This isn’t an attack on zine creators if this were to be an attack the zines would’ve been named and called out. If zine creators consider this article to be an attack, step back and reevaluate why you’re actually angry. The point of this article wasn’t to bring down the zine community because there have been many other zines that have given black creators a voice in their product, not only in the present but also in the past. What zine creators should realize from this article is how they’ve contributed to the problem in the past and provide actual change.
Read MoreI was raised with the idea that being an individual, having character, having a personality— all these things would be enough to carry me into the real world. I just had to worry about my own personal development in order to just be a functional human in the world. As someone who never really saw themselves as a minority, the hard slap of reality really hit me when I got to college and realised how thoroughly minoritized I was.
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