Reading and Writing for Justice with Middle Schoolers: Zines and Liberatory Composition.

This article explores how zines can be utilized to teach writing to middle school students. Zines, a genre of writing emphasizing liberation and justice, were central to a project aimed at encouraging students to participate in book club readings and subsequently write on themes related to their chosen books. The author concludes by highlighting that zines empower students' voices, allow them a means of queering composition, and enable them to envision a new world. [Extracted from the article]