is Microcosm Publishing which sells zines on the following subjects: personal, how2, comics, political, music, history, portland, queer/trans, literary, bicycle, art, punk/lifestyle, feminism, food, parenting, travel, humor, labor, resources.

Some Knox students write zines. Two zines that are frequently distributed on Hard Knox Cafe tables are Pocket Thesaurus and "The Sweet, Sweet Tweety-Tweet of the Pterodactyl". Students participating in an independent study have produced Recycled Content, a zine containing information about the environment. Ellen Vessels wrote You Are What You Wear, a zine about clothing. Ellen Vessels and Kelli Refer have a forthcoming zine entitled Radical Politics for Dumb Blonds. S.A.S.S. produced a Guerilla Gynecology zine for the workshop of the same name. If you would like one send an email to krefer@knox.edu. Kelli Refer and Christy DeChaine compiled and wrote the Disorientation zine for the Knox 2007-8 school year. The zine was slipped under first-year suite doors.