Publications from all three phases of the Reading the Migration Library were popular at last week’s Zine Swap, hosted by the students of the summer course, “Independent Publishing and the Democratic Multiple” (instructed by Jean Chisholm with the …
RML Mail Art
Publications from Belgium
It is always delightful to receive publications by the poet-nymph Liza Leyla (Eliza Muylaert). As I wrote in a previous post, Liza Leyla’s mailed publications are keeping the project Renegade Library and the memory of Guido Vermeulen alive. In the …
Exchanging Prompts
Let’s say that 2025 is the year of creative prompts, over here at RML HQ. It is now six months into Everyday Things, a year-long series of creative provocations in mail art by Cyndy Chwelos. Just before the start of the year, Chwelos invited a …
Social Justice Zine-Making Celebration
Reading the Migration Library (RML) publications were exchanged –and even created—at an end-of-semester zine party put on by the Social Justice Community of Practice (SJ CoP) at Emily Carr University. The SJ CoP is facilitated by ECU faculty …
Three Generations Happy Family
The publication Three Generations Happy Family by Jenie Gao takes the form of a three-section menu to mimic those found in Chinese food restaurants operated by immigrant families like Gao’s. The contents of this one recount in a timeline the …