Left: 2024 Zine Fest half-table setup
Above: A sample of my STS-focused zines!

Call Your Gay Friends Gay For $5
August 2024

Hand-written and printed with hand-carved block, this mini-zine does what it says on the cover :) Use responsibly and lovingly!

On The Go
June 2024

This 10-page mini zine is entirely bound and printed by hand with hand-carved blocks (including the cover!). It was created as an exploration of block printing as a new medium, with the ability to create and reproduce “on the go” - each of the blocks was carved over two weeks while on vacation with family in France, and printed with easily transportable stamp pads.

Jamal’s Journey: A Student Data Walkthrough
March 2024, By Sophie Wang and NOTICE Coalition

We know that students these days have their data collected at an unprecedented rate. But did you know that this doesn't start when they enter school, and the data doesn't just stay within the school? This zine provides an overview of 22 real-life ways that student data is collected, shared, sold, or stored, and what some of the issues and impacts are that surround this surveillance.

What’s In A Watershed? Connection, Responsibilities, and Opportunities for Change
September 2023 (Commissioned by Capitol Region Watershed District and Springboard for the Arts)

This comic takes a playful approach to teaching readers about connections between us, the water, other people, and other life in and around the water, through how water travels through a watershed.

AI for Whose Good? Lessons from Community Resistance to Automation at the Port of Los Angeles
August 2023, By Sophie Wang and Taylor M. Cruz

Who does AI and automation benefit? Who does it harm? And who has what kind of control over how it’s used? This zine pins these questions down to an LA context, drawing on ethnographic fieldwork of public engagement events in the LA Harbor Area and Silicon Beach. It shares the direct words of people impacted by AI systems at the Port of LA through the personal and political lenses of the authors and creators.

Union Valentines
February 2023

This (slightly not safe for work but definitely safe for workers!) zine is a saucy love letter (ages 18+ recommended) to organizers and workers and laborers fighting for a better world, where capital isn’t consolidated by the few, workers aren’t exploited for others’ gain, people have enough for both needs and wants to be satisfied, and we live and act in interdependence and solidarity and support of one another.

PredPol Is…: A Guide To PredPol and Dismantling It
October 2019, by Sophie Wang, Adit Dhanushkodi, and Leah Horgan.

The LAPD uses a predictive policing program called PredPol to claim that their policing is objective and neutral. However, PredPol’s use of historic racist crime data, its focus on location-based policing in a violently segregated city, and its mere existence as a technology that must predict crime are all clear evidence to the contrary. As part of Free Radicals’ partnership with Stop LAPD Spying Coalition to dismantle PredPol and all other predictive policing programs used by the LAPD, we created a short 1-sheet zine that covers the basics of PredPol.

Who’s Driving? Exploring Driverless Futures
October 2019

Driverless cars could change everything. Their developers say that they would change our world for the good, making roads safer and transportation more accessible. Is that all there is to the story though? Who currently has a hand in making choices about what this driverless future might look like, and who should?

This zine was a commission from the Driverless Futures project.

Oh, The Places Your Data Will Go!
August 2019, by Data Seuss (Sophie Wang, Alexis Takahashi, and Chrystal Li)

An innocent selfie gets uploaded to Instagram and goes on a journey that’s a bit more than she bargained for…! Follow our selfie on a journey through facial recognition algorithms, the corporate and state data sharing environment, and more, oh my! All in spectacular rhyming fashion.

Do You Speak Second Gen?
August 2019

Chinese is my first language but also my second. It is both familiar and distant, evokes both trouble and comfort. This zine contains 12 lenses through which I view my relationship with this language that I speak as a second generation immigrant. Perhaps it is relatable to you, perhaps you will share a lens or two, perhaps you too know your vegetables best.

Tea For One
May 2019

Half field guide, half memoir of being (mostly) alone for a year in London!

Equity, Exclusion and Everyday Science Learning - Zine Edition
April 2019, commissioned by Dr. Emily Dawson.

An illustrated summary of Dr. Emily Dawson’s book on exclusion in everyday science learning. It’s not just ticket prices that keep people out of science learning spaces like science museums - it’s a whole menagerie of exclusionary practices! Check out this zine to learn more…or to see cultural imperialism drawn as a slime mold.

Science Under the Scope: The Objectivity of My Affection
June 2017

What determines who does science, what questions scientists ask, and who science helps and harms? This first installment of the Science Under the Scope series explores those questions and breaks down 5 ways that science may not be as objective as we’re often taught it is.