Zine
I launched a digital zine in February 2025. More recently I’ve been experimenting with paper zines. My zines are personal projects, unrelated to my professional work as an educational researcher and writer. Like the zines of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, my zines are a mostly underground affair, passed from reader to reader. I typically produce free digital zines every few months and distribute them via email with an explanatory note. I also produce paper zines on various themes. Join my email list at the button below to receive digital zines and announcements of my paper zines.
Digital Zines
I’ve produced digital zines since February 2025. Issues typically correspond to a theme and are emailed to folks on my mailing list. Access past issues at the link below.
Paper Zines
I’ve produced paper zines of various sizes and formats since December 2025. See descriptions and purchase recent paper zines at the link below.
Call for Submissions:
Contribute a Square to a People’s Zine Quilt by Sept. 30, 2026
Fifty years ago, a group of women from the Mountain View/Los Altos area created a People's Bicentennial Quilt made up of squares documenting personally significant events and movements in American history that were given short shrift textbook narratives. Among them were the Trail of Tears, Child Labor, Red Baiting in Union Strikes, the Palmer Raids, Lynching, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, and the Prison Movement. (You can read more about this incredible effort in Connie Young Yu's book, Patchwork History: The People's Bicentennial Quilt. A replica of the quilt is also currently on view at the Los Altos History Museum.)
As our country commemorates 250 years since the Declaration of Independence was signed, I'm assembling a zine made up of "quilt squares" lifting up American histories and narratives that often fly under the radar. Please submit your square through the form at the button below by September 30, 2026. I'll choose some for inclusion in the zine, but everyone who submits a square will receive a copy of the zine in the mail.
Remember: Your contribution should be a square but there are no requirements beyond that. Please use any colors or media that you'd like! It can be abstract or realistic. It can be mostly words or mostly pictures. Create however you'd like!
Educators, I’m happy to host “zine bees” over Zoom or in-person where students can construct their squares. Please reach out if you are interested!
Questions? Reach out to Rachel at rachel.ann.burstein@gmail.com.
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As is probably obvious, this is not a money-making enterprise and I will not be sharing or selling your email address.
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