Miami-Dade · Broward · Palm Beach
Miami-Dade · Broward · Palm Beach
Zines, pamphlets and printed matter that carry the local movement off the screen and into somebody’s hands.
You can send somebody the directory. Whether they open it is a separate question, and most of the time the answer is later.
Plenty of the people who make this place run are on no platform we publish to. Reaching them through a feed means not reaching them.
Anything we host can be throttled, blocked or switched off by somebody else. Paper cannot be deprecated.
Three things, and it starts with what is already written.
The dispatches — the long reads about panas building this economy — get written and published first. The press begins by putting them on paper.
Short runs designed alongside panas who draw, letter and lay out. A zine is a collaboration, and the people making it are in the directory.
Stacks go to markets, shops and events to be given away. There is no subscriber list, because the whole point is that it travels without one.
A zine you can put in someone's hands at a market. No link to send, no app to install, no reason for them to say later.
Long reads from the people building South Florida's local economy — published now, and the raw material for what gets printed first.
Paper keeps working when a platform changes its mind. That is the whole argument for a community owning a press of its own.
A zine handed to someone at a market reaches further than a post does, and it is still there next year. The press is how the movement travels off the screen.