Guess Who? — Archive on Zines

Based in Brooklyn, NY

A typology zine exploring the politics and performance of identity. Through found imagery of child celebrities such as Shirley Temple, Britney Spears, and Aaliyah Haughton—figures who were subjected to sexualization and childhood sexual abuse—this project interrogates the construction of identity when it is not fully one's own to claim. It asks: What becomes of identity when it is shaped by external forces, when a life and image exist at the mercy of those who seek to manipulate and exploit it?

Printed using Risograph MZ1090U (Light Blue and Pink) on 11” × 17” Hemptone Madero Beach Text Weight Paper
at Pratt Institute.
4.25” × 5.5”
8 pages
One Page Fold Bound
First Edition of 13
Fall 2024

By MyKaila Donovan

Zine production and distribution massively influences culture.
The zine’s inherent and unique properties allow it to serve as a medium through which the graphic designers and artists authoring them have a hand on culture.

Designers, as the voices in the zine, have a critical role in the proper communication of these beliefs as well as the spread of them, giving them a hand on society and allowing them to shape organized interests as well as respond to changes in economic, political, or religious conditions that may be affecting society as a whole.