The Future Echoes: A Zine Anthology is an archival project designed to document young people’s thoughts and attitudes about current US political, social, economic, ecological, and cultural issues through a medium popular in art activism – zines.
The views and opinions expressed in the submitted zine pages that follow for The Future Echoes: A Zine Anthology are those of the individual contributors and do not reflect the official stance or views of the ACLU of North Carolina. These zines will serve as a platform for young artists and activists to express their perspectives and lived experiences.
The piece asks, “What’s next?? - urging the viewer to both reflect on the dangerous possibilities bound to unfold and to challenge them to look beyond slogans and reflect on whether our institutions truly serve the public and our future. “Make America America Again” because the nation we intended it to be and the one we are living in today is completely unrecognizable.
This work engages with the question of Southern voting power by recognizing and critically challenging the oversimplification of the South—and, in turn, its residents—as a bigoted monolith, a stain of Reconstruction's failures.
my body learned freedom before i learned the word. it learned it in my grandmother’s kitchen— turmeric staining fingertips gold, prayers counted on beads worn smooth by years of wanting, food made slowly, deliberately, as if nourishment itself were
A story exploring how freedom manifests in diverse ways while examining its potential to transform the world and embody its true essence.
My art piece is meant to describe the experience of someone like me, someone who is a second generation latino.
In a world that often depicts transition as a grotesque death of self, I want to depict transition as what it is- an act of freeing, beautiful creation.
This poem was about both my struggles with medical freedom, and my struggles of not being taken seriously in many aspects of my life.
This piece is a meditation on how I felt the criminalization of my abortion intersected with my Indigenous identity.
THIS is what freedom looks like to me; a messy collage of thousands of identities screaming into society- overlapping and collaborating with one another as beautifully and peacefully as the cut-outs do.
Without fair voting and speaking out, personal health and identity are under attack.
When people come together—shaking hands, listening, respecting—we create the kind of freedom that lasts.
To be human is to deserve freedom. It doesn't matter if you're gay, trans disabled or homeless you deserve freedom.
he pretends to care about working people but then turns around and supports things that hurt them.
My piece, Disheveled, is an exploration of vulnerability, duality, and the struggle for self-acceptance in a world that often expects perfection.
My image of trump separating a broken American flag displays the current political climate of the world.
This zine depicts a battle between the mind and the body. A battle to discover a sense of belonging and identity.
Drawing showing different types of women who all have the same belief regarding rights for they’re body.
This piece highlights what parts of your body is restricted by the government, which is just completely crazy, but needs to be talked about.
Themes of care, spirit, and solidarity seek to reflect our experience fighting for the full rights and dignity of our own communities, as well as those we are standing with and constantly learning from.
When viewing this quarter’s prompt: “Crisis: rebuilding in community” I was reminded of the poems I wrote in my final year of undergrad.