Imagining Feminist Futures through Drawing Zines

Sunday, 13 April 2025, 14:30-17:30
Registrations open!

In this hands-on workshop we will create zines that explore the many ways in which feminist future worlds are imagined by each one of us, from fantastic utopias to pragmatic political shifts, and as inspired by ongoing resistance movements. Through delving into different formats of image and word conjunction and those of zine making, we will draw, collage, cut and paste to bring together lived experiences with imagined realms, on the same page!

The workshop will move from free drawing exercises, to crafting characters and storyboarding, and finally creating zines, each representing our own versions of feminist futures.

Workshop Requirements:

• Age: 18+
• It is not necessary to have any prior drawing or art skills for this workshop,
• All materials will be provided.

Ita Mehrotra
Ita is a visual artist, author and educator. She creates non-fiction comics, illustrated text and animation, stemming most often from engagements within socio-political shifts around her, and in unravelling their particular histories. Her work has been published and exhibited by thewire.in , popula.org, Zubaan Books, KHOJ Artists Association, Goethe-Institut, Yoda Press, AdAstra Comix, among others. Her book Shaheen Bagh, A Graphic Recollection (Yoda Press) documents moments and memories from the Anti-CAA protests that raged through the country in 2019-2020. Ita leads visual storytelling programmes with community libraries and rural schools across India.