Abstract
This paper gives an account of a series of three Zoom zine-making workshops run between March and July 2020 that were themed the political, the personal and the practical. A micro-reading of the zines is offered as data that mirror the aims of the workshops, to queer time by slowing down and creating a pause. The process of zine-making as feminist praxis is examined, and the zines themselves are discussed as data that reflect specific moments in time during the early phases of the pandemic. By inviting everyday feminist academic workers, from PhD candidates to professors to participate in a collective act of zine-making, this paper argues that a type of feminist work exists between academia and activism that subverts institutional definitions of productivity, collaboration and output.
RAS ID
35917
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of Publication
2022
School
School of Education / Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) / Centre for People, Place and Planet
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Identifier
Jo Pollitt
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2821-7768
Mindy Blaise
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2476-9407
Emily M. Gray
Comments
Gray, E. M., Pollitt, J., & Blaise, M. (2022). Between activism and academia: Zine-making as a feminist response to COVID-19. Gender and Education, 34(8), 887-905. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2021.1931045