SEXTANT: masculinities, sexualities & decolonialities

ABSTRACT

Zines and zine-making have long existed as creative, queer, dispersed formats for platforming marginalised voices and radical political ideas. Zines as a textual product have increasingly been incorporated in academic literature while integrating zine-making into participatory research processes is additionally being used to challenge hegemonic conceptions of academic work. This article, however, acknowledges a distinct lack of focus on zines which are rooted in queer spiritualities and queer religious communities, namely, queer Judaisms. This article will explore how zines which explore queer Judaisms and queer Jewish experiences contain liberatory, transformative potentialities and are constructed in a ‘queer use of time’. This article will explore how such zines can be examined as a collective community archive and how these zines subvert normative sexual and gender scripts by examining several queer Jewish zines utilising intersectional categories of religion, sexuality and gender, and identity.

KEY WOrDS

Zines; Zine-making; Queer Judaisms; Queer Jewish Zines

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