By Morrigan Ivy

It feels fitting and necessary for our first blog post to explain what the hell a zine even is. A fair question. In simple terms a zine is a work of appropriated or original text/images complied into a booklet that is self-published. Often, they have small and limited runs circulated in a specific geographical location.

That’s an extremely loose definition because zines encompass a huge range of topics, lengths, and “professional” appearances. They can be used as political manifestos, poetry collections, personal essays, to express a love for a piece of media or to explore just about any topic. If you can think of a topic a zine will exist of it somewhere.

The most common and easy zine to find is what I like (and many others) to call a mini zine. Made from folding a piece of a4 paper into 8 sections, these tiny zines are the perfect way to share ideas and artwork.

What’s most important to me about zines is how they allow minorities to get their voices heard. Publishing is a hugely gatekept industry and regulated, of course we get many amazing books but so many important things are rejected. Zines give a space for everyone to be heard, it’s why starting this distro is important to me. Everyone deserves a space to be heard.