Tally Zine Fest - Call for Vendors

Join us on March 31st, from 12-5 pm, to celebrate the world of self-publishing and DIY culture, and support our local zine makers! If you are a zine maker, printmaker, bookmaker, comic artist, or community/mutual aid organization that would like to participate in this year’s zine fest, apply at: https://forms.gle/2cqktiVjWMXSh2cH8

Zines, short for “fanzine,” are self-published booklets consisting of original or reproduced images and texts, traditionally produced through a copy machine. Zines provided a method of giving artists, especially historically marginalized ones, a voice.

In the 1960s, zines became a facet for Black feminists to address white supremacy, the patriarchy, and issues regarding intersectionality in the women’s liberation movement. They became popular during the 1980s underground feminist punk movement, better known as the Riot Grrrl Movement. In the early 2000s, LGBTQ+ publications, such as QZAP (Queer Zine Archive Project) sought out to preserve queer zines and have them be available to various communities.

Nowadays, libraries and bookstores carry collections of zines signifying how far they’ve come!