Zine Month Roundup!
Microcosm began with zines, and they remain our bread and butter as a production ethos, as accessible information transmitters, and as incubators for creativity. We celebrate these pocket-sized testaments to DIY ingenuity year-round, but July is officially recognized as Zine Month, so we’re shining the spotlight on our wide-ranging zine collections to celebrate.
Below are excerpts from a few themed collections we put together to amplify the amazing work being done in itty bitty book form, with each theme containing a little something for everybody. Dig in, enjoy!
- Make some contraptions, harvest your own herbs, make your own cleaning supplies, or organize some rad events with this collection of zines all about DIY!
- How to Organize Inclusive Events: A Handbook for Feminist, Accessible, and Sustainable Gatherings
- Reclaiming Our Ancient Wisdom: Herbal Abortion Procedure and Practice for Midwives and Herbalists
- Biff Boff Bam Sock Issue 9: Know Your Vote
- Unsinkable: How to Build Plywood Pontoons & Longtail Boat Motors Out of Scrap
- This collection features zines for teen readers on topics from skateboarding to cats, magic swords to service dogs, and more!
- Sometimes you have to put on your own oxygen mask before helping someone with theirs. This collection is all about self-care, self-love, and self-preservation.
- The Breakup Guide: Using Heartbreak to Understand Your Needs and Develop Healthier Relationship Patterns
- Pain is Really Strange
- Madness & Oppression: Paths to Personal Transformation and Collective Liberation
- Ability: Emerging from the Social Constraints on Neurodivergence and Disability
- Stressed & Overwhelmed: Good Habits for the Exhausted Overachiever
- These zines feature kickass history and notable folks, spanning punk rock roots, queer sailors, global resistance movements, and more.
- In this collection, we’ve gathered some of our most original, you-won’t-get-these-anywhere-else zines. Radical nuns, substitute teaching, grumpy baristas, and more below!