Cutting up magazines for a collage, writing a diary entry, drawing a self-portrait, coming up with a haiku: This isnât fifth grade. Itâs the Emily Taylor Centerâs virtual zine club, and it is much more than arts and crafts. A zine, short for fanzine, is a radical medium that lives outside the confines of the publishing and journalism industry. Zines are self-made with self-published texts and images often stapled together and reproduced with copy machines. They have history in the punk and feminist movements, and often deal with social justice issues by being used to spread messages. Zines have a reputation as the medium of the unheard. You donât need a degree or credentials to get your message out there through zines. They are often traded or sold for little money.