Mar 4 2024

Let’s make Zines!: Communal Modes of Communication Beyond Recognition

March 4, 2024

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM CST

Location

GSC Flex Space, 183 BSB

Address

1007 W. Harrison St., Chicago, IL 60607

Cost

FREE

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Zines (pronounced “zeens”) are one of the oldest forms of do-it-yourself (DIY) publication designed with the intent of circulating knowledge often understood as criminal. Some early iterations of zines include written direction from formerly enslaved Black folks to enslaved Black folks on how to emancipate themselves in nineteenth century America; people living with HIV sharing health resources prior to medication access in the 1980s and 90s; transgender people sharing ways to transition one’s gender in light of state policies criminalizing transition and transness since at least the mid-twentieth century and into today; feminists of many genders sharing information on reproductive justice including abortion access before Roe v Wade made abortion access federally legal and after it was overturned in 2022 to today. Join Drs. Lore/tta LeMaster and Greg S. Hummel to discuss the history of zines and to co-construct a community zine of our innovative design.

Co-sponsored by the Undergraduate Student Government.

Speakers bios below.

Contact

GSC
lgbtqa@uic.edu

Date posted

Feb 27, 2024

Date updated

Feb 27, 2024

Speakers

Greg Hummel, Ph.D. | Associate Professor, Chairperson | Communication & Media Department, SUNY Oneonta

Dr. Greg Hummel (he/they) is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies, Affiliate Faculty of Women’s and Gender Studies, and Chairperson of the Communication and Media Department at SUNY Oneonta. Greg earned their doctorate at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Broadly, he is interested in conceptualizations of identity, voice, agency, social justice activism, and queer worldmaking globally and locally. Their research is framed within critical, interpretative, and performative paradigms that center questions of power, privilege, marginalization, and oppression across various intersecting identities including gender, sexuality, race, class, disability, religion, ethnicity, nationality, and size. His more recent publication focuses on learning-unlearning- relearning gender and sexual performativity as a mechanism for autoethnographic inquiry and queer worldmaking. Their current scholarly projects include editing a collection of critical essays that offer a survey of communication theories and methods as they connect with college student experiences. Greg also embraces a critical feminist and queer pedagogy in each of their courses. He has taught an array of courses, including Gender and Communication, Intercultural Communication, and Argumentation, and is currently teaching and introductory large-lecture survey course, Perspectives on Communication, and a senior-level capstone course, Speaking for Social Change.

Lore/tta LeMaster, Ph.D. | Associate Professor | Hugh Downs School of Human Communication, Arizona State University

A world-breaker, -maker and avid eater of donuts and tacos, Dr. Lore/tta LeMaster (she/they) is an award- winning critical/cultural scholar of communication who engages the intersectional constitution of cultural difference with particular focus on trans and queer of color life, art, and embodiment. Her work braids the social sciences with the humanities in service of liberatory political praxes. Recent results include critical qualitative investigations into trans life; meta-interrogations of disciplinary complacency in US settler empire-making through communication; rhetorical analyses of the historic criminalization of racialized sexualities; and performative explorations of sensorial economies. Dr. LeMaster is an uninvited settler who lives, loves, and creates on stolen Akimel O'otham and Piipaash land recently called Arizona and where she serves as associate professor of critical/cultural communication and performance studies in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University. There, she directs the Intersections of Civil, Critical, and Creative Communication (I-4C) Research Collaborative, which leverages civil, critical, and creative communication resources in service of social change in addition to founding and organizing the Trans and Gender Expansive Research and Pedagogy Collective, an interdisciplinary (un)coalition in support of trans students and scholars as well as scholars who center transness in their study.