Sage Pantony

When I have the time, I'd love to start a regular zine drop-in group where folks can show up, eat snacks, and make zines (and other crafts) together. It'd be a chill, low-key space where we can learn from and teach each other.

My zine origin story is that I was documenting my transition several years ago using different mediums and needed a way to pull the pieces of my story together into a coherent narrative. The zine form offered me the perfect way to do this! I have loved making zines ever since.

Yesterday, I left a zine between two books in the Community & Culture section of a bookstore. I wonder who will come across it?

“Always created independently, either hastily or laboriously, and usually artistically and politically, zines cover topical issues in the community and usually use a cut-and-paste method that portrays an iconic punk aesthetic” (Hemphill & Leskowitz, 2012, p. 72).