Learn about zine culture and how compilation media can be used as a facilitation tool for queer and trans newcomer narratives.
First, we’ll explore a range of examples that focus on queer, trans diasporic narratives through themes of home, immigration, displacement, food, land, and queerness. Then, we’ll look at tools for creation available for the sector and discuss DIY publishing as an empowering methodology for self-definition, advocacy, and community building.
Bio: Christina Hajjar is a queer Lebanese artist, writer, and cultural worker based in Winnipeg on Treaty 1 Territory. Her practice considers intergenerational inheritance, domesticity, and place through diaspora, body archives, and cultural iconography. She is passionate about independent publishing and edits Herizons, Canada’s foremost feminist magazine, and Carnation, a submission-based zine on diaspora and displacement. Hajjar was a recipient of the 2020 PLATFORM Photography Award and her publication Diaspora Daughter / Diaspora Dyke won Artzine of the Year in 2021. Learn more at christinahajjar.com.