If books and texts are being banned, this is because of fear that the ideas they contain are contagious. We think they are, in terms of both their message and social cohesion. So what of it? Punk zine culture from the ’80s and ’90s produced a counterculture and spread it globally. Zines are now seeing a resurgence as a form of DIY, independent, artistic publishing – a great counter to gate-kept institutional structures of knowledge production. But old-school zines also created shared community, epistolary relationships, and queer kinship. This workshop with Flip Driest (Kiosk Rotterdam) and Lani Hanna (Interference Archive) centers the social aspect of zine publishing through texts and archival materials that call to mind queer contagion and leakages. How do we spill in/out through the cracks in institutional structures?

Come as you are or bring texts and images for cutting, pasting, re-ordering, writing and collective publishing.

Part of the Contagious & Queer program.