Welcome to week two of Zine Month! Today Amy, Justina, and Payton are joined by friends of the pod Gemma Neall and Shona Edwards. These wonderful guests are zine experts AND classicists — just about the coolest cross-section of interests a person could possibly have. So in this episode we make a journey from ancient poetry to Shakespeare and then all the way to Ronald Reagan, Spockanalia, and Riot Grrrls. But mainly we will find out how zine-making can cut through imposter syndrome, strengthen communities, and challenge the calcified practices of academia. Just don’t forget rule #1: Always make the zine.
This month, in lieu of setting a ‘book club pick’ we’ll be making zines, and we want you to create along with us! We hope these episodes inspire you to get crafty — please do send us your zines over on Instagram (@amyandbookclub) and follow along to see whatever unhinged ones we come up with (we’ll be sharing ours in our ‘book club’ episode on July 23).
MENTIONS
Poetry/books
Aeneid by Virgil
Heroides by Ovid
Iliad by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson
Metamorphoses by Ovid, translated by Stephanie McCarter
Nox by Anne Carson
Odyssey by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw (play)
Pygmalion by Ovid
Song of Achilles by Madeleine Miller
Film
My Fair Lady
Pretty Woman
Authors/poets
Gallus
Horace
Natalie Harkin
Ovid
Propertius
Sources:
Barthes, Roland. ‘The Death of the Author.’ In: Newton, K.M. (eds) Twentieth-Century Literary Theory. Palgrave, London. 1997. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25934-2_25
Halberstam, Jack. The Queer Art of Failure. Duke University Press, Durham and London. 2011. https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822394358
Haraway, Donna. ‘Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective.’ Feminist Studies, vol. 14, no. 3, 1988, pp. 575-99. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/3178066
Harkin, Natalie. Archival-Poetics. (Archival-Poetics; No. 1 Colonial archive), (Archival-Poetics; No. 2 Haunting), (Archival-Poetics; No. 3 Blood memory). Sydney, Vagabond Press. 2019.
Harkin, Natalie. ‘Weaving Blankets of Story and Hearts of Gold: An Archival-poetics Praxis.’ Cordite Poetry Review. 2021. https://cordite.org.au/essays/weaving-blankets-hearts-of-gold/2/
Zine resources:
Mental health: madzines.org
Riot Grrrls: riotgrrrlarchive.commons.gc.cuny.edu/zines/
Spockanalia: archive.org/details/SpockanaliaV1
404 Media Zine about ICE Surveillance: www.404media.co/icezine/
International Ronald Reagan Fan Club:
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