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Victoria Garcia

Victoria Garcia

Victoria Garcia is a writer, teacher and mother who teaches girls and women how to make their own type of writing! She loves it most when girls work together to create awesome stories that they share with other people. Victoria thinks that every girl has something important to say!

Welcome to the Doing It Yourself Blog!

My name is Victoria, and I'm going to be writing this blog! Did you know that there are many, many ways to make your own type of media? "Media" is anything that says something to readers. It can be...

First, You Organize!

First: You Organize! So we've spent a little time dipping our toes into the world of zines! We've looked at what zines are and why girls are making them. We looked at a famous zinester and who is r...

Interview with Zinester Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Note from Victoria: The following is an interview I completed with one of my favorite zinesters ever, Alexis Pauline Gumbs! Alexis (or Lex, as I call her), is a sholar, an activist and a deep lover of...

Understanding what we're making

Before we start talking about how to make different types of media (magazines, books, collages, etc), we should spend some time studying the media we want to make. Taking time to really know what you ...

A little background on Zines

Since we've been talking about zines and how important they've been for girls and women, I thought that this news was interesting! Kathleen Henna, a really famous and important singer from the pun...