“But what are they? That’s the first question I’m usually asked when I start to talk about zines. My initial, and probably correct, impulse is to hand over a stack of zines and let the person asking the question decide, for this is how they were introduced to me.”

Zines are a form of creation and community that prioritizes, as Duncombe says, the

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Zines can be anything from a political condemnation, a mode of processing grief and loss, an anti-capitalist manifesto, to creativity unleashed–or even, all of the above! Duncombe saw something within this medium; he saw an ‘angry idealism’ housed within these zines, a form of potential political upheaval, a way of inspiring change. Today, it is

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“Somehow these little smudged pamphlets carried with them the honesty, kindness, anger, the beautiful inarticulate articulateness, the uncompromising life…”

There is truly not a better way of putting it: the beautiful inarticulate articulateness… the way each zine is unfettered by the typical constraints of other mediums, the true freedom of

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