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Zine Centro

This zine is a collaboration between 826CHI and Centro Romero. Our mission is to provide opportunities for those community residents with the fewest options. Through education, Centro Romero emphasizes the development of the whole family unit, the creation of community leadership and self-reliance. Centro Romero is a community-based organization that services the refugee immigrant population on the northeast side of Chicago. Our interrelated programs include Youth Learning and Leadership development, Women's Empowerment Projects, Adult Education, HIV/AIDS Outreach and Education and Legal Services. These are essential services that support healthy personal and social development of participants. Our long-term organization goal is to bridge a disenfranchised community of Latino immigrants and refugees into mainstream American society as well as improving their opportunity for upwards social mobility. Long-term sustainable growth of our target population will only be achieved through education, and leadership development, therefore we focus our energy in related initiatives.

Collection Context

Zine Collection, 1973-2019 9 Linear Feet

Zines, derived from "magazines," are alternative publications constructed using inexpensive, easily accessible materials. Zines, as a genre, have historically been used by political, social, and counterculture movements to easily and inexpensively proliferate information. Zines are often created in a cooperative, utilizing multiple mediums of expression from poets, essayists, and visual artists. In 2017, the University Archives and Special Collections at FGCU began actively collecting zines to be included in the Spring 2018 exhibition Rape Culture. The collection has a strong focus on sexual assault, women's studies, and the LGBTQIA+ community. Note that language is a constantly evolving construct and therefore the tags, keywords, and subject headings attributed to the zines may be considered unacceptable by contemporary and future standards as well as social norms. The archives intent is to preserve the historical record which may include harmful language when viewed through a 21st century lens. To modify the language would be an act of erasure of the creators' lived experience.

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