For July 28th, we are talking about our favorite zines.
Queering Friendships Zine by Mixed Rice Zines
This zine is a charming riso-printed booklet dedicated to exploring love and intimacy between queer friends and platonic lovers. It features submissions from queer, trans, and non-binary artists of colors. Broken Pencil also selected this zine for Group Zine of the Year in 2021.
About Mixed Rice Zines
Mixed Rice Zine is a small DIY press run by artist J Wu, featuring a mixture of voices that celebrate QTBIPOC resilience. Their zines invite queer and trans artists of color to send in writing, photography, comics, poetry, interviews, illustration and more.
Every discussion of zines will inevitably intersect with Riot Grrrl, a punk feminist movement that emerged in the late 1980s and early ’90s in reaction to pervasive sexism, racism, and homophobia in the punk music scene and in the culture at large. Emphasizing female and youth empowerment, collaborative organization, creative resistance, and DIY ethics, the Riot Grrrl movement generated hundreds of self-published zines. A sampling of zines, posters, and printed matter from the 1980s and ’90s can be found in this fabulous book, edited by Lisa Darms and published in 2013.
About the Editor
Lisa Darms is Senior Archivist at the Fales Library & Special Collections at NYU, and founder of the Fales Riot Grrrl Collection. She holds an MA in History and Archival Management from NYU, an MFA in Photography from the University of Washington, and a BA from the Evergreen State College. Her writing has been published in The Believer, Women & Performance Journal, and Archivaria. Before coming to archives she taught photography, worked as a custom photo printer, and was a member of the collaborative art group Thin Ice. Darms grew up in British Columbia, Canada.
