Dichotomy Deconstruction

Dichotomy Deconstruction in Feminist Zines: Notes from the Margin, (B)orderland,

Jake Mahr

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Research Questions: What language do zine authors use: 1. To identify themselves?

2. To identify their audience?

3. To describe normative identity dichotomies?

4. To describe the “margin,” “(b)orderland,” and “third space” that they exist in outside of normative identity dichotomies?

The purpose of this study is to understand how particular zine authors use the zine medium to discourse in and about a “margin,” “(b)orderland,” and “third space” that exists outside of normative identity dichotomies such as those of race, gender, sexuality, sex, and citizenship.

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R e v i e w • ANNE HAYS “Reading the Margins: Embedded Narratives in Feminist Personal Zines” (2017)

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GLORIA ANZALDÚA Borderlands – La Frontera (1987)

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ADELA C. LICONA “(B)orderlands’ Rhetorics and Representations: The Transformative Potential of Feminist Third-Space Scholarship and Zines” (2005) Zines in Third Space: Racial Cooperation and Borderlands Rhetoric (2012)

How does the zine form allow zine authors the space to disrupt normalized narrative structures?

the possibility o embedded metatex f t ual narratives?

Identities in the (U.S./Mexico) borderland.

• Geographic borderland • Citizenship borderland • Race borderland • Sexuality borderland

Not either/or, but both/and.

The third-space outside of dichotomies

Atton (2002); Schilt (2003); Comstock (2001); Lonsdale (2015); Erickson (2013); Lymn (2014); Bold (2017)

Design

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Themes to be coded for: • The dichotomy in focus • Conception of self (in regards to dichotomy) • Conception of audience (in regards to dichotomy) • Conception of the “margin,” “(b)orderland,” or “third space”

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Unit of Analysis: Zine Article Universe: Zines focusing on particular identity dichotomies, published after 2000

Methodology Important Categories: • Dichotomy (Sex, Sexuality, Gender, Race, Citizenship) • Identity of author • Theme/Purpose of the zine

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Theoretical sampling: Choosing zines that focus and discuss dichotomies directly

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Develop Protocol + Select Categories Choose Zines

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Collect Final Data + Analyze

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Atton, C. (2002). What use is a zine? identity-building and social signification in zine culture. In Alternative Media (pp. 54-79). London: SAGE Publications.

Comstock, M. (2001). Grrrl Zine Networks: Re-Composing Spaces of Authority, Gender, and Culture. Jac, 21(2), 383-409.

Erickson, Camille, “Querying Sex, Gender, and Race through the Queercore Zine Movement: G.B. Jones and Vaginal Davis Protest Conformity” (2013). Gateway Prize for Excellent Writing.

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Lonsdale, Chelsea (2015) “Engaging the “Othered”: Using Zines to Support Student Identities,” Language Arts Journal of Michigan: Vol. 30: Iss. 2, Article 4.

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Schilt, K. (2003). “Ill Resist with Every Inch and Every Breath”. Youth & Society, 35(1), 71-97. doi:10.1177/0044118x03254566