I’m Still Here: A collab mental heath zine for tough times
Shei, Marvellous, Ether
16 pages
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I’m Still Here is a full-colour A5 zine about mental health and self-care during tough times.
I’m Still Here opens with an introduction from Shei to the zine and the themes. What started as a zine collab to cheer up to a friend turned into a collab between three friends during a time when ‘tough times’ described the entire world and everyone in it. From there we have pieces on distractions to cope, a piece about the journey to embracing one’s anger, feel good recommendations, poetry, and more.
I have said many times that it feels like I read some zines at exactly the time I need to read them, and this zine falls into that category. There are so many ways this zine really ‘spoke’ to me. The importance of activities often based in fantasy that help us cope with reality. A very powerful piece about embracing your anger and everything it truly encompasses. Plenty of recommendations for things to help you feel good. There’s always been a time and place for self-care, but I feel like it’s taken a whole new level of importance and meaning after 2020.
As someone who has struggled a lot regarding anger, that’s definitely the piece I kept going back to. Ether wrote beautifully with a strong writing style about containing and denying the feeling until learning to embrace it and what it morphed into.
I always love Shei’s zine style, and this zine is no exception. There is so much colour, collages with all sorts going on, beautiful background papers, and a mix of handwriting as well as typing. I could absolutely go on. Even after I finished reading, I ended up flipping through a few more times because it’s pleasant to look at. (I am a big fan of florals and pastels.
While I’m Still Here does reference 2020 strongly, I think tough times and the self-care that’s needed to help cope are timeless topics to write/create about. I greatly enjoyed this zine and would love to see more like it.
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