DTM Editions

DTM Editions is my zine practice. I tend towards two topics: creating joy and surviving academia. The zines dedicated to creating joy examine an array of ordinary topics with an eye for whimsy and an emphasis on small pleasures (Picnics! Walks! Cats in Clothes! Cooking with friends! Quilts! Whimsy!). My university zine series explores hospitality in the classroom, teaching about the climate change, academic precarity, and thinking with art. Each of my zines are hand-drawn and either quite small (4”x5.5”) or tiny (2”x2”).

I have been creating zines and zine-adjacent work since sometime in the 2000s. Most of my earliest projects have been lost in the frequent moves of my early-20s. When living in rural Japan in 2010-2012, I used zines to document my experiences and naive observations. Other times, I’ve turned to zines as a method for sharing hobbies and enthusiasms. As a graduate student and postdoctoral fellow, I created zines to engage students in course content and research methods, while reflecting on pedagogy, academic precarity, and ethics.

Most recently, I have been experimenting my favourite methods—line drawing, tiny handwriting, and a photocopying—to create zines and mail art that focused on joy. I have also been experimenting with sketchnoting and graphic recording as additional paths for exploring the world through images and image making.

Joyful Zines

WHAT ARE JOBS? A PhD Careers Comic A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of chatting with some PhD students at @westernufims about professional development and career paths beyond the tenure track. As ever, it was more fun to draw my approach to job h
THINGS TO DO ON THE TTC: a mini-zine of things I did when I forgot my book for a trip across town. Maybe you can enjoy similarly nice activities on the TTC @takethettc #minizine #ttc #ttcjourney #toronto #transit #subway #subwayart #zinemaking #zin
“Luckily, you know how to speak like a normal person! That voice can help you write.” - Jennifer Knoch, Senior Editor @ecwpress The Public Writing in the Humanities working group welcomed a full house to our “Academic Writers, Mee
HOME IN THE CITY: a research comic. In January, I collaborated with my brilliant friend @reneebeausoleil to create a research comic that summarized her dissertation research on housing governance. Renee shared the comic with her community partners a
A few more tiny tunnel books, this time for @travelswithfarley and @anne.thequilter. I spent a good bit of the luxurious last week of the year hunched over my pencil crayons, giddy with the special joy of drawing very teeny tiny objects and cutting t
A very special birthday thrill: finding a stack of my book on the table at my favorite bookstore. Thank you for the support, @anotherstorybookshop !
Over the course of 2023, I used up a whole bag of confetti. The 2024 confetti arrived this morning. Here’s to a joy, in all of its bright tiny bits.
Sometimes you need to drop everything and learn how to make a tunnel book bookshop for a dear friend, @lbutetroch. Thank you @wildinksketch for the wonderful lesson and thank you to me for adding the tiniest letter to the mail slot at the last moment
After many years of work, I’m happy to share my first book has been published. It’s called Settler Colonial Ways of Seeing: Documentation, Administration, and the Interventions of Indigenous Art, out this week with @fordham_press. An effo

Pedagogy Zines

 

Thinking About Art

How to do politics and media studies research in an art gallery. This zine contains tips and ideas for students and researchers interested in thinking about political problems alongside the critical and creative offerings of contemporary art.

Professionally Developed Human

Finishing a PhD is wild. Afterwards, it only gets wilder. This zine blends practical tips with personal reflections on postdoctoral life.

Living in Lost Futures

This zine is a collection of reflections, prompts, and questions for receiving and telling stories about the lost futures we are living through and the lost futures to come.

 

On Being A Host… …On Being A Guest

How to host guests in university classes in ways that value labour and diverse sources of knowledge, while engaging students in meaningful ways. This zine offers advice and ideas for being a good host.