Queerborough Zine Workshop

Join us for our third Zine-Making workshop, hosted by zine-artist Wasifa Noshin and partnered with The ArQuives! The workshop takes place on Wednesday, July 22^nd at the Scarborough Museum, from 2:00-5:00 pm!

Zines have long functioned as queer counter-archives: informal, embodied, and collective forms of knowledge-making which resist the limits of official documentation. Writing about zines as participatory archives, scholar T. Honma (2016) argues that zine culture enables marginalized communities to document themselves while actively producing new forms of collective identity and community.

This Queerborough zine workshop intends to build on that tradition by approaching zine-making as a queer archival and pedagogical practice rooted in PLACE. Centering Scarborough, we will explore how queerness is lived and remembered outside of downtown cores and institutional archives. Rather than asking participants to produce polished narratives, this workshop embraces fragmentation and mess not as failures of documentation, but as central to queer world and knowledge-making. Participants are invited to think with questions such as: Who is this for? What does it mean to archive ourselves? How do our individual experiences connect to longer histories of queer survival and care? And, most importantly, what does Queer Scarborough mean to you?

Although not required, we encourage everyone to come in with gathered scrap-booking materials (perhaps, a donation box of old books and magazines) and ready to get their hands dirty!