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Allie Scholten (she/her) is Midwest-born, living in Chicago and working across libraries and archives. Her work focuses on collage and mail art, using archival materials to reinterpret long-held histories. Find her on Instagram: @for.namessake Join us for the inaugural South Side Zine Fest at 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, July 26 at the Richard J. Daley…

Want to get involved with South Side Zine Fest? We’re looking for volunteers to help out on the day of the event! We’ll need assistance with the following tasks: Set-up, breakdown, greeting fest attendees/answering questions, staffing zinemaking stations, and covering exhibitors’ tables so they can take breaks. If you’d like to sign up for a…

Midwest Perzine Fest, organized by founder Jonas (they/them), Angel (they/them), Red (they/them), and Alex (she/her, they/them), is a Midwest- and Chicago-centric zine fest that celebrates the radical, DIY art of perzines. The inaugural MWPZF was held online on October 10th, 2020. In 2021, they hosted a snail-mail perzine swap in lieu of a fest. The…

Jen Chavez (she/her) is a Chicana illustrator and comic artist. Her zines focus on various mental illnesses, troubles with catholicism, and the occasional natural disaster When she’s not drawing she likes to pace around Chicago for as long as possible. Find her on Instagram: @Jen.kneefer Join us for the inaugural South Side Zine Fest at…

Marimacha Monarca Press is an artist and educator collective of, by and for queer & trans familia based on the southside of Chicago since 2017. MMP provides workshops in printmaking, seed paper making, piñata making, and zine-making as a means of self publication, communication, and reflection. Working alongside themes of queerness, race, language, migration, accessibility,…

Teddie Bernard (they/he) is a queer cartoonist, writer, and printmaker. His work explores queer identity, history, and connection. They spend their time refurbishing obsolete printers and researching obscure lesbians. Find them on Tumblr at @tea-ddie and on BlueSky at @tea-ddie Join us for the inaugural South Side Zine Fest at 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, July…

Midwest Books to Prisoners wields the printed word as the weapon of choice to break down prison walls and build bridges of solidarity. We fight to undermine the lack of access to communication and education while amplifying voices the system silences by helping people self-publish their works as zines. Find them on Instagram: @midwestbooks2p Join…

Río (they/them) at Amor as Lucha is a migrant nonbinary brown person who makes arty zines about life and random things. Find them in Instagram at @amoraslucha +@fediverse; on Bluesky at https://bsky.app/profile/echeri.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy; and on Mastodon at https://mastodon.art/@echeri Join us for the inaugural South Side Zine Fest at 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, July 26 at the Richard…

The Support Ho(s)e Collective is a small Leftist formation of queer and trans* sex workers (current and former) and their trusted co-conspirators based in the Midwest, South, and Northeast. They work to build radical community for all sex workers through political education and public agitation. They also coordinated the Justice for Alisha Walker Defense Campaign.…

Rojas (they/them) is a farmer, bike mechanic, songwriter and zinemaker. Their zines hate borders, binaries, and boredom. Find them on Instagram: @desvelosydudas Join us for the inaugural South Side Zine Fest at 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, July 26 at the Richard J. Daley Branch of the Chicago Public Library, 3400 S. Halsted St. in Bridgeport.…