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.
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.
When people come together—shaking hands, listening, respecting—we create the kind of freedom that lasts.
My piece, Disheveled, is an exploration of vulnerability, duality, and the struggle for self-acceptance in a world that often expects perfection.
This zine depicts a battle between the mind and the body. A battle to discover a sense of belonging and identity.
When viewing this quarter’s prompt: “Crisis: rebuilding in community” I was reminded of the poems I wrote in my final year of undergrad.
My poem is a homage to the 2025 movements “Hands Off” and “MayDay” protesting the current administration. I wanted to honor their meaning and the sheer amount of people who gathered to fight for balance.
I wrote a flash nonfiction piece based on the morning after the election.
As a Korean diaspora living in the United States, my existence is dictated by U.S. foreign policy.
This piece is inspired by the threat that is imposed on the erasure of critical race theory.