genre and movement that revelled in rejection of the heteronormative. When asked about the impact of alt zines, she need only open her mouth to paint a beautiful picture of the essence of fringe content . Vaginal Davis created a movement that spotlighted “The Black and femme of colour point of view” with a collaborative approach that is perhaps most fundamental to the alternative zine zeitgeist — and echoed by many other creatives of the time.
subculture, what Ken calls the “Black gay underground.” For the hairdresser, who also appeared on multiple covers ofmagazine, this zine “cemented stories that Black people [had] always [been] telling each other in print — we were crafting the world we wanted to live in”.Because this world didn’t prioritise ad space or click bait data, the brains behind zine content held “editorial autonomy”, according to former i-D photographer Jason Evans .