All Zines are Mental Health Zines
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.
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.
Tamsin Walker, our Madzines PhD student, explores zines and graphic memoirs from inside the experience of psychosis and dissociation.