Hi folks!
I’m Emilee G. H.(she/they), owner of Apocalypse Zines. Starting this journey was kind of an accident, but I’m excited to see where it takes me.
My first zine, Queer fREADom (vol. 1), was made as an alternative to a final paper for a graduate course I took with Dr Naomi Mae. Queer fREADom (vol. 2) is already in the works, and will focus more on the censorship aspect of Queer Literacies.
But why “Apocalypse Zines”?
Well, for starters, have you seen the news lately?
That aside, the “apocalypse” part comes from what I learned taking a course with Dr. Jen Rose Smith (a dAXunhyuu / Eyak geographer). She introduced me to the idea that the apocalypse is not a singular, world-stopping event, but that many populations have all gone through their own distinct apocalypses. As someone long-acquainted with feelings of doom, the fact that apocalypses happen everywhere, all the time was both a concern and comfort to me. The entire world may feel on fire, and we may not be able to fix it, but maybe, just maybe, we can survive anyways.
So yeah, my entire world feels on fire, but I want to find the things worth living for, worth fighting for. That’s why it’s Apocalypse Zines.
“Packing for the Apocalypse” (a paper based on my time in Smith’s course) has been published in the Fall 2025 edition of the Madison Journal of Literary Criticism.
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