Zines @ Reed

There is a growing number of faculty, staff, and students actively engaged in zine making as a scholarly and social practice. Interested faculty and student groups are welcome to reach out for zine making workshops, consultations, class visits, and assignment creation. 

Why zines should be considered for instruction:

• Zines are primary sources.
• Zines are often written by marginalized and oppressed people with intersectional identities. These are the voices oftentimes missing from standard scholarly resources, due to complex peer review processes and limitations of expertise relying on education rather than experience.
• Zines humanize our research. When students read zines on their topics, they get to really hear the methodologies section that they mostly skip over. 
• Zines allow students to really think about their topics and how it relates to not only their own lives but the lives of others. Research and education should not be self serving, but rather about how that research impacts the community. 

Adapted from: https://simmons.libguides.com/zines/classroom