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Collection at Pratt Institute Libraries and general information about Zines
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A Meditation Companion for Black Life

Visualizes the breath cycle with abstracted imagery of Black revolts and sun cycles. Part of a larger series of work balancing historical and community research of injustice with personal and collective care for restorative energy.

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Anxiety Toolkit

A.E.H. lists strategies she uses on a day-to-day basis to help manage her anxiety. She discusses different forms of meditation and ways to break up and manage chunks of time. She emphasizes that she uses the techniques in conjunction with psychiatric treatment and medication. This cut and paste zine is printed on colored pages.

A Perfectly Normal Jack-in-the-box

An exploration of the mechanics of the Jack-in-the-box, and how the toy can be seen as a metaphor for trauma-induced anxiety.

hands on pink abstract background

Shutters

Fragmented memories from a past unhealthy relationship are revisited and examined through poetry and collage in this zine.

Trump's head on blue paper with sans-serif text

Do you have nightmares about Trump, or the Trumpian landscape?

A call for submissions for Donald Trump-related nightmares, which will be published on trumpnightmares.tumblr.com

sunflower with cut and paste letters over it

You Are Strong

This is a zine of scanned collaged images of flowers, medication prescriptions, and handwritten Twenty One Pilots lyrics.

watercolor illustration of city street

Big Fat Femme no. 2 : Fat in Public

A "queer, fat, white, cis femme with invisible disabilities," shares her experiences with discrimination. She mentions strangers mistaking her as pregnant, feeling uncomfortable in bathroom stalls and church pews, eating in public, using the subway system, and accessibility for fat people.

The Basil Plant: A Comic

A feminist minicomic about a woman attempting to cope with her anxieties using various strategies (eating a pear in the sun, growing a basil plant). She discovers the source of her anxiety is being a woman. After being magically transformed into a man and peeing on the world, her anxieties disappear. 

one deer telling another to shut up

I Have a Big Stupid Mouth

A zine about talking too much but having nothing real to say.

Hop Up Onto the Scale

Just the phrase 'hop on the scale for me' can cause anxiety, even in people who don't identify as fat or don't have an above-average BMI. These are some of the strategies I've learned to self-advocate over the years. 

Magical Art Therapy

Magical Art Therapy is an ongoing collection of sigils-or magical images-that use a symbolic visual language inspired by nature, mythology, and occult practices like alchemy and the tarot to address topics related to mental illness, trauma, and surviving in an unkind world.

blue lines crossing over green background

Diagnosing a Psychopath

An overview of the symptoms of psychopathy and a history of its diagnosis, beginning from the origin of the term in 1888 by German psychiatrist J.L.A Koch, to Dr. Hervey Cleckley's re-definition in 1941, to the Hare psychopath checklist developed by Robert Hare in the 1970s, to modern brain imaging techniques.

crying ghost says you are allowed to have feelings

Authentic Affirmations pt. 1

"You Are Allowed to Have Feelings" An original collection of watercolour works paired with affirming messages.

shiny green circle reading still here still queer

Authentic Affirmations pt. 3

"Still Here, Still Queer" An original collection of watercolour works paired with affirming messages.

line drawing of hair in a braid

Hair Care

A series of drawings with text about the author's experience with stress-related hair loss.

photo of bingo cards on corkboard

BINGO

Part sci-fi adventure, part irreverent fable, this project comes to life as a time travelers playbook. The reader is invited to become collaborator and log their explorations and findings along-side the authors.


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