While the term "zine" might conjure imagines of big magazines like Vanity Fair or Vogue, the zine culture is broader than you might realize.
Zines offer writers, artists, and creators of all sorts the chance to self-publish their work. Jess Morgan, creator of the local Scribes and Vibes Zine festival, says that zines are a great encapsulation of the local creative voice.
"I think it really lets you own what you're writing or producing or what art you are putting out there," said Morgan. "It allows you to kind of have a local distribution process. Usually if you are doing zines, you're likely handing them out physically to people or leaving them somewhere where you're at. So, they usually end of feeling very communal in some ways, but also really allow people to take ownership over their narrative or their voice or what they're trying to educate people about."
The Twin Ports has a burgeoning zine scene, largely focusing on individual voices. Morgan says that this scene can slide in to serve small communities, especially as larger media outlets start to falter.
"We have had so much of our pieces of communication in our media kind of disappear and become digitized and now physical media is coming back."
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