The Perzine Is Political: Critical Think

The Perzine Is Political, will use zines in the Barnard Library's extensive collection of creative nonfiction texts written by authors holding a wide range of identities, along with excerpts from the book Girl Zines: Making Media, Doing Feminism, scholarly articles, and lay publications The class will include a digital element, doing textual analysis with the zine corpus, and will explore how critical making challenges the research paper as the default or only way of demonstrating knowledge.