This zine was made out of a need for me to explore and communicate the process I was going through in attempting to conduct research which was both ethical and pragmatic whilst engaging with complex theories and under-researched methods such as zine-making.
As you might see in the zine itself, over the course of the project my ideas and feelings changed about what was possible and what forms of research should and could be done. Concerns about whether my dream for arts-based methods and action research to come together being practical during the length of a one-year masters course, and about whether I could promote health research which was somewhat un-analysable and yet demand action, were key to my needing to explore my own research experience through a zine.
The journey of self-questioning did not end when I stitched this zine together, rather it became a temporary reference point from which I could measure my own changing perspective on the research. Zines, in their homemade, messy, and imperfect ways emphasise how our ideas are unfixed and always moving - they are not intended to be timeless but are always referential.
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