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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"zines"”.
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Queer and Transgender Identity in Kansas Zines
… engages in a visual and rhetorical analysis of zines made by queer and transgender Kansans from 2020-2024. With the recent proliferation of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation and erasure of LGBTQ+ history in government materials, zines can be an alternative space for transgender and queer folks to explore …
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Seamfulness: Nova Scotian Women Witness Depression through Zines
… How do handmade, self-published booklets (or “zines”) allow for exploring this topic as embodied, emotional and critical transformative learning? To address these questions, I employ arts-informed strategies and feminist, adult education, mental health, and disability studies literatures to …
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Child-ish Books: Presenting Zines and Artist Books for Kids
<p>This Capstone seeks: to provide a review of the field of children’s literature, with a specific focus on the ways that the mainstream publishing industries are driven by market forces, embed messages of Aetonormativity, Maria Nikolajeva’s (2009) term to describe the belief that adult experiences …
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The Antigone Discourse: Zines and Blogs as Articulations of Young Women's Subjectivites
Zines and blogs written by the young women in this study are an important form of inquiry that, if considered by educators, may push us to critically question discourses of young womanhood, questions of subjectivity, and the way we engage with texts. I use readings of Antigone to shape a reading of …
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In the ruins of zine pedagogy: a narrative study of teaching with zines
… study considers the educational significance of zines—small circulation, self-published magazines—by asking how educators who teach with zines encounter and negotiate zine pedagogy. Though the literature on zines and teaching describes many potential benefits, it also describes contradictions and …
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Alternative Literacies, Resistance, and Spatial Representations in The Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Culture of Zine Publication in New Orleans
<p>Zines are small circulation media that amateurs make and distribute. Inspired by both the lack of ethnographic research on the do-it-yourself (DIY) culture of zine-making in urban studies and the growing interest in ethnographically oriented research in literacy studies, rhetoric, and …
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MOOD: A Zine Exploring the Value of Youth-Oriented Media
… evaluation of independent media ventures called zines reveals similarities to youth media in targeted age range and visual aesthetic but with more significant opportunities for genuine youth participation. Zines are countercultural spaces for any person to engage with available media and their …
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Dissolute pluralism: An ethics of queer thought
… groups, listservs and electronic forums, zines and community action research projects, participants frame the task of thought itself as collective and interactive, subject not just to evolving norms, but also to vicissitudes of duration, location, and timing, medium, ritual, and …
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Constructing Music of Rebellion in the Triumphant Empire: Punk Rock in the 1990s United States
… was critically evaluated in the pages of punk zines (short for fanzines).</p> <p>Whereas 1980s hardcore punk had become dominated by young white men and teenagers, in the 1990s, women and Latinos increasingly asserted their identities and made their experiences resisting patriarchy and …
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Hermeneutics of Residue: Archival Slime and Queer Literacy
… texts such as public graffiti, self-published zines, and underground manuals, this project explores the notion of the queer archive and its complicated entanglements with historiography, sexual and cultural literacy, and epistemology. In order to pursue to this line of inquiry, the dissertation …
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Fan fiction, fandoms, and literature: or, why it’s time to pay attention to fan fiction
… to the early days of Star Trek and fan made "zines," it is now perhaps the most visible and well known fan creation. Fan fiction has evolved from the expansions or reimaginings of the source text to involve the wide-scale participation and communication amongst fans through the writing, …
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Punk Identification With Middle-Class Values
… of political actions and printing political zines and has allowed for the changing of the value sets of the people that participate within it.
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From Slave Ship to Supermax: The Prisoner Abuse Narrative in Contemporary African American Fiction
… writings, as well as prisoners' low-circulating zines, journals, and pamphlets, I argue that the production and distribution of abuse narratives by African American fiction's captive characters illuminate the clandestine and insurgent literary practices of actual abused prisoners. This revelatory …
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Evading Representation: The Literature of Contemporary U.S. Anarchism
… literature. First, anarcha-feminist “consent zines” are considered: do-it-yourself texts that develop responses to abuse and interpersonal violence, and in so doing develop an account of an anarchist domesticity. Second, the thesis looks at communiqués and report-backs produced by anarchists …
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Performance Writing, Objects and Millennial Precarity: A co-authored PaR exploration between friends
… scores, instructions, maps, walking, knitting, zines, and audio recordings. We submit four artworks to be examined alongside the written element of the thesis, which is constructed around their analysis: House Box (2017), Desires for Labour (2019), Chapel Street or Wherever you Are (2021) and …
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Performance Writing, Objects and Millennial Precarity: A co-authored PaR exploration between friends
… scores, instructions, maps, walking, knitting, zines, and audio recordings. We submit four artworks to be examined alongside the written element of the thesis, which is constructed around their analysis: House Box (2017), Desires for Labour (2019), Chapel Street or Wherever you Are (2021) and …
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Images of Violence from Mexico: A performance art based enquiry
… documentation, some of them in the form of zines. Booklets are a simple way to show images and to distribute them among a wider audience. They are easy to transport and can be displayed in galleries, libraries, art fairs, book fairs. They demonstrate an important testimony for this research, …
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Of Gods and Girls: The Teen Superheroine in British and American Girls' Comics from 1940-1984
This thesis is a comparative study of the teenaged superheroine (the super-girl) across two comics cultures: the United States of America (US) and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK/Britain). It considers comics from 1940 to 1984, and its focus are those super-girls who …