Youth Safety and Equity Info-Zines | Stop Sexual Assault in Schools

The Youth Safety and Equity Info-Zines project invites you to transform important information about safety, relationships, and education equity into creative zines that educate communities and ignite change!

Participants will create zines with information from Stop Sexual Assault in Schools (SSAIS) toolkits and webpages (listed below), photocopy them, and distribute them in their communities. Zines can also be shared to the SSAIS Youth Safety and Equity Info-Zines webpage for download and additional distribution. Download the flyer and graphics to share this project with others. View our growing gallery.

Creators of outstanding zines will receive special recognition/prizes. Zine authors may have their first name, club, or organization’s logo on the zine and/or SSAIS website. This is an ongoing project. Get started anytime!

You may also download, print, and distribute zines from our growing zine gallery and share your project as a short blog or reel on the website.

Participants

Youth age 12+, adult allies, members of school clubs, college students, teachers, librarians, school counselors, youth-serving community organizations, national nonprofits, gender equity advocates, and everyone passionate about youth well-being and/or equity in education.

How to create and submit a zine

Materials

8 x 11-inch paper
Black pen or fine-point sharpie
Stapler
Optional: colored paper for cover, items for collage before photocopying.
Colored zines should be easy to photocopy in black and white unless color printing is available. We can convert your zine to grayscale if necessary for duplication.
Canva has templates for making zines online. Watch a video showing how to make a zine using Canva.

Half-page or quarter-page zines. Mini-zines will also be accepted.

Learn how to fold zines
Zine cover art (optional)

Submission instructions

Create your zine pages.
Scan or photograph the pages before folding them.
Please send SSAIS a scan of each page before folding so that we can post it on our website for download (optional but encouraged).
If you submit a color zine please also submit a black and white copy for photocopying.
Fill out the submission form for each zine.