Zine Quest: Alternative Pedagogy & Community Building

1. Short Session Description. (~ 100 words)

Zines are powerful tools for self-expression, interrogating authority, and subverting homogenous media representation in the classroom. Working with faculty, students, and community partners, librarians Jennifer Eltringham and Carlos Duarte have developed programs at their institution as well as with local school districts and public libraries that use zines to foster individual agency, present alternative modes for publishing, and promote novel approaches for academic engagement. This workshop will empower attendees not only to develop zine programs in their own communities, but also to turn their unique personal interests into impactful pedagogical practice more generally. 

2. Session Format & Style. 

In this hands-on workshop, participants will use pen and paper to co-create a guidebook for embarking on their own quest to employ alternative pedagogical tools such as zines.

3. Takeaways

This workshop will encourage participants to create a zine that will help them develop a campaign to find potential collaborators, reach out to community partners, avoid pitfalls, and implement this form of culturally sustaining pedagogy in a variety of ways.

4. Organization

The two main organizers, Jennifer Eltringham and Carlos Duarte, will reach out to faculty and community partners who have collaborated with us in these projects to present multiple perspectives in the session

5. Contact Information

Jennifer Eltringham, Instruction Librarian, University of Colorado Colorado Springs – jeltring@uccs.edu, 719-255-3929

Carlos Duarte, Outreach and Intergeneration Librarian, University of Colorado Colorado Springs – cduarte@uccs.edu, 719-255-3017