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Information Literacy

2015

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Dawn Stahura

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Feeling The Feels: Using Zines As Primary Sources In Student Research, Dawn Stahura Oct 2015

Feeling The Feels: Using Zines As Primary Sources In Student Research, Dawn Stahura

Dawn Stahura

A year ago I started the Zine Collection at Simmons with just $100.

A year ago I decided to approach one of my Sociology faculty members with the idea of incorporating zines in her class. She and I are both from the Riot GRRRL era and produced our own zines. She was game. We decided to test pilot zines with her Inequality course which has a mixture of sociology students and nursing students. We hoped this would allow her students to connect more with the material.

Why zines?