My main reason for postponing the end of the world is so that we've always got time for one more story. If we can make time for that, then we'll be forever putting off the world's demise.
— Ailton Krenak
Soon, people would lose their relationship to something called free time. We would no longer be bored, for there was always something to do or buy, something new to look up and learn about, some conversation to crash. But, at the time, there was nothing better than a Friday with no plans, alone to tinker with my zine. The expansiveness of a free night, writing so that I might appear in my own lines, even if nobody would ever read them. A series of one-sided crusades, all these manifestos that circulated among a cadre of two or three. It was only in my zine that I admitted to dreaming of anything great. In real life, I feared stepping into too large a world and failing. But I wrote things that were earnest and open, that I would never dare say out loud.
— Hua Hsu
"Zines are critical for alternative expression, ownership of own voice & experience, 'intimate epiphanies'. They challenge power structures of knowledge ownership, capitalism's atomisation & authorship value-chain."