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We Write with Scissors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Terri Kapsalis
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On our frigid first day of class, one week after donald trump's inauguration, my coteacher, christa donner, and I began our course Community Zine Projects at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with the question, Why zines now? In this era of blogs and Twitter, these tiny-edition handmade paper publications might seem irrelevant. So why take this class? The answers offered by this group of undergraduate and graduate student artists, writers, scholars, and educators were inspiring.

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Theories and Methodologies
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PMLA , Volume 133 , Issue 1 , January 2018 , pp. 146 - 153
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Copyright © 2017 The Modern Language Association of America

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