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What is a fanzine and why are we creating fanzines on the podcast?
If you search the web or your local library, you’ll find lots of information about what a fanzine is and how it’s been used to support liberation movements. In a nutshell, as our resident artist, Guadalupe, explains, “A fanzine is a DIY tool used to express yourself, digitally or physically, sharing whatever you are a “fan” of and letting your intuition guide you…while not having any hard expectations for how the final piece should turn out.”
The Grow Dialogue Podcast’s #fanzine project is an experiment in liberation. It’s a poetic call-to-action for our listeners to create and share!
We’re curating this intentional DIY (do it yourself) activity for our community members that combines poetic expression and activation in order to support our individual and collective liberation…in a creative way! Our intention is to invite our listeners to move from passively listening to conversations around liberation, to actively creating their own liberation project!
Here’s how you can participate:
We want you to create your own liberation project, using the Theory of Indivisibility as your inspiration. Check out the tools of indivisibility here, or rewatch our live demo to hear Sundiata break it down for us. We’re looking forward to seeing what you create with us this season! Keep in mind that this process will continue all season, and you’ll have time to ask more questions and even present your fanzine process to our community!
Join us for the first of many fanzine showcases and Q&As next week, July 21 @ 4pm ET to ask questions, share your process, feel encouraged, or to showcase your own fanzine. If you can’t make it live, no worries. Join our community to catch up on what you missed. You’ll get access to our community content and we’ll be sure to invite you to our future podcast events.
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Why this season’s featured artist uses Fanzines for her liberation!
“I love zines because they promote a “Do It Yourself” quality in a wildly expressive yet polished/editorial format. I love storytelling, reading words of inspiration, and visual literature, so it’s the perfect combination for zine creation!
I believe that creating a fanzine can support ones' liberation and support the Theory of Indivisibility because it allows the creator to say, express, publish and spread their voice independently, without censorship, while also favoring the formation and support of groups. This social aspect allows the zine to circulate and sustain itself in its fanzine ecosystems offline and/or online.”
—Guadalupe, Artist, Poet, Educator
A list of zines for inspo:
Check out some of our featured artist’s favorite zines:
* The Comet (1930) is considered the first zine in our recorded history. Edited by Raymond Arthur Palmer and published by the Science Correspondence Club of Chicago
* Lunary (2021) is Guadalupe’s most recent zine. It's a lunar calendar that also works as a journal/log of her physical and emotional body. This printed technique uses Mexican-Mayan codes. Guadalupe created this zine at Ace artist residency in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
* Riot Grrrl (1991) is a catalog of zines made by the Riot Girrrl Movement. They believed in the power of girls and women actively engaging in cultural production; specifically creating their own music and fanzines rather than following existing social norm production. The band associated with the Riot Girrrl Movement used their music and created zines to express feminist and anti-racist viewpoints.
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Images to get you started:
Need some visual inspo to get started? We’ve got you covered!
Check out this archive of visual resources that Guadalupe has collected and shared with us in her live fanzine demo.
Guadalupe’s artwork will be available for purchase soon. For now, those who join our community this month will have the chance to receive a free digital download of her “Sky Readers” photo collage series. FYI, this is one of the main images we use on our podcast cover art and zoom backgrounds 🎙🎉
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Community support:
Join our Grow Dialogue community to continue the dialogue around some of the chewy topics we’re covering in the podcast, plus receive exclusive content, discounts, and special offers.
Remember that when you join our community you get the chance to receive a free digital download of our podcast art by Argentine visual artist and educator, Guadalupe Arriegue!
Virtual liberation interventions!
You’re invited to share virtual space with us to dig deeper into your liberation work!
Join us at our next virtual podcast recording as our live in-studio guests. We'll have our 1st showcase on July 21 where those who want to share their creative process. So come with what you have, even if it’s just an idea in your mind, and keep working on it as we continue the season!
Resources:
Continue to groove to this season’s playlist as you reflect on the topics within this episode and create your own fanzine.
Our podcast producer, Maryella Marie, has curated a playlist just for you on Soundcloud.
Why Soundcloud? They are one of few music streaming platforms that has built Artist Equity into their business model. This specifically benefits (and liberates) independent artists and folx, like you, who listen to them!