We recently had the chance to catch up with Dr. Denise Fernandes (Assistant Professor of Politics at Whitman College) about her experience teaching with zines in her introduction to environmental racism class. Last year, her students produced a series of zines on settler colonialism and environmental racism in the US Pacific Northwest. Below is our conversation with Denise, along with the zines her students created for the course. The interview has been lightly edited.

Hello again from the GEOZONe collective! Three months ago, we convened in Detroit to hold our first in-person zine fair in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers. The fair was a huge success: special shout out to Jillian Cain, Lisa Schamess, Rae Baker, Claire Fitch, Elin Thorlund, and all our printing assistants and on-site volunteers for their help!! We couldn’t have done it without y’all. Below, the collective reflects on the zine fair and discusses what’s next for GEOZONe.

On December 2, GEOZONe hosted an online forum on environmental storytelling with zines, in collaboration with the University of Delaware’s Frontier Fellows, a group of scholars working on creative methods of science communication.

On September 13, GEOZONe held a workshop on zine pedagogy in the postsecondary classroom.

Hello from the GEOZONe collective!