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It is drawn up using the metaphor of a human nervous system, to ask: How can you have a spine & hold onto your values as a zine-maker, while facilitating a zine workshop? \nWe facilitated a participatory action research process to respond to this question, and a gap in literature about zine-ing as a process within workshops—particularly in Indian contexts. Over the past five years, we’ve seen zine-making rise in popularity and witnessed them being co-opted. Our research aimed to reflect on and center relational practices, crucial to zine cultures, in our practice as facilitators. \nWhat happens in the room, in fleeting and messy moments of facilitation, often remains invisible in zine studies. The role of the zine workshop facilitator, and power dynamics given the medium’s anarchist roots, has not been studied in the Indian context. Our zine responds to this gap by using the metaphor of a spine to map what facilitators need before, during, and after workshops. Each “vertebra” reflects embodied knowledge: preparing, holding space, navigating disruption, and sustaining relationships. \nThis zine is both a facilitator’s guide and a scholarly intervention—an iterative toolkit that reframes zine-ing as relational practice grounded in care, play, and accountability.", "publicationTitle": "Unbound: A Journal of Digital Scholarship", "publisher": "", "place": "", "date": "2026-03-26", "volume": "4", "issue": "1", "section": "", "partNumber": "", "partTitle": "", "pages": "", "series": "", "seriesTitle": "", "seriesText": "", "journalAbbreviation": "", "DOI": "10.12794/journals.ujds.v4i1.361", "citationKey": "collectiveZineWorkshopFacilitators2026a", "url": "https://journals.library.unt.edu/index.php/unbound/article/view/361", "accessDate": "2026-03-27T21:59:01Z", "PMID": "", "PMCID": "", "ISSN": "2687-9018", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "", "language": "en", "libraryCatalog": "journals.library.unt.edu", "callNumber": "", "rights": "Copyright (c) 2026 Zinedebaad Collective, Riya Behl, Shruti Singh, Chetana Pai", "extra": "", "tags": [], "collections": [], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2026-03-27T21:59:01Z", "dateModified": "2026-03-28T14:54:20Z" } }, { "key": "VJNCCEGY", "version": 4545, "library": { "type": "group", "id": 252454, "name": "Zine studies", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/zine_studies", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/252454/items/VJNCCEGY", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/zine_studies/items/VJNCCEGY", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "createdByUser": { "id": 801619, "username": "jennafreedman", "name": "Jenna Freedman", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/jennafreedman", "type": "text/html" } } }, "creatorSummary": "Sandy", "parsedDate": "2026-03-26", "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "VJNCCEGY", "version": 4545, "itemType": "journalArticle", "title": "Creative Zinergy: Student-led Zine Workshops and Research in an Academic Library", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Jillian", "lastName": "Sandy" } ], "abstractNote": "This zine discusses a collaborative research project with a student that provided a foundation for successful zine initiatives in an academic library. Though the team at Binghamton University Libraries was aware of zines and zine-making on campus, we had little success with zine workshops…until we worked with a student on a research project for the entirety of an academic term. Our student researcher participated in the Libraries’ Research Scholars program in spring of 2025 to (a) find research on zines in academic libraries and curricula and (b) plan, host, and assess zine workshops. This work led to an expansion of zine offerings in our libraries, including building a teaching collection, a zine supply cart, and hosting zine-making workshops for classes. We are at a launching point and hope to pursue further initiatives such as zine collecting, expanding the types of tools and materials available, and additional outreach to teaching faculty. Ultimately, our goal is for students to feel empowered to create and publish through non-traditional avenues and to challenge the idea that particular topics and voices don’t belong in academic discussion. This zine outlines the research project and its results, gives suggestions for others beginning zine-making initiatives in academic libraries, and provides additional information resources.", "publicationTitle": "Unbound: A Journal of Digital Scholarship", "publisher": "", "place": "", "date": "2026-03-26", "volume": "4", "issue": "1", "section": "", "partNumber": "", "partTitle": "", "pages": "", "series": "", "seriesTitle": "", "seriesText": "", "journalAbbreviation": "", "DOI": "10.12794/journals.ujds.v4i1.354", "citationKey": "sandyCreativeZinergyStudentled2026a", "url": "https://journals.library.unt.edu/index.php/unbound/article/view/354", "accessDate": "2026-03-27T21:59:01Z", "PMID": "", "PMCID": "", "ISSN": "2687-9018", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "Creative Zinergy", "language": "en", "libraryCatalog": "journals.library.unt.edu", "callNumber": "", "rights": "Copyright (c) 2026 Jillian Sandy", "extra": "", "tags": [], "collections": [], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2026-03-27T21:59:01Z", "dateModified": "2026-03-28T14:54:20Z" } }, { "key": "R3QYWUPE", "version": 4548, "library": { "type": "group", "id": 252454, "name": "Zine studies", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/zine_studies", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/252454/items/R3QYWUPE", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/zine_studies/items/R3QYWUPE", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "createdByUser": { "id": 801619, "username": "jennafreedman", "name": "Jenna Freedman", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/jennafreedman", "type": "text/html" } } }, "creatorSummary": "Keralis and Frazier", "parsedDate": "2026-03-26", "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "R3QYWUPE", "version": 4548, "itemType": "journalArticle", "title": "Welcome to Academizines!", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Spencer", "lastName": "Keralis" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Zach", "lastName": "Frazier" } ], "abstractNote": "As we were wrapping up production of this special issue, a group of Texas anti-ICE activists were convicted of charges including providing support for terrorism, attempted murder of a police officer, and rioting. Prosecutors alleged the defendants were part of “an antifa cell,” the first time anti-fascist protestors were charged under U.S. anti-terrorism statutes. One member of the group was charged with “corruptly concealing a document or record” for the possession and transport of leftwing and anti-fascist zines and pamphlets. It should go without saying that we don’t condone shooting a police officer. But setting aside the absurdity of designating antifa a terrorist organization, which as Sam Levine rightly notes in The Guardian, is “not an organization but instead used to describe a constellation of leftwing beliefs,” we absolutely endorse the right to peaceably assemble to protest injustice and state violence, and support the clear 1st Amendment right to write, print, and distribute zines with any content.\nIt’s a little bit stunning, in this age convulsive media shift, the age of agentic AI, LLMs, and TikTok, to find zines front and center in a criminal case that will no doubt figure as a watershed in 1st Amendment and anti-terrorism law as it wends its way through appeals. It certainly wasn’t on our Bingo card as we conceived of this special issue. But this incident reveals a truth that underlies the urgency of the work we and the international contributors are doing here: when oppressive regimes threaten the self-representation of socially and politically marginalized and stigmatized communities, zines emerge as a powerful implement of resistance and self-expression.\nFor this special issue, we invited proposals from contributors across the disciplines to share their scholarly and creative work in zine form. While academics may not seem to be a marginalized or stigmatized group, and we readily acknowledge the many ways in which we do dwell in privilege, there are a number of factors that threaten freedom of expression and scholarly independence both in the US and globally. Populist authoritarian movements around the world exercise control by encouraging their followers to be contemptuous of expertise and evidence, and foster anti-intellectualism as a means of undermining critique and resistance. This, along with the active campaign against diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in higher education, has created a political and cultural environment hostile to academics. \nEconomic forces are also at work to limit the impact of academic freedom. Corporate interests in academic publishing have a stranglehold on the pipeline to publication, supported by myths of prestige and meritocracy, and sustained by the free labor of scholars for authorship, peer review, and editorial work. And more insidiously, generative AI is unreflectively supported by university administrators eager to cash in on the hype, and is trained by extracting the published work of academics, without their consent. These corporate interests are ultimately inimical to academic freedom and hostile to critical inquiry. \nAs we describe in the Academizines! Manifesto that opens this special issue, zines have the potential to create wider publics for academic scholarship. We follow Jentery Sayers, Natalie Loveless, Anastasia Salter, and Emilie Johnson in encouraging acts of research-creation and critical making. And we optimistically suggest that, by sharing our work outside the walled garden of Big Academic Publishing, we can also overcome some of the hostility for higher learning and scholarship - making our work more accessible can make it less threatening.\nThe zines assembled here range from meta-zines that reflect on the process and materiality of zines, to critical auto-ethnography in the form of personal or perzines, to straightforward scholarly essays in zine form. There are several zines created by librarians to highlight their services and collections, as well as zines that explore the nature of zine librarianship and the particular care such work requires. There are zines here that are purely visual, and zines that are carefully designed in software, and zines that are hand written and hand drawn. The material forms of the zines are as diverse as their creators and their subject matter, taking the form of single-sheet minizines and half-letter booklets, and there’s even an accordion book. To be as inclusive as possible, we encouraged our contributors to make a good faith best effort at making the digital copies of their zines accessible, recognizing that there are limits to digital accessibility for both manuscript and purely visual forms. To level the field among contributors, we deliberately did not include credentials or institutional affiliations. If a work is vital and engaging, it shouldn’t matter if it was created by an undergraduate, a professor, or a civilian. The work is the work. \nThe development of this issue has been slower than we had hoped. The world is on fire. We’ve experienced a range of personal traumas and losses while this work has been in gestation, and our brains and bodies have responded to that stress in various ways. While the behind the scenes work of metadata, document compression, and copy editing went on, a vibrant community formed among the creators on a Discord server and the conversations there have sustained us as we have toiled in the background. We’re grateful to our contributors for their kind forbearance. We think what follows in this issue is worth the wait.\nFor us, this issue is a celebration of our combined over half a century of engagement with zines as a creative form. It is a convergence of our creative, scholarly, and personal lives. We hope both our contributors and our readers find something here that challenges them, uplifts them, and from which they can learn and grow as scholars and creatives. So please, read on, enjoy, and then go make your own Academizines!", "publicationTitle": "Unbound: A Journal of Digital Scholarship", "publisher": "", "place": "", "date": "2026-03-26", "volume": "4", "issue": "1", "section": "", "partNumber": "", "partTitle": "", "pages": "", "series": "", "seriesTitle": "", "seriesText": "", "journalAbbreviation": "", "DOI": "10.12794/journals.ujds.v4i1.393", "citationKey": "keralisWelcomeAcademizines2026a", "url": "https://journals.library.unt.edu/index.php/unbound/article/view/393", "accessDate": "2026-03-27T21:59:01Z", "PMID": "", "PMCID": "", "ISSN": "2687-9018", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "", "language": "en", "libraryCatalog": "journals.library.unt.edu", "callNumber": "", "rights": "Copyright (c) 2026 Spencer D. C. Keralis, Zach Frazier", "extra": "", "tags": [], "collections": [], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2026-03-27T21:59:01Z", "dateModified": "2026-03-28T14:54:19Z" } }, { "key": "E9AC5VIR", "version": 4547, "library": { "type": "group", "id": 252454, "name": "Zine studies", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/zine_studies", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/252454/items/E9AC5VIR", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/zine_studies/items/E9AC5VIR", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "createdByUser": { "id": 801619, "username": "jennafreedman", "name": "Jenna Freedman", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/jennafreedman", "type": "text/html" } } }, "creatorSummary": "Frazier and Keralis", "parsedDate": "2026-03-26", "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "E9AC5VIR", "version": 4547, "itemType": "journalArticle", "title": "Academizines! A Manifesto", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Zach", "lastName": "Frazier" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Spencer", "lastName": "Keralis" } ], "abstractNote": "The scholarly communications ecosystem is collapsing. Hopelessly polluted by capitalist and neoliberal priorities for research and higher education, the trad publishing ecosystem is now toxic to scholars at every stage of their professional lives. We must abandon this swamp to survive. We must seize the means of scholarly production from corporate publishers and the scholarly journals beholden to them.\nMicropublishing has long been the weapon of choice for marginalized and stigmatized communities to combat the oppression of corporate publication. The hegemony of capitalist interests in publishing has silenced and exploited minority creators through tokenistic selection processes and outright censorship.\nWe reject the premise that micropublishing lacks the rigor of so-called prestige publishing, and further reject corporate metrics for scholarly impact like citation  indices and other quantitative measures, in favor of alternative metrics assessing volume of circulation and engagement, and qualitative means of assessing impact. \nWe offer zines as a powerful form of public writing. We believe that creating wider publics for academic scholarship by making our work more accessible is a greater measure of scholarly impact and can improve goodwill for higher education and research in these anti-intellectual times.", "publicationTitle": "Unbound: A Journal of Digital Scholarship", "publisher": "", "place": "", "date": "2026-03-26", "volume": "4", "issue": "1", "section": "", "partNumber": "", "partTitle": "", "pages": "", "series": "", "seriesTitle": "", "seriesText": "", "journalAbbreviation": "", "DOI": "10.12794/journals.ujds.v4i1.382", "citationKey": "frazierAcademizinesManifesto2026a", "url": "https://journals.library.unt.edu/index.php/unbound/article/view/382", "accessDate": "2026-03-27T21:59:01Z", "PMID": "", "PMCID": "", "ISSN": "2687-9018", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "", "language": "en", "libraryCatalog": "journals.library.unt.edu", "callNumber": "", "rights": "Copyright (c) 2026 Zach Frazier, Spencer D. C. Keralis", "extra": "", "tags": [], "collections": [], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2026-03-27T21:59:01Z", "dateModified": "2026-03-28T14:54:19Z" } }, { "key": "CQJKH6GX", "version": 4544, "library": { "type": "group", "id": 252454, "name": "Zine studies", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/zine_studies", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/252454/items/CQJKH6GX", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/zine_studies/items/CQJKH6GX", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "createdByUser": { "id": 801619, "username": "jennafreedman", "name": "Jenna Freedman", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/jennafreedman", "type": "text/html" } } }, "creatorSummary": "Walker", "parsedDate": "2026-03-26", "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "CQJKH6GX", "version": 4544, "itemType": "journalArticle", "title": "Zine and Heard: PhD Research About Survivors of the Mental Health System (can) Address Epistemic Injustice via Zines.", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Tasmin", "lastName": "Walker" } ], "abstractNote": "This zine outlines PhD research focused on how survivors of the mental health system (can) address epistemic injustice via zines. It focuses on creative crafty visual and non-linear zine qualities as well as zine community as an alternative epistemic environment. I pay particular attention to the sense of liberty survivors describe in the zine community, the way in which knowledge is evaluated, and authority is awarded and the culture of valuing intersectional subjective knowledge. I argue that the zine qualities described, along with the power dynamics, practice and culture of the zine community, enable survivors to articulate and share knowledge based on lived experience. I also argue that creating and sharing knowledge via zines can serve protective functions and that the zine community provides survivors with an opportunity to have our knowledge appropriately valued. The zine is a combination of text and illustrations, which were created through a combination of drawing and painting.", "publicationTitle": "Unbound: A Journal of Digital Scholarship", "publisher": "", "place": "", "date": "2026-03-26", "volume": "4", "issue": "1", "section": "", "partNumber": "", "partTitle": "", "pages": "", "series": "", "seriesTitle": "", "seriesText": "", "journalAbbreviation": "", "DOI": "10.12794/journals.ujds.v4i1.344", "citationKey": "walkerZineHeardPhD2026a", "url": "https://journals.library.unt.edu/index.php/unbound/article/view/344", "accessDate": "2026-03-27T21:59:01Z", "PMID": "", "PMCID": "", "ISSN": "2687-9018", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "Zine and Heard", "language": "en", "libraryCatalog": "journals.library.unt.edu", "callNumber": "", "rights": "Copyright (c) 2026 Tasmin Walker", "extra": "", "tags": [], "collections": [], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2026-03-27T21:59:01Z", "dateModified": "2026-03-28T14:54:19Z" } }, { "key": "EFV3XIGS", "version": 4543, "library": { "type": "group", "id": 252454, "name": "Zine studies", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/zine_studies", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/252454/items/EFV3XIGS", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/zine_studies/items/EFV3XIGS", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "createdByUser": { "id": 801619, "username": "jennafreedman", "name": "Jenna Freedman", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/jennafreedman", "type": "text/html" } } }, "creatorSummary": "Williams", "parsedDate": "2026-03-26", "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "EFV3XIGS", "version": 4543, "itemType": "journalArticle", "title": "Crunching Around: Zines and DIY Digital Scholarship", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Patrick", "lastName": "Williams" } ], "abstractNote": "Crunching Around: Zines and DIY Scholarship documents and reflects upon work the author presented at the 2025 meeting of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing. It is based on a panel presentation entitled “Exploring DIY Geographies and Communities in Broken Pencil and Punk Planet Using Digital Methods,\" and focuses on both proprietary and open digital scholarship tools to explore zine archives and to locate entry points and workflows for engaging with zines' digital afterlives. The zine narrates the author's ideas and thought process for comparative work with ProQuest TDM Studio's geospatial analysis of Broken Pencil, the storied Canadian metazine, and his own homebrew processing of Punk Planet, a U.S. publication similar in content and audience, available on the Internet Archive. The author considers some affordances and tensions in working with established and do-it-yourself interfaces for doing digital scholarship in Zine Studies, concluding that the messy, open-ended, and playful ethos of zine culture is a suitable match for hands-on experimental approaches and that “crunching around” in the code, data, and zine content offers us ways of knowing typically occluded by closed corporate platforms.", "publicationTitle": "Unbound: A Journal of Digital Scholarship", "publisher": "", "place": "", "date": "2026-03-26", "volume": "4", "issue": "1", "section": "", "partNumber": "", "partTitle": "", "pages": "", "series": "", "seriesTitle": "", "seriesText": "", "journalAbbreviation": "", "DOI": "10.12794/journals.ujds.v4i1.340", "citationKey": "williamsCrunchingZinesDIY2026a", "url": "https://journals.library.unt.edu/index.php/unbound/article/view/340", "accessDate": "2026-03-27T21:59:01Z", "PMID": "", "PMCID": "", "ISSN": "2687-9018", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "Crunching Around", "language": "en", "libraryCatalog": "journals.library.unt.edu", "callNumber": "", "rights": "Copyright (c) 2026 Patrick Williams", "extra": "", "tags": [], "collections": [], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2026-03-27T21:59:01Z", "dateModified": "2026-03-28T14:54:19Z" } }, { "key": "UJNJ74L3", "version": 4542, "library": { "type": "group", "id": 252454, "name": "Zine studies", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/zine_studies", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/252454/items/UJNJ74L3", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/zine_studies/items/UJNJ74L3", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "createdByUser": { "id": 801619, "username": "jennafreedman", "name": "Jenna Freedman", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/jennafreedman", "type": "text/html" } } }, "creatorSummary": "Faccin-Herman and Wigard", "parsedDate": "2026-03-26", "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "UJNJ74L3", "version": 4542, "itemType": "journalArticle", "title": "Exploring Zine Making as Critical Dialogue", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Vitoria", "lastName": "Faccin-Herman" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Justin", "lastName": "Wigard" } ], "abstractNote": "This academic zine was generated through a semester-long weekly dialogue between two assistant professors at the University of North Dakota. Faccin-Herman, Art and Design, considers zines a flexible pedagogical tool that engages mind and body in creating a tangible object. Wigard, English, approaches zines from a comics studies background (literary heritage, visual communication, small press comix) and digital humanities methodology (archiving, circulation, digitization). Rather than a straightforward critical conversation on pedagogy between two colleagues, this endeavor used the zine as a medium to creatively concretize responses, foster interdisciplinary conversations, and capture the experiences of being early career faculty at an R-1, rural university. In other words, the zine is a recording of weekly conversations between Faccin-Herman and Wigard conducted through campus mail, with each educator contributing to the zine in response to each other’s prompts. This can be seen in the accordion-style format of the zine, where each page represents a back-and-forth between the scholars, the form unfolding as the semesterly conversation does. In this way, the scholars not only practice what Ratto and others might term “Critical-Making,” but visually explore their pedagogical practice with and through the zine. Drawing on the work of cartoonists Lynda Barry, Kay Sohini, and Meghan Parker, book creator Esther K. Smith, and scholar Matt Ratto, the project (we hope) demonstrates the vital potential of the zine for academic purposes: as scholarly record, as pedagogical device, as interdisciplinary collaboration.  \nA coda: Faccin-Herman and Wigard met on their first day at UND, standing in line for coffee and idly striking up a conversation when, quite organically, we discovered we both worked with zines. Yet, despite working a quarter-mile from each other’s offices (literally, separated by the English Coulee), teaching within the same institutional College of Arts & Sciences, and spending a year together in a first-year faculty cohort, Faccin-Herman and Wigard had not previously had an opportunity to discuss pedagogy with one another in depth, let alone how each incorporates zines into curricula. Our responses and conversations are genuine, truly passing back and forth through campus mail.  This project encouraged us to connect with our academic specialists and librarians, and we have begun working on an archival collection of regional Midwest zines. 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The zines stem from a community-centred project in partnership with Jelena Vermillion, Executive Director of the Sex Workers’ Action Program (SWAP), Hamilton. Employing a zine as participatory action research methodology (French and Curd 2021; Kindon et al. 2007), the project documented and mobilized expertise drawn from lived experience, positioning participants as knowledge holders (Cornish et al. 2023; Lovata, 2008) whose insights challenge dominant assumptions about what digital safety looks like and who is considered at risk. \nMainstream digital security frameworks treat end users generically. We all face common vulnerabilities. By practising good ‘cyber hygiene’, we strengthen our first line of defence and protect ourselves. In this approach, cyber risks and threats are often seen as individual choices, shifting responsibility onto end users (Basu & Biddolph 2025) This project steps back from treating digital security as a universal resource that benefits everyone equally, aiming to examine the digital insecurities and threats that are often overlooked by mainstream frameworks (Bengtsson Meuller, 2023; Chen et al. 2022; Cristiano et al. 2023; Gajjala et al. 2026).\nHow do digital security frameworks identify end users who already face social stigma? What are the varied impacts of digital safety and security? How are digital (in)securities connected to the experience of material security and access to basic necessities? How do people who rely on social services, lack stable housing, and engage in street-based sex work come to be disproportionately subjected to invasive and unwarranted surveillance that is routinely justified as ‘protection’ or ‘security’? More broadly, this project asks whether reorganizing our understanding of digital security to include the social dimensions of insecurities and vulnerabilities alongside the technical ones can help shift where accountability is placed.\nFrom January to May 2025, we hosted 11 workshops on Thursday evenings at the YWCA in downtown Hamilton, drawing roughly 220 participants. The first 7 sessions focused on creative practices such as collaging and blackout poetry, each guided by a set of prompts. The final 4 workshops shifted to reviewing rough zine drafts and gathering participant feedback to inform the final design. Across the 7 content generation workshops, the prompts moved from broad questions about safety and security to more specific reflections on participants’ experiences in digital environments. Rather than impose fixed definitions of digital safety, security, or harm, we intentionally kept these concepts open. Our goal was to understand how participants themselves experience, articulate, and interpret these concepts. Although we developed a plan for each workshop, we approached the workshops iteratively. We prioritized keeping our data generation methods responsive to participants’ needs and engagement (Benjamin-Thomas et al. 2018). As a result, we returned to collaging multiple times because it proved to be the most accessible, comfortable, and generative method for our participant community.\nAcross the four-volume series, the zines bring together safety and security strategies, calls to action, shared experiences, anecdotes, and striking visuals, some of which were remixed during the design process. Because all content was generated directly through the workshops, the material reflects participants’ own language, insights, and priorities. While the volumes are interconnected, each can also be read on its own, a structure that supports ease of reproducibility. Together, the volumes capture distinct ways that safety and security manifest in participants’ lives, with each subtitle drawn from statements and observations shared by participants. \nVolume 1, Technology Gives You Freedom, moves from the emancipatory potential of technology to the vulnerabilities and harms participants encounter online and offline, establishing the relationship between material and digital forms of security and safety. Volume 2, Insecurity Is Good Business, examines how insecurity is built into technological infrastructures, from social media platforms to law enforcement systems, and how people are secured in uneven and inequitable ways. Volume 3, We All Feel Secure Until We Are Not, builds on this analysis by exploring the business model of insecurity that underpins the internet, while also highlighting the ‘differential vulnerabilities’ (Pierce et al. 2018) participants face, including reflections on the City of Hamilton ransomware attack (Beattie 2024) and the prioritization of technological development over core forms of social security such as housing, income, food access, mental health supports, and childcare. Volume 4, Digital Safety Doesn’t Mean You’re Safe, turns toward mitigation strategies used by street-based sex workers and expands into broader questions about what constitutes safety and security, emphasizing that these concepts are not universal. It surfaces key insights into potential forms of (digital) safety that could make street-based work safer, offering an open-ended proposition about what becomes prioritized and what is overlooked when we talk about safety and security.\nThe zine format was indispensable to the project. First and foremost, we needed a form that could cohere individual experiences into a collective narrative while accommodating multiple modes of expression, including visual and textual content. We also needed a form that could be disseminated quickly, easily reproduced and shared, and that could carry community knowledge outward (Baker and Cantillon 2022; Lovata 2018). The zine form offered all of this while also challenging traditional academic conventions about who produces knowledge and whose expertise counts (Vong 2016). We wanted the immediate public output to be something participants could recognize themselves in, take ownership of, and be proud of. A core aim of Trustpassing is to function for its readers as “engines of critical engagement, self-questioning, and renewal” (Joseph and Sawyer 2023, 13) by foregrounding participant knowledge and expertise, inviting critical reflection, and opening space for alternative ways of understanding digital safety, security, and power.", "publicationTitle": "Unbound: A Journal of Digital Scholarship", "publisher": "", "place": "", "date": "2026-03-26", "volume": "4", "issue": "1", "section": "", "partNumber": "", "partTitle": "", "pages": "", "series": "", "seriesTitle": "", "seriesText": "", "journalAbbreviation": "", "DOI": "10.12794/journals.ujds.v4i1.378", "citationKey": "zeffiroTrustpassing2026a", "url": "https://journals.library.unt.edu/index.php/unbound/article/view/378", "accessDate": "2026-03-27T21:59:01Z", "PMID": "", "PMCID": "", "ISSN": "2687-9018", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "", "language": "en", "libraryCatalog": "journals.library.unt.edu", "callNumber": "", "rights": "Copyright (c) 2026 Andrea Zeffiro", "extra": "", "tags": [], "collections": [], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2026-03-27T21:59:01Z", "dateModified": "2026-03-28T14:54:17Z" } }, { "key": "5PG3UUFG", "version": 4530, "library": { "type": "group", "id": 252454, "name": "Zine studies", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/zine_studies", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/252454/items/5PG3UUFG", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/zine_studies/items/5PG3UUFG", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "createdByUser": { "id": 801619, "username": "jennafreedman", "name": "Jenna Freedman", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/jennafreedman", "type": "text/html" } } }, "creatorSummary": "Thompson", "parsedDate": "2026-03-26", "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "5PG3UUFG", "version": 4530, "itemType": "journalArticle", "title": "Inflammatory States: Doing Ethnography Where It Hurts", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Andie", "lastName": "Thompson" } ], "abstractNote": "This zine chronicles the stakes of ethnographic research at home, both on and under stress in Portland, Oregon, between 2019-2022. During this time, I was improvising an ethnographic study of toxic stress within maternal, fetal and reproductive science but when not following scientists and their work, I found that my daily life, activism, and community activities were just as important to understanding toxic stress as the neatly siloed spaces that I had identified as “fieldsites” within communities of scientific practice. As an ethnographer, I seek “to make the familiar strange and the strange familiar” in how I write stories from my fieldwork. But how does one do this when your field is your home, the world you're describing is toxic– inherently destructive to life, and the stakes of the social relations that hold it together are deeply personal?\nAmidst covid-19 lockdowns and racial justice protests, “the field”, for me, became a sort of “sweaty concept” (Ahmed, 2014), with vague boundaries and inadequate language to describe the embodied exposure patterns that underlie social knowledge production. In the vein of the uncomfortable insider (Anderson, 2021) and the vulnerable observer (Behar, 1996), this experiment in ethnographic writing explores the ways the “self” and “the field” become diffuse, non-mutually exclusive facets of anthropological research through a bricolage of interconnected stories relating to emotion, identity, and the narration of ethnography done at home. Anthropologist Chelsey Carter has described research under such conditions as a “homework ethnography” (2019): research in a place where commitments to relational networks and a deep longing for a better future conflicts with models of academic knowledge production. \nIn an effort to find a way to tell ‘homework’ stories and distill down an understanding of the stakes involved as an ethnographer of home, I’ve made this zine, “Inflammatory States: Doing ethnography where it hurts”. The format of the zine allows ethnographic writing to say what matters most to me and the community I come from in Portland, Oregon without pressure to couch it in conversation with academic literature and forcing a coherency between the theory, stories, and method (see Vong, 2016). The zine contains 5 volumes, each taking up a relational interface between “stress” and ethnographic fields, through a visual collage and short essays: stress and the city, stress and the pandemic, stress and the public, stress and the body, and stress and the home.\nAs a long-form composition, the zine becomes a palimpsest, an intentional reprinting of knowledge through layers of rich connection to perceive a place and time with greater fidelity. As an experiment in ethnographic writing, this zine is a form of “mediated public ethnography” (Vannini & Mosher, 2013), responding to public interests in a format that can be circulated back to the community it describes. For me, this zine became a place to document the rage and love I feel towards the place that I hold as home in my heart and explicitly link the systems responsible for cultivating toxic stress accountable for the harm they do using personal experience, archival and document analysis. For the reader, this zine provides a glimpse into an ethnographic atmosphere, a ‘feeling document’ (see Rowsell and Abrams, 2022) on the toxicity of stress from my perspective and what it takes to do research at home.", "publicationTitle": "Unbound: A Journal of Digital Scholarship", "publisher": "", "place": "", "date": "2026-03-26", "volume": "4", "issue": "1", "section": "", "partNumber": "", "partTitle": "", "pages": "", "series": "", "seriesTitle": "", "seriesText": "", "journalAbbreviation": "", "DOI": "10.12794/journals.ujds.v4i1.350", "citationKey": "thompsonInflammatoryStatesDoing2026a", "url": "https://journals.library.unt.edu/index.php/unbound/article/view/350", "accessDate": "2026-03-27T21:59:01Z", "PMID": "", "PMCID": "", "ISSN": "2687-9018", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "Inflammatory States", "language": "en", "libraryCatalog": "journals.library.unt.edu", "callNumber": "", "rights": "Copyright (c) 2026 Andie Thompson", "extra": "", "tags": [], "collections": [], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2026-03-27T21:59:01Z", "dateModified": "2026-03-28T14:54:17Z" } }, { "key": "JLS2QYMN", "version": 4536, "library": { "type": "group", "id": 252454, "name": "Zine studies", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/zine_studies", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/252454/items/JLS2QYMN", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/zine_studies/items/JLS2QYMN", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "createdByUser": { "id": 801619, "username": "jennafreedman", "name": "Jenna Freedman", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/jennafreedman", "type": "text/html" } } }, "creatorSummary": "Barnewitz", "parsedDate": "2026-03-26", "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "JLS2QYMN", "version": 4536, "itemType": "journalArticle", "title": "(What Makes You) Come Alive? Notes on an Embodied Pedagogy", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Max", "lastName": "Barnewitz" } ], "abstractNote": "At the end of the Fall 2024 semester, I asked my class of freshmen honors students to answer in zine form “What Makes You Come Alive?” The question draws from philosopher Howard Thurman’s urgent message and Corita Kent’s vibrant call to action, “Come Alive” (1967). The fill-in-the-blank zine asks students to engage their inner Sendakian “wild things” and playfully answer to their deepest, wildest desires. The honors STEM majors were alarmed by the pathos of the task, but came away with shared empathy and increased connection with their peers. Zines have been a staple in my classrooms for their ability to engage embodied creativity and transform communities that honor diverse experiences. In my illustration courses, after a day each semester spent deconstructing AI generated images, we retreat to the library’s zine archive, pour over the fragile, hand-made works, and then sit and make our own zines, relishing the ragged edges and scratchy writing that could never be born of AI. As a trans arts scholar deeply invested in diversity and equity, my current scholarship is devoted to activating zines – in college level courses, youth summer camps, and circles of queer adult organizers – to help engage the classroom as an assemblage that resists fascist infrastructure, AI, and institutional censorship. This zine expands on four themes – fear, embodiment, play, and work – to harness the possibilities of zines in the classroom and build brave and embodied communities for shared empathy and powerful self-expression.", "publicationTitle": "Unbound: A Journal of Digital Scholarship", "publisher": "", "place": "", "date": "2026-03-26", "volume": "4", "issue": "1", "section": "", "partNumber": "", "partTitle": "", "pages": "", "series": "", "seriesTitle": "", "seriesText": "", "journalAbbreviation": "", "DOI": "10.12794/journals.ujds.v4i1.331", "citationKey": "barnewitzWhatMakesYou2026a", "url": "https://journals.library.unt.edu/index.php/unbound/article/view/331", "accessDate": "2026-03-27T21:59:01Z", "PMID": "", "PMCID": "", "ISSN": "2687-9018", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "(What Makes You) Come Alive?", "language": "en", "libraryCatalog": "journals.library.unt.edu", "callNumber": "", "rights": "Copyright (c) 2026 Max Barnewitz", "extra": "", "tags": [], "collections": [], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2026-03-27T21:59:01Z", "dateModified": "2026-03-28T14:54:16Z" } }, { "key": "L9VG6T2J", "version": 4535, "library": { "type": "group", "id": 252454, "name": "Zine studies", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/zine_studies", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/252454/items/L9VG6T2J", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/zine_studies/items/L9VG6T2J", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "createdByUser": { "id": 801619, "username": "jennafreedman", "name": "Jenna Freedman", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/jennafreedman", "type": "text/html" } } }, "creatorSummary": "Mandell", "parsedDate": "2026-03-26", "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "L9VG6T2J", "version": 4535, "itemType": "journalArticle", "title": "Gunk Ink Zine", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Hinda", "lastName": "Mandell" } ], "abstractNote": "What happens when we turn a violent tool of death into a means of critical self expression? In the fall of 2023, students in my Opinion Media class produced a class zine that used \"gun-ink\" from a decomposed AR-15 assault rifle that was turned into grey pigment by the North-Carolina artist Thomas Little. The ink was high in iron, and therefore had the scent of blood. Students in the class each had one page in the zine to write true-to-them personal stories about their experience with gun violence in the U.S. They used the ink to illustrate their work. The zines were risograph-printed by Rathaus Press in Rochester, New York.", "publicationTitle": "Unbound: A Journal of Digital Scholarship", "publisher": "", "place": "", "date": "2026-03-26", "volume": "4", "issue": "1", "section": "", "partNumber": "", "partTitle": "", "pages": "", "series": "", "seriesTitle": "", "seriesText": "", "journalAbbreviation": "", "DOI": "10.12794/journals.ujds.v4i1.389", "citationKey": "mandellGunkInkZine2026a", "url": "https://journals.library.unt.edu/index.php/unbound/article/view/389", "accessDate": "2026-03-27T21:59:01Z", "PMID": "", "PMCID": "", "ISSN": "2687-9018", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "", "language": "en", "libraryCatalog": "journals.library.unt.edu", "callNumber": "", "rights": "Copyright (c) 2026 Hinda Mandell", "extra": "", "tags": [], "collections": [], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2026-03-27T21:59:01Z", "dateModified": "2026-03-28T14:54:16Z" } }, { "key": "T3VW34VD", "version": 4529, "library": { "type": "group", "id": 252454, "name": "Zine studies", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/zine_studies", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/252454/items/T3VW34VD", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/zine_studies/items/T3VW34VD", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "createdByUser": { "id": 801619, "username": "jennafreedman", "name": "Jenna Freedman", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/jennafreedman", "type": "text/html" } } }, "creatorSummary": "Karpinski and Zines", "parsedDate": "2026-03-26", "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "T3VW34VD", "version": 4529, "itemType": "journalArticle", "title": "The Ghosts of Times Square: A Zine Exploring Representations of Times Square through Film", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Kel R.", "lastName": "Karpinski" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Queer Sailors", "lastName": "Zines" } ], "abstractNote": "My zines are often an extension of my research—either a jumping off point or a way to create a more visual project (or both). They are in their own way a form of excess - they are often too scandalous, too smutty, too much — everything that is spilling out of the margins.\nMy zines and research focus on lesser known queer histories, trying to highlight them and bring them to a new audience and new generations.\nUsing zines as a creative form of research, I am able to reach a broader audience both inside and outside of academia. I see it as a way to connect with the greater queer community and bridge what I am doing in these different spaces: the medium of zines includes the community that comes with it. \nIn this zine, I highlight films depicting Times Square from the late 1960s through early 80s including Taxi Driver, Shaft, News From Home, and then I share more in-depth research on the films Pink Narcissus and Flesh. I include a map of Times Square to think about how the films map onto the city, thinking about films as historical documents with the backdrop/sets of a Times Square that no longer exists and how queerness and desire map onto the city.\nI specifically also included lots of resource lists because I felt like I could not capture everything I wanted within the zine, and I wanted those who had the curiosity to have other avenues to continue that interest.", "publicationTitle": "Unbound: A Journal of Digital Scholarship", "publisher": "", "place": "", "date": "2026-03-26", "volume": "4", "issue": "1", "section": "", "partNumber": "", "partTitle": "", "pages": "", "series": "", "seriesTitle": "", "seriesText": "", "journalAbbreviation": "", "DOI": "10.12794/journals.ujds.v4i1.391", "citationKey": "karpinskiGhostsTimesSquare2026a", "url": "https://journals.library.unt.edu/index.php/unbound/article/view/391", "accessDate": "2026-03-27T21:59:01Z", "PMID": "", "PMCID": "", "ISSN": "2687-9018", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "The Ghosts of Times Square", "language": "en", "libraryCatalog": "journals.library.unt.edu", "callNumber": "", "rights": "Copyright (c) 2026 Kel R. 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Through intricate diagrams and electrified maps, Walsh transforms suppressed histories into dynamic systems of knowledge, challenging the forces that shape what we see, remember, and believe. Drawing on traditions from medieval memory wheels to modern infographics, his work demonstrates how images do more than represent—they organize, produce, and weaponize knowledge. Each piece functions as a learning machine and a monument to possibility, reclaiming erased narratives and exposing hidden networks of power. This zine situates Walsh’s practice within a lineage of visual activism, revealing how design can provoke, persuade, and ignite social change.", "publicationTitle": "Unbound: A Journal of Digital Scholarship", "publisher": "", "place": "", "date": "2026-03-26", "volume": "4", "issue": "1", "section": "", "partNumber": "", "partTitle": "", "pages": "", "series": "", "seriesTitle": "", "seriesText": "", "journalAbbreviation": "", "DOI": "10.12794/journals.ujds.v4i1.358", "citationKey": "olsonKeithWalshWeapons2026a", "url": "https://journals.library.unt.edu/index.php/unbound/article/view/358", "accessDate": "2026-03-27T21:59:01Z", "PMID": "", "PMCID": "", "ISSN": "2687-9018", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "Keith Walsh", "language": "en", "libraryCatalog": "journals.library.unt.edu", "callNumber": "", "rights": "Copyright (c) 2026 Mike Olson", "extra": "", "tags": [], "collections": [], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2026-03-27T21:59:01Z", "dateModified": "2026-03-28T14:54:16Z" } }, { "key": "ZCWRJCKJ", "version": 4541, "library": { "type": "group", "id": 252454, "name": "Zine studies", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/zine_studies", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/252454/items/ZCWRJCKJ", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/zine_studies/items/ZCWRJCKJ", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "createdByUser": { "id": 801619, "username": "jennafreedman", "name": "Jenna Freedman", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/jennafreedman", "type": "text/html" } } }, "creatorSummary": "Cassada", "parsedDate": "2026-03-26", "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "ZCWRJCKJ", "version": 4541, "itemType": "journalArticle", "title": "ZC/ZL: Imagining Relationships Between Zine Creators and Zine Librarians", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Al", "lastName": "Cassada" } ], "abstractNote": "Current zine library scholarship largely focuses on best practices for zine libraries provided by zine librarians for zine librarians—with only a small subsection of research investigating the attitudes and desires of zine creators themselves. This study used an online survey to gather information from both zine librarians and zine creators about their current and ideal interactions with each other. The study finds that nearly all participants view relationships between the two groups as important and that ideal relationships feature communication, collaboration, and respect for the agency of zine creators over their work. Results also reveal insights about zine culture as a whole, positive and negative characteristics of zine libraries, and a discussion of the balance of power between zine librarians, zine creators, and libraries as institutions.\nThis research is presented as a zine in an academic journal, and specifically as a split zine, with one side focused on the experiences and wishes of zine creators and the other side focused on those of zine librarians. Both of these choices are designed to reflect the dual subjects and audience of this research (both zine-ish and academic, with neither taking precedence). My hope is that this journal will reach zine librarians, the zine will reach zine creators, and both groups will take the opportunity to learn more about not just their colleagues but about each other, thereby strengthening their relationships and zine libraries as a whole.", "publicationTitle": "Unbound: A Journal of Digital Scholarship", "publisher": "", "place": "", "date": "2026-03-26", "volume": "4", "issue": "1", "section": "", "partNumber": "", "partTitle": "", "pages": "", "series": "", "seriesTitle": "", "seriesText": "", "journalAbbreviation": "", "DOI": "10.12794/journals.ujds.v4i1.365", "citationKey": "cassadaZCZLImagining2026a", "url": "https://journals.library.unt.edu/index.php/unbound/article/view/365", "accessDate": "2026-03-27T21:59:01Z", "PMID": "", "PMCID": "", "ISSN": "2687-9018", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "ZC/ZL", "language": "en", "libraryCatalog": "journals.library.unt.edu", "callNumber": "", "rights": "Copyright (c) 2026 Al Cassada", "extra": "", "tags": [], "collections": [], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2026-03-27T21:59:01Z", "dateModified": "2026-03-28T14:54:15Z" } }, { "key": "J897LFN2", "version": 4540, "library": { "type": "group", "id": 252454, "name": "Zine studies", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/zine_studies", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/252454/items/J897LFN2", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/zine_studies/items/J897LFN2", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "createdByUser": { "id": 801619, "username": "jennafreedman", "name": "Jenna Freedman", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/jennafreedman", "type": "text/html" } } }, "creatorSummary": "Freedman and Kehoe", "parsedDate": "2026-03-26", "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "J897LFN2", "version": 4540, "itemType": "journalArticle", "title": "Shared Authority: Zine Union Catalog Capstone Issue", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Jenna", "lastName": "Freedman" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Lauren", "lastName": "Kehoe" } ], "abstractNote": "ZineCat is the home of a union catalog dedicated to zines. A union catalog is a resource where libraries can share cataloging and holdings information from their individual collections. The Zine Union Catalog (ZUCJ facilitates researchers' discovery of zine holdings by searching a single catalog search interface, and helps catalogers copy records, and facilitates the lending of materials between libraries. ZUC serves educators, researchers, creators, librarians, archivists, and anyone in the general public with an interest in zines.", "publicationTitle": "Unbound: A Journal of Digital Scholarship", "publisher": "", "place": "", "date": "2026-03-26", "volume": "4", "issue": "1", "section": "", "partNumber": "", "partTitle": "", "pages": "", "series": "", "seriesTitle": "", "seriesText": "", "journalAbbreviation": "", "DOI": "10.12794/journals.ujds.v4i1.387", "citationKey": "freedmanSharedAuthorityZine2026a", "url": "https://journals.library.unt.edu/index.php/unbound/article/view/387", "accessDate": "2026-03-27T21:59:01Z", "PMID": "", "PMCID": "", "ISSN": "2687-9018", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "Shared Authority", "language": "en", "libraryCatalog": "journals.library.unt.edu", "callNumber": "", "rights": "Copyright (c) 2026 Jenna Freedman, Lauren Kehoe", "extra": "", "tags": [], "collections": [], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2026-03-27T21:59:01Z", "dateModified": "2026-03-28T14:54:15Z" } }, { "key": "R44XHQEU", "version": 4539, "library": { "type": "group", "id": 252454, "name": "Zine studies", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/zine_studies", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/252454/items/R44XHQEU", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/zine_studies/items/R44XHQEU", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "createdByUser": { "id": 801619, "username": "jennafreedman", "name": "Jenna Freedman", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/jennafreedman", "type": "text/html" } } }, "creatorSummary": "Tu", "parsedDate": "2026-03-26", "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "R44XHQEU", "version": 4539, "itemType": "journalArticle", "title": "Zines as Traces of Encounters", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Eloïse Ly Van", "lastName": "Tu" } ], "abstractNote": "This zine marks the launch of the ERC project Proteinscapes: The Political Geography of Meat and Dairy. During the launch, I live-drew each conference, summarizing the academic content while also capturing what was not said out loud by the panelists themselves. How does this process unfold?\nSitting discreetly in the corner of the first row, my digital tablet on my knees—pencil in hand—I choose the drawing tool that allows me to write and draw simultaneously. A watercolor ink seemed the most appropriate: quickly handlable for fast note-taking and spontaneous sketches, perfectly suited to a fluid movement following the participant’s talk. The key words are efficiency and relatedness. The process might give you a headache, but it is deeply satisfying: I capture the main concepts and arguments of the presentation with one active ear, while simultaneously searching for the most evocative visual forms. I resort to multiple creative strategies—colors, abstractions, shifts in scale, and focal points—to follow what the participant emphasizes beyond the spoken presentation itself. Off-field voices, anthropomorphous scenes and characters—such as a talkative pig—or surreal symbolic assemblages—such as an animal butcher cutting salad—become ways of tracing the explanatory process of the talks while capturing the atmospheres participants convey, filtered through my own perception and artistic interpretation.\nLive drawing allows me to attend to what circulates unevenly in academic conferences: hesitations, affective intensities, moments of discomfort, or emphases that escape the transcript. While spoken interventions are shaped by disciplinary norms, time constraints, and hierarchies of expertise, drawing makes room for what remains marginal, ambiguous, or unresolved. Silences, side comments, metaphors, jokes, and embodied gestures—often dismissed as anecdotal—become part of the knowledge event itself. Academic conferences generate more than arguments: they produce atmospheres, alignments, frictions, and moments of collective attunement or dissonance. These dimensions are difficult to record and even harder to transmit beyond the room. Live drawing renders these ephemeral relations visible, offering a situated and partial trace of how knowledge is performed, felt, and negotiated.\nThese traces were intended to be intelligible and shareable. The zine can be divided, with each autonomous page circulating as a trace of encounter that can be sent back to the participants. Showing the drawn page based on their presentation often opened genuine and enthusiastic conversations about their work, generating reflections on how research might be made more accessible to non-academic publics.\nBeyond the conference setting, this zine also served as an opportunity to experiment with creative tools and a sensorial approach that I am incorporating into my ongoing fieldwork. Currently, I am navigating the Azorean dairy landscape, sketching dairy production as an extractive regime that reorganizes female bodies and territories through techniques of control, care, and enclosure (Gaard, 2013). This perspective foregrounds how metabolic optimization reinvents persisting hierarchies: gendered divisions of farm work, the systematic subjugation of dairy cows’ bodies, and forms of ecological imperialism rooted in the colonial history of the archipelago’s transformation. The attentiveness cultivated through conference drawing directly informs my field drawing practice. In both contexts, drawing trains my capacity to register relations, atmospheres, and power asymmetries as they emerge—whether in academic debate or in everyday encounters with dairy infrastructures, animals, and landscapes—allowing these layered relations to coexist on the page without being reduced to isolated variables.\nThe precarious and saturated dimensions of animal exploitation are difficult to grasp through textual monographs alone (Lorimer et al., 2019). How, then, can one move beyond the limits and dead ends of writing alone in the field? Visual methods can open ethnographic attentiveness as action-oriented tools to enact multispecies stories as “active technologies of worlding” (Van Dooren et al., 2016). Through the same technique described above, I report my own experience as an ethnographer, transcribing observations through the pen of my paintbrush. This immersive practice becomes a way of processing data, enacting thoughts, feelings, and atmospheres as they emerge from the research process itself.\nPainting the dairy cows’ gaze confronts me with what Kathryn Gillespie describes as the ethical demand of witnessing: an encounter that refuses mastery and instrumentalization. To meet the animal’s gaze is not to speak for her, but to remain with the discomfort of her irreducible otherness, vulnerability, and presence (Gillespie, 2016). Drawing, in this sense, requires ethical openness (Mannay, 2015). It implicates the drawer as both observer and participant, responsible for how relations are rendered and shared. This feminist multispecies position resists the extraction of meaning from animal lives and instead foregrounds attentiveness, accountability, and exposure as methodological commitments. I seek to transmit this sense of relatedness through future zines emerging from my fieldwork.\nThis zine format, therefore, seeks to evoke: appealing to the senses and imagination to make academic contributions more accessible and engaging beyond academic walls. By combining ethnographic inquiry with visual storytelling, this multimodal approach foregrounds the sensory, precarious, and relational dimensions of more-than-human geography through creative forms of scholarly publishing.", "publicationTitle": "Unbound: A Journal of Digital Scholarship", "publisher": "", "place": "", "date": "2026-03-26", "volume": "4", "issue": "1", "section": "", "partNumber": "", "partTitle": "", "pages": "", "series": "", "seriesTitle": "", "seriesText": "", "journalAbbreviation": "", "DOI": "10.12794/journals.ujds.v4i1.351", "citationKey": "tuZinesTracesEncounters2026a", "url": "https://journals.library.unt.edu/index.php/unbound/article/view/351", "accessDate": "2026-03-27T21:59:01Z", "PMID": "", "PMCID": "", "ISSN": "2687-9018", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "", "language": "en", "libraryCatalog": "journals.library.unt.edu", "callNumber": "", "rights": "Copyright (c) 2026 Eloïse Ly Van Tu", "extra": "", "tags": [], "collections": [], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2026-03-27T21:59:01Z", "dateModified": "2026-03-28T14:54:15Z" } }, { "key": "7FMDRRSU", "version": 4534, "library": { "type": "group", "id": 252454, "name": "Zine studies", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/zine_studies", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/252454/items/7FMDRRSU", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/zine_studies/items/7FMDRRSU", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "createdByUser": { "id": 801619, "username": "jennafreedman", "name": "Jenna Freedman", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/jennafreedman", "type": "text/html" } } }, "creatorSummary": "Sheerin", "parsedDate": "2026-03-26", "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "7FMDRRSU", "version": 4534, "itemType": "journalArticle", "title": "I Want You to Have This", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Oisín", "lastName": "Sheerin" } ], "abstractNote": "What do we owe each other? What can(not) be shared? \nÉdouard Glissant conceptualizes the poetic as a means to imagine relationality otherwise, beyond extractivism and subjugation (Poetics of Relation). Poetic opacities are intersubjective articulations of what cannot be known of the other, yet must be embraced by an interpersonal generosity to “give-on-with” the other’s unknowable differences (Glissant 142). Despite the gaps between us, we relate to one another through a desire to share our experiences, to give access to our embodied and affective realities. This is not necessarily a desire to be understood, as Glissant shows, understanding can be violent in its reduction. Rather, I view relationality as an affective co-presence, an entangling of separate bodies and their innumerable, ungraspable differences. \nI Want You to Have This is my attempt to engage the poetics of our shared relation in all its opacities. I want to give you access to my perspective. I hope that it illuminates (or opacifies) something of your own experience of self, and being-with others. In this zine, I visually and textually explore Glissant’s three entangled concepts of opacity, relationality and poetics through the metaphor of “the angel’s share.” During the maturation of whiskey, a certain percentage of volume is lost through evaporation from the cask; this loss is said to be shared with angels for the returned promise of a quality batch. We are all angels; we share, we take, we try; something is lost, something is gained, yet I don’t know what this thing is.\nIn short, I want you to have this.", "publicationTitle": "Unbound: A Journal of Digital Scholarship", "publisher": "", "place": "", "date": "2026-03-26", "volume": "4", "issue": "1", "section": "", "partNumber": "", "partTitle": "", "pages": "", "series": "", "seriesTitle": "", "seriesText": "", "journalAbbreviation": "", "DOI": "10.12794/journals.ujds.v4i1.395", "citationKey": "sheerinWantYouHave2026a", "url": "https://journals.library.unt.edu/index.php/unbound/article/view/395", "accessDate": "2026-03-27T21:59:01Z", "PMID": "", "PMCID": "", "ISSN": "2687-9018", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "", "language": "en", "libraryCatalog": "journals.library.unt.edu", "callNumber": "", "rights": "Copyright (c) 2026 Oisin Sheerin", "extra": "", "tags": [], "collections": [], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2026-03-27T21:59:01Z", "dateModified": "2026-03-28T14:54:15Z" } }, { "key": "LMU7KJBJ", "version": 4538, "library": { "type": "group", "id": 252454, "name": "Zine studies", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/zine_studies", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/252454/items/LMU7KJBJ", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/zine_studies/items/LMU7KJBJ", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "createdByUser": { "id": 801619, "username": "jennafreedman", "name": "Jenna Freedman", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/jennafreedman", "type": "text/html" } } }, "creatorSummary": "McLaughlin", "parsedDate": "2026-03-26", "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "LMU7KJBJ", "version": 4538, "itemType": "journalArticle", "title": "Finding Zines in South and Southeast Asia", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Zoë", "lastName": "McLaughlin" } ], "abstractNote": "Asian studies librarians work in a multidisciplinary manner, collecting materials and exercising expertise across domains and genres, ranging from academic research to literature to popular culture. Several university libraries have large zine collections, as they can illuminate points of view outside of the mainstream, including information not created for academic consumption and narratives of people from marginalized identities. For an Asian studies library collection, zines add important linguistic, political, and ethnic diversity—but finding them can be tricky. This zine discusses the author’s process for collecting zines, taking into consideration power and cultural dynamics. Working with communities to collect their publications requires nuance and flexibility. I also discuss how students and researchers might interact with these materials, whether by creating their own zines, building communities online, or through more traditional research methods. Ultimately, this zine illustrates the changing state of Asian studies as a field focused on building and maintaining partnerships across the globe rather than extraction. The ways in which zines are collected for a university library can serve as a through which to view the current state of Asian studies collection practices, including how and why materials are collected and how users near and far can interact with university library collections.", "publicationTitle": "Unbound: A Journal of Digital Scholarship", "publisher": "", "place": "", "date": "2026-03-26", "volume": "4", "issue": "1", "section": "", "partNumber": "", "partTitle": "", "pages": "", "series": "", "seriesTitle": "", "seriesText": "", "journalAbbreviation": "", "DOI": "10.12794/journals.ujds.v4i1.355", "citationKey": "mclaughlinFindingZinesSouth2026a", "url": "https://journals.library.unt.edu/index.php/unbound/article/view/355", "accessDate": "2026-03-27T21:59:01Z", "PMID": "", "PMCID": "", "ISSN": "2687-9018", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "", "language": "en", "libraryCatalog": "journals.library.unt.edu", "callNumber": "", "rights": "Copyright (c) 2026 Zoë McLaughlin", "extra": "", "tags": [], "collections": [], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2026-03-27T21:59:01Z", "dateModified": "2026-03-28T14:54:14Z" } }, { "key": "82VWQXQX", "version": 4537, "library": { "type": "group", "id": 252454, "name": "Zine studies", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/zine_studies", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/252454/items/82VWQXQX", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/zine_studies/items/82VWQXQX", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "createdByUser": { "id": 801619, "username": "jennafreedman", "name": "Jenna Freedman", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/jennafreedman", "type": "text/html" } } }, "creatorSummary": "Greene", "parsedDate": "2026-03-26", "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "82VWQXQX", "version": 4537, "itemType": "journalArticle", "title": "Critical Conversations: Race and Disability in the Premodern World", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Dalton", "lastName": "Greene" } ], "abstractNote": "This project emerges from the reading and thinking I have been doing in preparation for my PhD qualifying exams, through which I have focused on connections between premodern critical race and disability studies. Both fields consider conceptions of embodiment, identity, and difference in the early modern period (ca. 1500-1700), but they have historically tended to operate independently, with relatively little collaboration and cross-pollination. My intervention is to join an increasing number of scholars seeking to bring these areas of inquiry to bear on one another, interrogating the ways that race and dis/ability are mutually constituted in premodern drama. By examining performances of bodies that are marked as nonnormative and therefore deviant in some way, I argue, we can begin to track the social and imaginative processes that render certain bodies “ideal” while stigmatizing others. \nIn pursuing these lines of thought, I of course draw on the work of others before me. Inspired by Sara Ahmed’s writing on the politics and practice of citation, this zine spotlights key texts I have encountered in my research thus far, to honor the work that enables my own. Limited by finite time and resources, these titles are a necessarily incomplete picture of the broad network of intellectual work with which I engage, but I have chosen to include those monographs featured here because they have had especially profound impacts on my thinking. I pair covers of these works with quotes from their acknowledgements sections that nod to the intellectual genealogies within which their work sits. Across the studies represented, each author expresses their awareness of how deeply interconnected our research and writing is in the humanities, despite the popular, romanticized idea of the independent researcher.  \nI design the zine with two formats in mind: print and digital. While both are generally similar, using a combination of handwritten pages, digital collage, and type handset and printed with a traditional letterpress, there are important distinctions between them. The digital edition is a straightforward presentation of its content, with pages alternating between works from premodern critical race and disability studies. The print edition, though, more fully utilizes the material object of the zine to express the core ideas this project aims to capture. When printed and assembled, the zine makes use of a flutter fold page design to address race and dis/ability on opposite sides of each page. This layout manifests the disjunction between the two fields while creating a circular or looping impression; when fully opened, the zine allows one page to flow simultaneously into its reverse and the next page, bringing all content together. In addition, when fully spread, the pages produce an open space representing the interstices my work is positioned to enter. While individual pages depict standalone texts, the physical zine, which is more than the sum of its parts, reconstitutes discrete sources into a new object that conceptualizes my thinking at this moment in time. \nAs an intellectual exercise, the creation of this zine has allowed me to better articulate and represent the work I am preparing to do through my dissertation. Drawing on methodologies aligned with research-creation and critical making, the project also offers a model for the ways that creative projects can facilitate rigorous (re)conceptualizations of the scholarship we produce. Emerging from my goal to build out a dissertation with room for interdisciplinarity and critical conversations between richly productive subfields in my area, my zine focuses on the facts of community and cooperation in scholarly work, facts that can be easily elided in our hyper-emphasis on originality. I therefore position this as a dynamic critical-creative project to counter such attachments to intellectual exclusivity and ownership in academic research and writing, foregrounding instead its essentially collaborative, communal nature.", "publicationTitle": "Unbound: A Journal of Digital Scholarship", "publisher": "", "place": "", "date": "2026-03-26", "volume": "4", "issue": "1", "section": "", "partNumber": "", "partTitle": "", "pages": "", "series": "", "seriesTitle": "", "seriesText": "", "journalAbbreviation": "", "DOI": "10.12794/journals.ujds.v4i1.343", "citationKey": "greeneCriticalConversationsRace2026a", "url": "https://journals.library.unt.edu/index.php/unbound/article/view/343", "accessDate": "2026-03-27T21:59:01Z", "PMID": "", "PMCID": "", "ISSN": "2687-9018", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "Critical Conversations", "language": "en", "libraryCatalog": "journals.library.unt.edu", "callNumber": "", "rights": "Copyright (c) 2026 Dalton Greene", "extra": "", "tags": [], "collections": [], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2026-03-27T21:59:01Z", "dateModified": "2026-03-28T14:54:14Z" } }, { "key": "4J8AKGHP", "version": 4533, "library": { "type": "group", "id": 252454, "name": "Zine studies", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/zine_studies", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/252454/items/4J8AKGHP", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/zine_studies/items/4J8AKGHP", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "createdByUser": { "id": 801619, "username": "jennafreedman", "name": "Jenna Freedman", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/jennafreedman", "type": "text/html" } } }, "creatorSummary": "Rucker and Ifateyo", "parsedDate": "2026-03-26", "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "4J8AKGHP", "version": 4533, "itemType": "journalArticle", "title": "\"To Become a Society That's Meaningful\": A (Zine) History of the Ella Jo Baker Intentional Community Cooperative", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Jessica", "lastName": "Rucker" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Ajowa", "lastName": "Ifateyo" } ], "abstractNote": "In the early 2000s, during a period of rapid gentrification in the nation’s capital, a small group of primarily African American working-class women activists and organizers incorporated a limited equity housing cooperative and intentional community. Located in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of the city, developed from vacant District of Columbia Housing and Community Development (DHCD) owned parcels, and named after Ms. Ella Josephine Baker, the legendary and skilled grassroots organizer, EJBICC was established to provide safe, decent, and affordable housing free from private property ownership. \nA quarter of a century later, despite the on-going massive displacement and forced relocation of working-class Washingtonians, EJBICC continues to fulfill its mission; EJBICC stewards 15-units of affordable cooperative housing for a multi-racial polyglot group of working-class activists and organizers oriented toward feminist, socialist, and internationalist politics. And it is the only limited equity housing cooperative and intentional community created by activists and organizers, for activists and organizers, that is cooperatively owned by its members. \nTo date, there is no formal, written or oral history of EJBICC.  Therefore, “To Become A Part of A Society That Is Meaningful\": A Zine History of the Ella Jo Baker Intentional Community Cooperative tells the story of how EJBICC came to be in a way that is accessible and available to each of its members and residents, as well as anyone interested in housing, irrespective of age, or formal knowledge of limited equity cooperatives and intentional communities. The zine purposefully spotlights the labor of two of its five co-founders. 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Published on an irregular basis, Apian Gazette serves to bridge the gap between the rigours of academic journals and the immediacy of blogging. It is designed to be easily produced and distributed, creating a material platform for cross-disciplinary collaborations and experimentations. Inspired by beekeeping journals, the Gazette pays tribute to the independent spirit of amateur publications while reappropriating the academic means of knowledge distribution.\nPrinted in autumn 2025, the second volume focuses on the Ministry of Bees itself. It offers a brief overview of over a decade of research – from the fields of anthropology, art, and beekeeping – about the age-old relationships humans have developed with bees.\nFor Academizines!, a special issue of Unbound: A Journal of Digital Scholarship, Volume 02 of Apian Gazette was updated. A digital layer was superimposed onto the first edition, leaving the original English text untouched while partially covering the French translation. This update morphed the printed ethnographic zine into a digital hybrid, opening up a discussion with academic peers. This extended abstract unfolds some of the main anthropological themes tackled by Apian – Ministry of Bees, such as the roles of technology and collaboration in bridging multispecies and multimodal anthropology.\n\u2028More than a decade ago, I created Apian, a self-proclaimed Ministry of Bees. Based on my background as an artist, beekeeper, and multispecies and multimodal anthropologist, the Ministry is responsible for the relationship between humans and all bee species. It is tasked by bees with safeguarding the history of this age-old relationship and does so by producing what I term polymorphous ethnographies. These ethnographies combine various media, including video, sound, photography, and writing, bringing a kaleidoscopic perspective (Westmoreland 2022) to multispecies anthropology. Ultimately, the Ministry aims to establish a framework for the future of this relationship in the context of climate breakdown – a future free from extractive practices and rooted in ancestral knowledge.\nApian Gazette is thus one example of the polymorphous ethnographies produced by the Ministry. Multimodality gives volume to ethnographic experience, away from logocentrism, diversifying the outcomes and reach of anthropological research. By employing the term polymorphous rather than multimodal, however, I foreground the morphing potential of ethnographic data. In this framework, an ethnography is not a static result but a continuously morphing entity. It may first be expressed as a text before morphing into a film, a sound piece and a zine, and, of course, it works the other way around as well, starting as a film and morphing into a text. \nShedding new light on ethnographic findings, this approach also helps think about the role and potential of each media. When is sound more appropriate than text or text than images? In what context do images surpass text? Multimodal anthropology is thus approached from the angle of technology and technics. Rather than seeing technology as mere tools for exploring and expressing different layers of the research’s subjects, this approach proposes seeing technology as foundational to multimodal anthropology. As for this digital Gazette, it was first printed and distributed to comrades to build a like-minded community, before morphing into a digital version, engaging in dialogues with academic peers, and reflecting on zines – as print media – as a technology suited for doing ethnographic research on a burning planet dominated by late-capitalist agendas.\nHere, the Ministry of Bees embraces the zine format to create a space to share nascent hypotheses, building a bridge between academic research and participants. Rather than replacing conventional peer-reviewed publications (Jones 2024), zines introduce another temporality to scholarly research, privileging immediacy, accessibility, dissemination, and collaborative potential. Defining what a zine is tricky because, ultimately, zines do not want to be defined. It is a DIY publication – often in small print, not-for-profit, home-made – used by various communities to spread the word about urgent political matters, celebrations, and calls for action. It is all of that and none of that. A zine is an anti-fascist, anti-racist, anti-capitalist print media; it is print capitalism (Anderson 1983) appropriated by artists, activists, and socialists, amongst others, to build other forms of governance. As a sub-technology of the printed press, zines function much like archives; when appropriated by marginalised or feminist movements, they become epistemological technologies that define how the past and the future are encountered (McKinney 2020). \nThe use of the alias aims to reveal Apian – Ministry of Bees’ inherent collaborative nature. Invoking a collaborative ethnography (Rappaport 2008) approach, the Ministry seeks to decentre the researcher as the sole authority. Instead, it advocates collaborative approaches that transform fieldwork into a space of co-imagination, enabling the co-production of knowledge (2008). This co-constitution of knowledge is grounded in long-term engagement with communities, bridging the gap between academic inquiry and lived experience. Fundamentally, this collaborative approach is not restricted to humans. Beekeeping is an inherently interspecies practice; therefore, the Ministry views bees not as subjects of study, but as comrades. Ultimately, this issue of Apian Gazette, in both its print and digital versions, is a call to continue this collaboration across species and disciplines.", "publicationTitle": "Unbound: A Journal of Digital Scholarship", "publisher": "", "place": "", "date": "2026-03-26", "volume": "4", "issue": "1", "section": "", "partNumber": "", "partTitle": "", "pages": "", "series": "", "seriesTitle": "", "seriesText": "", "journalAbbreviation": "", "DOI": "10.12794/journals.ujds.v4i1.336", "citationKey": "borioliApianGazetteSpecial2026a", "url": "https://journals.library.unt.edu/index.php/unbound/article/view/336", "accessDate": "2026-03-27T21:59:01Z", "PMID": "", "PMCID": "", "ISSN": "2687-9018", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "Apian Gazette", "language": "en", "libraryCatalog": "journals.library.unt.edu", "callNumber": "", "rights": "Copyright (c) 2026 Aladin Borioli", "extra": "", "tags": [], "collections": [], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2026-03-27T21:59:01Z", "dateModified": "2026-03-28T14:54:14Z" } }, { "key": "PIJ9T6YV", "version": 4527, "library": { "type": "group", "id": 252454, "name": "Zine studies", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/zine_studies", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/252454/items/PIJ9T6YV", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/zine_studies/items/PIJ9T6YV", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "createdByUser": { "id": 801619, "username": "jennafreedman", "name": "Jenna Freedman", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/jennafreedman", "type": "text/html" } } }, "creatorSummary": "Subendran", "parsedDate": "2026-03-26", "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "PIJ9T6YV", "version": 4527, "itemType": "journalArticle", "title": "Justice by Design: Designing with Accountability, Care and Critical Self-Awareness", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Johnathan", "lastName": "Subendran" } ], "abstractNote": "Designers are never neutral. Positioned as integrators, they decide what knowledge enters a process, whose voices are amplified, and what futures are foreclosed. These decisions often remain invisible, yet they carry profound ethical and political consequences. This zine acts as a public service announcement, exposing the hidden forces - bias, positionality, methods, tools, and institutional demands that shape integration in design and demand accountability from those who practice it.Through storytelling and vignettes, the zine draws on reflexive and autoethnographic fragments to reveal moments where integration falters - when certain voices dominate, when institutional priorities override care, or when dominant tools erase community perspectives. It also illustrates moments where integration can open space for justice. These fragments show that design is always an act of (in)justice, mediated through integrative choices, and that accountability lies with designers to recognise and respond to these stakes.Rather than prescribing solutions, the zine holds space for discomfort and reflexivity as essential steps toward justice by design. It challenges designers to approach integration with greater consciousness and care, not as passive collectors of knowledge but as conscious mediators of power, meaning, and inclusion. Speaking to design communities and wider publics, it insists designers can be KINDr, fostering knowledge integration for design justice.", "publicationTitle": "Unbound: A Journal of Digital Scholarship", "publisher": "", "place": "", "date": "2026-03-26", "volume": "4", "issue": "1", "section": "", "partNumber": "", "partTitle": "", "pages": "", "series": "", "seriesTitle": "", "seriesText": "", "journalAbbreviation": "", "DOI": "10.12794/journals.ujds.v4i1.392", "citationKey": "subendranJusticeDesignDesigning2026a", "url": "https://journals.library.unt.edu/index.php/unbound/article/view/392", "accessDate": "2026-03-27T21:59:01Z", "PMID": "", "PMCID": "", "ISSN": "2687-9018", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "Justice by Design", "language": "en", "libraryCatalog": "journals.library.unt.edu", "callNumber": "", "rights": "Copyright (c) 2026 Johnathan Subendran", "extra": "", "tags": [], "collections": [], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2026-03-27T21:59:01Z", 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], "abstractNote": "Deviant by Design: Forging Systems for Path-Diverse Learners introduces a systems-level analytical framework for understanding and critiquing educational design.  At its core, this framework centers human variability, developmental diversity, and equity as realities that educational systems must prioritize in their design.  \nAll learners can be understood as ‘path-diverse’ learners.  Path-diversity refers to the reality that learners inherently vary in their developmental trajectories and patterns across multiple dimensions over time, including pacing, sequencing, and modes of engaging in learning.  At any given point or period, learners occupy different positions along these spectral dimensions, which are dynamic and shaped by a combination of context, circumstance, and behavior.\nEducational systems, however, tend to be designed for uniformity and conformity to normative and idealized expectations rather than for human variability or developmental realities.  These expectations—which span assumptions about pacing, motivation, definitions of “success,” and beyond—are encoded in a mythological “ideal learner” that shapes the design and implementation of educational structures, policies, institutional practices, and assessment schemes.  As a result, educational systems privilege and reward learners whose developmental trajectories tend to align more closely with prescribed norms and ideals, while simultaneously marginalizing and punishing others, who disproportionately experience constrained opportunity, misclassification, and overlooked potential.\nThis zine advances an analytical framework of path-diverse learning that (1) reconceptualizes learner variability as a core developmental reality to be centered in educational design, and (2) locates educational problems at the systemic level rather than the individual level.  Building upon interdisciplinary scholarship spanning education, psychology, sociology, and adjacent fields, this zine explores how the mythological “ideal learner” has become structurally entrenched in educational systems, how these structures shape learners’ experiences over time, and how they produce or reinforce inequities that emerge as unevenly distributed harms.  The zine concludes by outlining tentative design directions for more effective and equitable educational systems, including guiding principles, responsive integrations, and reflective structures that support human variability, developmental diversity, and plasticity.  \nOverall, these conceptual contributions position path-diverse educational design as a central framework for shifting how educational systems anticipate, respond to, and design for real learners, thereby forging effective, human-centered educational systems.", "publicationTitle": "Unbound: A Journal of Digital Scholarship", "publisher": "", "place": "", "date": "2026-03-26", "volume": "4", "issue": "1", "section": "", "partNumber": "", "partTitle": "", "pages": "", 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Sound Exchange is a vinyl record store that first opened in 1979 and was located in a two-story red brick house at the corner of Richmond Avenue from 1998 until 2019 when it moved to Second Ward in Houston’s East End neighborhood. Like many other places in Houston, the lot was bought by a developer for new construction. As a writer and zinester who has lived the majority of my life in Houston I now find myself meditating on the passage of time and how to reflect the felt value of such spaces in zine form (Watson & Bennet, 2021). After a long hiatus and many life changes I began creating zines again in 2022. I am drawn to the one-page format in particular as it is both easy to complete and assemble and because it allows me to create a uniquely distilled physical object in today’s primarily digital landscape (Blake, 2020). Further, I am inspired by the viral social media trend (Picaro, 2025) that uses Google Maps Street View to find images of deceased relatives, old houses, and other nostalgic glimpses of the past (Hu, 2020). This paper will use my recent zines about Houston as examples of how the form can be used to create a landscape of personal media archaeology.", "publicationTitle": "Unbound: A Journal of Digital Scholarship", "publisher": "", "place": "", "date": "2026-03-26", "volume": "4", "issue": "1", "section": "", "partNumber": "", "partTitle": "", "pages": "", "series": "", "seriesTitle": "", "seriesText": "", "journalAbbreviation": "", "DOI": "10.12794/journals.ujds.v4i1.386", "citationKey": "sewellThisMustBe2026a", "url": "https://journals.library.unt.edu/index.php/unbound/article/view/386", "accessDate": "2026-03-27T21:59:01Z", "PMID": "", "PMCID": "", "ISSN": "2687-9018", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "This Must Be The Place", "language": "en", "libraryCatalog": "journals.library.unt.edu", "callNumber": "", "rights": "Copyright (c) 2026 Claire Sewell", "extra": "", "tags": [], "collections": [], "relations": {}, "dateAdded": "2026-03-27T21:59:01Z", "dateModified": "2026-03-28T14:54:11Z" } }, { "key": "IH97YWCY", "version": 4521, "library": { "type": "group", "id": 252454, "name": "Zine studies", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/zine_studies", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/252454/items/IH97YWCY", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/zine_studies/items/IH97YWCY", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "createdByUser": { "id": 801619, "username": "jennafreedman", "name": "Jenna Freedman", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/jennafreedman", "type": "text/html" } } }, "creatorSummary": "Setele", "parsedDate": "2026-03-26", "numChildren": 0 }, "data": { "key": "IH97YWCY", "version": 4521, "itemType": "journalArticle", "title": "My Abortion Journey", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Julie", "lastName": "Setele" } ], "abstractNote": "This deluxe minizine contains two narratives in one. On the front side in minizine format is a personal story about how the author was raised anti-abortion but grew up to become a staunch reproductive justice advocate. On the reverse side in flyer format is information about the reproductive justice movement, a brief discussion of why the zine was created, along with recommended reading and citations. 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