Welcome to the February Research Zine Jam!
This jam invites everyone to produce a Zine (either physical or digital) on research they’ve done OR a correctly cited/referenced research paper they really love.
Why This Jam?
Faun and Hollis (us, the co-hosts!) are two people very passionate about research and learning. Once you leave a traditional academic setting, there seems to be a steep drop off in how often you get to nerd out on research, or even get to deep dive into a topic.
So - what do you do about that? You make a zine jam of course
The Goal: To celebrate research you love/has affected you and to make research more accessible.
Everyone is allowed to participate but we do have some ground rules:
The Rules
- Not required, but making something physical/that can be printed out is preferred! You can read a beginner-friendly guide here or if you want something more complicated here.
- The zine can be your own research OR a correctly cited/referenced research paper written by someone else. No matter what – your work must be properly cited unless truly all original.
- Be accurate, be careful, be specific. We want this information to be easily readable, but in making it easily readable, we shouldn’t make it inaccurate!
- No AI generated content.
- Don’t be hateful! No bigotry allowed.
How to Post/Submit
You can post a zine using the “book” option on itch.io! If you make it on paper originally, you can scan it into a digital file.
If posting on tumblr you can tag @hmooncreates and/or @paladinbaby. Reblogs will mostly come from @hmooncreates. If posting on Bluesky, you can tag @hmooncreates there as well.
When posting anywhere, use the tag #ResearchZineJam, so that we can all find each other’s posts!
Future Goals
Our goal is to run this jam every other month, with a two week posting period. This gives everyone a six-week period to get their research together, think, and even collaborate. We hope as we do this the zine gets bigger and more people get the chance to share information that’s passionate to them!