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We love zines!
We have been working together to create zines for the past 5 years. Our first zine was designed to spread awareness for Menstrual Hygiene day and since then we have made zines about cycle touring, mental health, fatness, queer weddings and more!
In 2018 we founded the Edinburgh Zine Library in collaboration with the Art and Design Library at Edinburgh Central Library. The zine library has since become a strong community led organisation. Our zine filing cabinet has a collection of over 300 zines that can be read within the Central Library. We also offer both in person and digital workshops for organisations around the UK.
In 2020, Lili began work as a PhD researcher working on an AHRC CHASE funded project between the University of Kent and the Wellcome looking at the Wellcome library’s collection of health zines!
Um, what’s a zine?
Put simply, a zine is a homemade, DIY, publication, usually distributed in small batches by an individual or small group. Zines are not professionally made and are often created, printed and folded in people’s bedrooms. Classically zines are photocopied (usually sneakily on work photocopiers). The best way to work out what a zine is is to be shown a zine. Below you can find examples of digital and physical zines we have made as well as a video of a zine reading we made for Swansea Zine Fest.
A compilation of three zines we made for Menstrual Hygiene Day 2016. Featuring: Issue 1: Published in the lead up to World Menstrual Hygiene Day on May 28th, 2016. It focuses on why menstrual health and hygiene is such an important and pressing issue around the world. Issue 2: Looks at historical and modern stigma around menstruation and what we can do to tackle it. Issue 3: a smaller zine focusing on PMS and PMDD. Click on picture to read more about it.
Now sold out! The zine that became our book! A homemade, homespun zine with 20 pages of vegan campsite recipes, camping tips and cycle-touring goodness. Riso printed with the help of all our wonderful supporters on Kickstarter. We are planning to create a bumper Recipes 1 and 2 zine, so keep an eye out on our website for more news!
Now sold out! The second issue of Recipes for Wild Vegans is a homemade and homespun zine with 20 pages. In it we share our experiences of camping, cycling and finding vegan food abroad. This issue includes tips about bike maintenance, using a basic can opener and more, as well as a host of simple, delicious vegan recipes. Riso printed with the help of all our wonderful supporters on Kickstarter. We are planning to create a bumper Recipes 1 and 2 zine, so keep an eye out on our website for more news!
A 12 page A5 b&w comic book/zine about mental health and my first contact with mental health services when I was 17/18. Drawn with a brush pen. Content notes: self harm, suicide and detention under the mental health act.
Part of a series of comics exploring Lilith’s experience of mental health challenges. This zine explores ownership, loss and is inspired by the Mountain Goats song ‘Shadow Song’. A5 b&w photocopied zine, 8 pages.
An 8 page A5 bw comic zine about mental health and experiences of psychosis, specifically recounting the weekend before Lilith was sectioned in summer 2012. Hand drawn with brush pen and photocopied. Stapled. Part of an on going series. This zine was produced at the Cornwall Zine Library residency at Fish Factory Arts, Penryn.
A 20 page b&w A5 fanzine about my trip to the roller derby world cup in Manchester in 2018, including a full page tribute to the Trafford centre. Made using trad cut and paste, with a hand drawn cover. This zine was made during Lilith’s residency at Cornwall zine library at Fish Factory Arts Space in Penryn.
A mini zine made to bridge the gap between wild Vegans 3 and 4! A whistle stop tour of things we’ve learnt about wild camping on our last tour, and it folds out to an anti-recipe for the worst dish I’ve ever cooked on a camp stove.
Wild Vegans issue 3 leaves behind our first tour and focuses on the year and a half we spent living in Edinburgh afterwards. Interspersed with recipes are discussions of chronic illness, cycle rides in Scotland and a blow by blow account of our terrible flat! Risoprinted at Sunday’s Print in Glasgow, 32 pages, black and white, A5
Taking its name from the Marge Piercy poem we had as a reading, and inspired by a mini-zine that helped us out during planning our wedding, this zine breaks down some of the questions, choices and thoughts we had during the process of planning our civil partnership. Photocopied black and white 24 page A5 stapled zine.
A mini zine to empower and celebrate fat cyclists! You can download this one for free in our store
he first ever Cycle Touring Festival is now available to read for free. We had an amazing selection of submissions from around the world which showcase a huge variety of talent and different styles. This zine has stories, photos, drawings, routes, how-to tips, and reflections on the cycle touring festival past and present. To read the zine, click on the picture.
Our first Patreon Zine is an incomplete A to Z of cycle touring for mad and neurodivergent folks. It’s got tips and stories about making cycling and camping accessible if you’re neurodivergent. 32 pages long, photocopied zine.
A mini zine for our patreon all about weeing outside. Includes our favourite weeing positions for comfortable and discreet wees outdoors!
This is the second Cycle Touring Festival Zine made in collaboration with participants and speakers at the Virtual Cycle Touring Festival 2021. This zine is a record which tries to capture the community spirit of the festival. This is not a professional publication, but a celebration of cycle touring written and drawn by ordinary people about anything cycle touring related. Click picture to read.
The fourth in our Recipes for Wild Vegans series and currently only available on Patreon. This zine focuses on our second long cycle tour from Fife to Budapest and features simple recipes for very hot weather, as well as a guide to vegan eating in nine countries. Sign up to our Patreon to receive a copy.
Our first perzine and split zine (one half Abi and one half Lili). Personal discussions about queer baby making, Feel Good, power-kiting and social media. Includes two page insert of time travel erotica. Only available for patrons- click picture to sign up. 32 pages, black and white photocopied.