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.
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.
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.
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.
Tell your truth in your own way to not lose hope. We have no choice but to keep telling our truths to learn, grow, and protect our lives, bodies, and futures.
Through this page, I hope to highlight queer love, lesbian power, and the importance of living your truth.
I wrote a flash nonfiction piece based on the morning after the election.
I wrote this piece mainly in response to the Nashville shooting in April 2023, but it turned into a commentary on Florida's political climate at the time.
My submission is a collection of phrases written to me, said to me, things I have said or have heard others say.