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.

We heard from four panelists, including Anne Pasek, media studies professor at Trent University; Jared Margulies, environmental geographer at University of Alabama; Lucy Thompson, PhD student in human geography at Penn State; and Lissette Lorenz, PhD student in STS at Cornell. Panelists discussed their experiences as scholars, artists, and activists with using zines for climate justice work. They emphasized how the material form of zines enables them to connect with broader audiences, travel in unexpected ways, and creatively rework conventions of knowledge-distribution. Our conversation concluded with a Q&A with our audience of 87. Check out the full workshop recording for tips on post-based zine exchanges, guerrilla distribution methods, collaborating with artists, working with activist groups, and more.

Watch the recording here, or embedded below:

Resources

Featured Zines

• Getting Into Fights With Data Centers
• Welcome to Otay Mountain: An Alternative Field Guide
• Embodying the Pipeline
• Blackecologies

Additional Works

• Marguiles, Jared. 2024. “Sounding out borderscapes: A sonic geography of the US–Mexico border at Otay Mountain, California.” Geopolitics 29 (2): 520–551.
• Grimm, Izabelle, ed. 2023. “Maybe the mustard will save us, and other stories about plants and people.”
• Hartson, Taylor, et al., eds. 2024. Playing in the dirt: A gathering of stories, art, & writing by queer midwestern farmers. Combos Press.