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Zine Making But I’m a Cheerleader…. looking at LGBTQI experiences in sport with Edinburgh Zine Library

Today’s workshop! • 5. 30 – 6 pm – Introductions and discussions • 6 – 7 pm – Mini-zine making! • 7 - 7. 30 pm – Zine reproduction and decompression time!

Some Housekeeping… • Why we have a safe space agreement (confidentiality, respect, pronouns, learning and growing) • Take care of yourself! • Where are the toilets? • Photo permissions

Who are we? • Edinburgh Zine Library is a reference library of zines hosted by the Art and Design Library – just upstairs! • We were established in 2016 and now have nearly 300 zines in our collection.

What’s a Zine? • Zines are self-published, not for profit and with a small distribution. • No artistic skill, experience, or technical expertise is necessary – anyone can make a zine! • Zines come in all shapes and sizes. • Zines can be about anything you want!

Some different types of zines…. • Fanzines are about things that you love – tv shows, movies, bands, books. The fanzines in our collection are about things from Gordon Ramsey to … • Perzines or Personal Zines are about sharing your own experiences or personal story. • List Zines – does what it says on the tin. Some of the best zines are just made up of lists • Art Zines these are zines that focus more on the visual arts. • Cut-and-Paste Zines – this describes zines made using collage. Taking an image out of one context – like a magazine – and putting it into another can be really powerful and have really interesting results! • Mini-zines – this is what we’ll be making!

Why Zines? • Zines are an alternative to mainstream media – a way of sharing stories that don’t fit into the dominant narrative. • Zines are specific – they speak of personal, individual experience rather than making sweeping generalisations. • Zines are multi-dimensional and intersectional – you can use them as a platform to talk about a lot of different and complicated things. • Zines are easy to make and share. You don’t need a lot to put together a zine – pen, paper, scissors and glue! • You can be creative in zines – sometimes things are hard to put into words, so draw it or collage it instead.

There’s no such thing as a bad drawing. A drawing only has to be strong enough to hold your idea. -Rachael House

Some QUESTIONS: 1. Can you name any LGBTQI sports people? 2. Why does visibility of LGBTQI people in sports matter? 3. Why do you think LGBTQI people have lower levels of participation in sport/physical activity?

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Some final things to think about! • Your back page! – Name, Date, Copyright/Creative Commons License, Any other important info! (Use one of our jazzy stickers) • The most important thing about a zine is that YOU made it. It doesn’t have to be perfect. It doesn’t have to have all the answers.