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"Musings of a #Lonely Feminist": Solidarity, Dreams, Complaints, and Memories
“Who is the lonely feminist?” This is the question that begins each of the issues of the Austin-based zine, “Musings of a #Lonely Feminist”. The “lonely feminist” is a term explained throughout the zine: it is the feminist who wants so desperately to share their experiences and wants justice in gender equality, but does not know if anyone shares the same sentiments. The Feminist Action Project at the University of Texas at Austin was created to be a community for people like this. Through the Feminist Action Project, people of all sorts could come together and share their thoughts in a safe and helpful environment. From this organization came this zine, an artistic expression of those thoughts. A striking thing about zines is their rawness which adds authenticity, concerning feminism, to this zine which other resources may not have. This zine is a vulnerable and beautiful collection of poems, stories, artwork, and much more that ultimately forms a diverse record of the modern young American feminist experience.
Content Warnings: Nudity, Graphic Language, Triggers (Depression, Anxiety, Suicide, Sexual Assault, Abuse, Self-Harm, Eating Disorders, Violence).
Exploring the Social Inequality of Austin, Texas as Documented by Local Zine, "Canned"
In his 2014 Raw Paw Press zine, "Canned," artist Sean Morgan examines the ever-widening gaps between the Austin community's rich, poor, and the somewhere-in-between. In an honest, yet unconfrontational way, Morgan throws these discrepancies into high-relief with a dialogue that highlights prejudice and misconceptions, exclusion and inclusion, and human idiosyncrasies that transcend the social boxes that we like to invent.
"Canned" explores the issues of socioeconomic inequality, privilege, and the decreasing affordability of Austin, Texas in the early 2010's.