Five notes on zines:
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Zine:
a noncommercial often homemade or online publication usually devoted to specialized and often unconventional subject matter.
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Zine:
Popular these days in a maker/creator economy, as a way for people to share their work in an egalitarian rather than hierarchical way.
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I run Limns as a passionate project, because it builds space into my life to write and ponder in a way that is enriching to me. The best way you can support this project and ensure I can continue doing it and paying my visual collaborators is to purchase a zine (or three) and/or subscribe to the newsletter. Your support is much appreciated.
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The word ‘zine’ comes from ‘fanzine’, which was a magazine, usually produced by amateurs, for fans of a particular performer, group, or form of entertainment. Fanzine, in turn, is derivative of ‘magazine’, which, in the 16th century, meant “warehouse, place for storing goods, especially military ammunition,” from the French Magasin,
"warehouse, depot, store" all the way back to the Arabic khazana "to store up." The first time magazine was used in its current sense was in 1731, with the publication of Gentleman’s Magazine. This was ostensibly a logical word to use because the word had been used in association with lists of military stores and information, and also, scholars note, because of the figurative sense of a magazine being a ‘storehouse’ of information.
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If you would like to support Limns, you can email me at finnegan.shepard@gmail.com, and I will provide instructions on how to buy a copy (or three) through Venmo or Paypal.
