#zinesagainstzionism — Public Fediverse posts
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My anarchic Palestinian solidarity lit tables may not be the most photogenic, but I’ve given away more free zines in person—from an ever-increasing batch of titles—in the past 50+ days than I have since the pandemic began. A lot! There’s an eagerness to learn; there’s an openness to ideas and alternatives.
Each time, as folks gladly, voluntarily, and appreciatively take zines, it underscores for me that paper—humble 8.5x11 copy paper—can be a powerful “weapon” in our arsenal of the #ArtOfResistance. The stuff of shifting hearts and minds, which in turn can shift practices, organizing, and actions.
Paper can also be a cruel weapon in the state’s arsenal. Repeatedly, the Israeli government has dropped zine-like flyers from planes that likely drop bombs too, with increasingly absurd and terrifying instructions to those on the ground in Gaza. The stuff of shifting humans from their homes or hospitals, with barely enough time for their hearts and minds to process the magnitude of loss, nor avoid genocide. Or there’s the paper used by other states to write orders for military hardware to ship to Israel, or the paper of politicians used for legislation to affirm hate and murder.
Paper matters, far more than beyond its weight. Indeed, maybe its lightness, its seeming insubstantiality, is deceptive.
Not that the countless zines I cart around and gift out—or the DIY library books a friend of mine just told me they tabled with and loaned out at a public, rad Jew Shabbat in solidarity with Palestine, or the paper that gets utilized for public screen-printing efforts to make rad, artsy posters for solidarity demos, or the tissue paper we cry into so as to mourn the dead well and better find resilience to continue our fight for the living—is enough to blanket this world with the kind of wholesale social transformation that’s necessary for any sort of liberatory path out of this bloodlust mess.
Yet maybe—just maybe—what we put on our paper does in fact “paper the way” toward far more than we can imagine, because we’re already imagining lives beyond their borders, their prisons, their statist murder machines.