Zine was a digital publication from Philadelphia Printworks, active from 2013 to 2017. This archive preserves the work created during that time.

ZINE: A Digital Archive (2013–2017)

Troubling-the-Waters-the-Trouble-with-Boycotts Philadelphia Printworks

Troubling the Waters, the Trouble with Boycotts

By Myles E. Johnson @hausmuva It becomes hard to tell the difference between what resistance is and what is desperation. 2016 made that even clearer. The year has been exhausting...

Troubling the Waters, the Trouble with Boycotts

By Myles E. Johnson @hausmuva It becomes hard to tell the difference between what resistance is and what is desperation. 2016 made that even clearer. The year has been exhausting...

Sex-Slut-Power-Love Philadelphia Printworks

Sex, Slut, Power, Love

By Priscila Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez @priscadorcas | Photo by Jessica Rodriguez I was 23 years old when I met the person I thought was the love of my life. I...

Sex, Slut, Power, Love

By Priscila Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez @priscadorcas | Photo by Jessica Rodriguez I was 23 years old when I met the person I thought was the love of my life. I...

Pass-the-Sugar-The-Revival-of-the-Black-Femme-Narrative-in-Media Philadelphia Printworks

Pass the Sugar: The Revival of the Black Femme ...

By Taylor Steele @poetofsteele Despite this year being rife with political despair and monumental deaths in the art community, 2016 has been great for Black art — particularly for the...

Pass the Sugar: The Revival of the Black Femme ...

By Taylor Steele @poetofsteele Despite this year being rife with political despair and monumental deaths in the art community, 2016 has been great for Black art — particularly for the...

Looking-for-the-Body-JonBenet-Ramsey-Super-Predators-Missing-Black-Children Philadelphia Printworks

Looking for the Body: JonBenet Ramsey, Super Pr...

WORDS: MYLES E. JOHNSON In 1996, Hillary Clinton made the speech that includes her now infamous “super predators” line; a line that has echoed in the past year as a...

Looking for the Body: JonBenet Ramsey, Super Pr...

WORDS: MYLES E. JOHNSON In 1996, Hillary Clinton made the speech that includes her now infamous “super predators” line; a line that has echoed in the past year as a...

A-Reading-of-A-Seat-at-the-Table-as-a-Revival-for-Black-Millennials Philadelphia Printworks

A Reading of "A Seat at the Table" as a Revival...

By Ron E. Lynch, Jr. @atlasrey Our parents and grandparents have spent lifetimes trying to find the good and God in every damned situation that Black Americans have endured over...

A Reading of "A Seat at the Table" as a Revival...

By Ron E. Lynch, Jr. @atlasrey Our parents and grandparents have spent lifetimes trying to find the good and God in every damned situation that Black Americans have endured over...

Bleeding-Walls-How-We-Hang-Black-Art-in-Our-Homes Philadelphia Printworks

Bleeding Walls: How We Hang Black Art in Our Homes

By Joel L. Daniels @JoelakaMaG | Photo By Carrie Mae Weems My mother hangs pictures on her Bronx apartment walls of Black art and well known Black figures as if she...

Bleeding Walls: How We Hang Black Art in Our Homes

By Joel L. Daniels @JoelakaMaG | Photo By Carrie Mae Weems My mother hangs pictures on her Bronx apartment walls of Black art and well known Black figures as if she...