Author(s): Paula Guerra and Laura López eds.

PUBLICATION DESIGN

Part 2 of this special issue of ZINES gathers works of several researchers and zine-makers that analyse and produce zines that focus on gender and sexual dissidence around the world. In the last decades, we have witnessed the increase of the number of zines with the representation of the feminist and queer issues in a range of different countries, just like studies that have been aware of that. Focus on these zines and publications in this special issue gives us a better understanding of this phenomenon and the different state of the art among the five continents, paying special attention to emerging scenes and populations oppressed by the colonial, patriarchal, and capitalist system. Although the production of fanzines precedes the emergence of punk, the truth is that it was with it that fanzines became relevant as spaces for freedom of thought and creation, as well as an alternative to conventional media. Since the 1970s, the universe of fanzines has expanded not only thematically and stylistically, but also has extended its territorial coverage and the communication media used in its production and dissemination have expanded. In this special issue, we propose an approach that aims to look at fanzines as ‘communities’ founded around a cultural object, in the production of texts, photos and other materials about feminist and queer scenes around the world – linked or not linked to punk.