In September 2023, Tamsin Walker and Hel Spandler facilitated a madzines workshop at the International Creative Research Methods Conference in Manchester. One of the workshop participants, Suzannah Scott-Moncrieff, explains how zine-making put her in touch with her mad ancestry.
Hamja Ahsan has been actively involved in zine subcultures since the mid 1990’s. Hel interviewed him about his reflections on zine cultures and radical mental health zines.
Over the last few years our Madzines PhD researcher, Tamsin Walker, has been accumulating quite a collection of zines that are about, or at least touch on, dissociation. In this blog she reflects on ones that challenge common misconceptions about this experience.
In this guest blog, Tam Martin Fowles continues to reflect on the surprising healing qualities of her recent foray into zine-making, and highlights the power of respectful witnessing.
Prior to the start of the project we attended a Radical Zines Workshop, facilitated by Will Wright, an award winning illustrator, at Leicester Print Studio.