Rainbows Are Not Gay & 6 Ways To Stave Off Madness were created as part of a four-week course I taught called The Making of A Zine.
During this hands-on course, we covered Idea Generation, Content Collection, Production, and Distribution. Students were challenged to create zines that would serve as platforms for self-discovery, community building, and/or collective activism. Each participant left the course having completed at least one zine, these were mine:
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