"Putting out a zine, any zine, is a political act. Whether it's the high school kid who does a zine about Sloan, or the collective's newsletter advocating environmental awareness, both are reclaiming what was essentially theirs to begin with."

A zine is a unique outlook in which one can apply their thoughts on paper in such a way that it makes it difficult for readers to ignore what they write and express. Zines allow someone to be creative about what they are trying to articulate and the possibilities are endless.There aren't any limitations to zines, in that anyone can assemble them in any way that they wish and this makes every zine made a sole representation of one's self.

They are meant to be straight from the mind, straight from the heart and meant to make an effect on a reader to any degree, being it humourous, disheartening, anything. I had the chance to make my first zine quite some time ago. I honestly didn't know what to expect coming into 'zine day', considering I didn't exactly know what a zine was, but once we got under way, there was no looking back. We were given the challenge of making a zine within the 5 period (period), and there was no time to be indecisive. I enjoyed it because we got to do anything that we wanted, and my group decided to go with my idea with movies and such.

It gave us the opportunity to talk about our favourite movies and things that we had on our mind about particular films we've seen. We each had a lot to say on the subject, so we had more than enough information to squeeze into the zine. Surprisingly (sarcastically speaking), we didn't finish our zine in time. Yeah, I wanted to get it done by the end of the day, but at the same time I didn't really want to. I wanted it to be just perfect, and I was somewhat relieved that we had the chance to work on it somemore--Basically, I just wanted to talk about my experiences with this zine after reading the quote above. It reminded me of this experience., as it definitely relates to the quote.