ASK ME ANYTHING with Justin Wigard -- Zines and Zine-Making as Critical Pedagogy.

Earlier this year, I taught ENG 342: "Playful Literature and Literary Games," a special topics literature seminar geared around the intersections between play and literature. As a result, this course centered zines, smallscale and handmade publications that offer opportunities for marginalized voices to make themselves heard. This culminated in a project where students forged their own entry point into these popular genres by creating a zine related to play, games, or taking the form of a game-zine. Because zines are an intimate literary form designed for smallscale distribution and are handcrafted, the zine stands as a perfect entry point to blending scholarship with creation, design with theory. Throughout the day, I will be online talking through approaches to teaching zines in the online classroom, particularly approaches to incorporating, analyzing, and making zines. Come ask me anything!