Zine

Quick meaning: Zine is a noun meaning A low-circulation, noncommercial publication of original or appropriated texts and images, especially one of minority interest.

Meaning

A low-circulation, noncommercial publication of original or appropriated texts and images, especially one of minority interest.

Example Sentences

Zines contributed to an evolving critical language that would ultimately take two paths: into the gut or to the academy. The most compelling zines fused the two.

“Do you think Cal Bodian's over there? Do you think he'll sign my zine?” “♪♪ Bum, bada-dum. ♪♪ My P.I. Undercover fanzine. I've done everything myself. I just took a guess about the chest hair.”

The feminist zine community is not located in place but it geographically dispersed, constituting a connected flow of communicative practices, spaces, texts, technologies, bodies, and utterances.

While this may sound like a scene from the 1980s or 1990s – when zines were popular as a countercultural form of expression – this was a workshop in modern-day Los Angeles, where immigration raids and federal threats have left residents restless and scared.

Word Forms

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ben, zen, zain, zein, litzine, fanzine.

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