Name: Teaching Through Zines: Land-Based Literacies for Creating, Healing, and Learning
Start: 2026-07-16T13:45:00-0600
End: 2026-07-16T15:15:00-0600

Teaching Through Zines: Land-Based Literacies for Creating, Healing, and Learning

Thursday July 16, 2026 1:45pm - 3:15pm MDT

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The goal of this workshop is to help our fellow teachers and relatives respond to the ancient, contemporary and future need of individuals, communities and nations to carry, nurture and create stories in relation to our experiences as land-based peoples. Students must have experiences on the land in order to honorably find, nurture and create stories that are relevant to continuing our land stewardship responsibilities. Stories provide powerful foundations from which to relate to the land, to learn upon/with the land, and empower youth to become land stewards, lifelong learners and storytellers. Students must work with surviving and relevant materials and resources in a creative way as colonization and other efforts have stifled, damaged and removed students and nations from relationships, opportunities and access to the land. Coupled with land-based experiences, stories and traditions, zines offer a collaborative and individual approach from which students are supported in their recognition, and development of their gifts, strengths, abilities, interests, languages, cultures, nations, experiences, traditions and joy. Zines as a creative format and methodology are introduced as a way to reinforce key literacy concepts such as the Reading and Writing Ropes, the drafting, writing and editing process of authorship, fluency, comprehension, critical thinking and analysis, as well as provide an uncensored medium for creative self-expression and storying. Participants will be invited to participate in an ImaginiNative Nature Walk, deep listening of a traditional story and perspectives from land-based educators and zinesters which reinforce the value that our stories support us to be land stewards, lifelong learners and storytellers. Participants will learn about the history and creation of zines, zine pedagogy and best practices, how to critically analyze a zine, create a mini-zine and contribute to a collectively produced zine.

Speakers

Joshua Frank Cardenas

University of New Mexico

Dr. Joshua Frank Cárdenas (Kanienʼkehá꞉ka-Rotinoshonni/White) is an Assistant Professor of Education at UNM Valencia. He has worked in education since 2003, teaching Pre-K to Ph.D. and began teaching at the college level in 2012. He has taught multiple PreK and K-12 settings... Read More →

Zoey “ZJ” Johnson

Zoey “ZJ” Johnson is an artist, student, and mentor working outside of the gender binary. Based in their work with zines and youth resistance, they focus their efforts around performance, community, and joy as disruption. Having just graduated with their Masters in Communication... Read More →

Thursday July 16, 2026 1:45pm - 3:15pm MDT
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