Despite the rise of digital culture overwhelming traditional media like zines in the past, recent trends indicate a resurgence of zines as physical objects of expression. Creators and advocates are using zines to foster community, address social issues, and deeply engage in self-care. For example, Jennifer White-Johnson's workshops and zines spotlight important messages on social justice and disability advocacy. The new wave of zines aims to create alternative platforms for sharing stories and promoting collective liberation outside the confines of social media.
"By producing physical, tangible objects that don't exist on the internet, you can circumvent or avoid feeding into that machine," says Kyle Myles, a photographer who sells zines out of his Baltimore shop.
"For folks who are on the left, we better figure out how we're going to transmit information about important things to each other that is not using social media."
Jennifer White-Johnson presented a zine-making workshop; for this year's event, they distributed copies of 'A Black Neurodivergent Artist's Manifesto.' It sold out.
Making zines provides 'a powerful act of collective liberation and a radical practice of self and community care,' says White-Johnson.
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