My Adventures with Adventures in Menstruating. A Case Study of Feminist Zinemaking and Period Positivity

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Chella Quint¹ 

[1] Lab4Living, Sheffield Hallam University;

关键词: zines;    graphic design;    menstruation;    case study;    design practice;   

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来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

From the pun Ad-ventures to the choice of glossy covers over a more DIY feel, Chella Quint’s Adventures in Menstruating zine pastiches the commercial, skewering menstrual product advertising messages and exposing recurring themes of secrecy, whispering, and “Leakage Horror”. Chris Bobel notes in New Blood: Third Wave Feminism and the Politics of Menstruation that most menstrual zinesters “eschew the glitz and gloss of corporate mass-produced material, generating instead a homespun and intimate look”, but Adventures in Menstruating emulates the corporate: each cover reimagines past publications where periods were usually absent: comic books, pulp novels, fashion magazines, science journals, war propaganda...This memoir-style case study uses autoethnography and humorously shares the rationale behind Adventures in Menstruating and how the project expanded from zines and craftivism into transmedia companion pieces, going from Ladyfest festivals to Maker Faires to mainstream galleries, seeding menstrual activism ideas within other artists. Zines provide immediacy and agency, underpinning projects that struggle to gain mainstream acceptance through established publishers or galleries. The author credits her community of helpers and tracks the opportunities the work created, showing how zinesters can use their art as activism, and create routes for an artist on the periphery to succeed within the establishment.

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