PZF '23: Prickly Pear Zine Collective

Our group is made up of young adults in their 20s who are friends. Otherwise, our identities begin to diverge from one another. The majority of us are neurodivergent/mentally ill/mentally disabled and queer. Some of us are people of color, some of us are white. I know for a fact that at least one of us (me the person writing this) is Latino, but I won't speak for anyone else in Prickly Pear Zine Collective. We are visual artists, story tellers, and zine enthusiasts.

Many of us have either worked or went to the same university together where we bonded over our mutual love of zines and visual art as a whole. We keep in touch outside of zine work, but still inspire new ideas in each other.

Themes include love and excitement prevail throughout our zines. Whether this be love for others, ourselves, or even niche topics such as the inner working of teeth, animation, math, anthropology, cats, coyotes, geese, fruit, fishing etc. there is an unapologetic love for the world as we all see it.

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