MSUM hosts People of Color Zine Project
MSUM will be hosting the People of Color (POC) Zine Project and their panel discussion series Beyond ‘MEET ME AT THE RACE RIOT’ on Wednesday, Oct. 30 in CMU Ballroom, 6-10 p.m.
The rise of the punk subculture in the ’70s spawned a new interest in self-publishing. While punk and riot grrrl have become the subject of much retrospection and analysis in recent years, it has failed to center race as a crucial factor or to observe punks of color as a vital presence. The POC Zine Project organized their first tour, MEET ME AT THE RACE RIOT, on September 2012 as a way to interrupt this void. Taking the Race Riot! Tour on the road again, the POC Zine Project will be coming through Moorhead for an event at MSUM.
Join us for light refreshments and a Meet & Greet Zine Tabling at 6 p.m. This is a great opportunity to meet the POC Zine Project tour members as well as purchase their zines. The program, featuring the live reading of zines by the tour members and local “zinesters”, as well as music will begin at 7 p.m.
* Zines are independently or self-published booklets. They are often created by a single person but can be a collaborative effort as well. Zines are customarily created by physically cutting and gluing text and images together for photocopying and can be bound in any manner.