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Vinony

zine

noun

  1. a noncommercial often homemade or online publication usually devoted to specialized and often unconventional subject matter
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ziːn/

noun

Etymology: Shortened from fanzine, ultimately from magazine; from 1965.

  1. A low-circulation, noncommercial publication of original or appropriated texts and images, especially one of minority interest.

    “Zines contributed to an evolving critical language that would ultimately take two paths: into the gut or to the academy. The most compelling zines fused the two.”

    “The feminist zine community is not located in place but it geographically dispersed, constituting a connected flow of communicative practices, spaces, texts, technologies, bodies, and utterances.”