Hi Joanne! Please tell our readers about yourself!Happy International Working Women’s Month to everyone! I am Joanne Cesario, a filmmaker, zinemaker, and labor and women’s rights activist. Can you tell us about “Transferred Damages,” your zine?Transferred Damages began informally in 2012. By 2018, I had amassed many undeveloped film rolls, which I entrusted to someone who had committed to hand-processing them but ultimately damaged the rolls. This incident coincided with an exhausting and turbulent period in my life, when many traumatic experiences resurfaced. I first thought of the phrase “transferred damages” while struggling to breathe on an airplane after...

Hi Lena! Please tell our readers about yourself!I'm a visual artist/curator/writer/pet butler, sci-fi and horror film/podcast binger. Can you tell us about “Made of Stone” and “Decadence on a Budget,” your new zines?Made of Stone is the complementary catalog for the show I curated at Modeka last October 2025 where the topic of that show is about celebrity/idol culture and how that affects our lives and systems of beliefs. I often make zine catalogs for shows I organize/curate as a way to document and expand the life of exhibits especially now with rapid exhibit turn-over and doom scrolling. It's a...