Zines on Commitment & Taking Actions
Editor’s note: Between February and May, 2021, the CATA-ACAT AOP Working Group collaborated with expressive arts therapist and educator Virginia Jahyu (MA, ExAT) to host a series of workshops on anti-racist, anti-oppressive and anti-colonial practices in creative arts therapies. In the final workshop we focused on commitment and taking actions to create safer spaces for all peoples. We were invited to create zines that speak to the social justice issues we are committed to. We wish to take the first step of actions by sharing some of the zines created here, as a public statement of our resistance to longstanding systems of oppression, racism, and colonial violence.
We invite you to create your own zines with your statements of resistance and commitment, and share with your circles. Some examples on how to create a zine can be found here.
Please feel free to visit the gallery of other artwork created in the workshop here.
We’d like to extend much gratitude to Virginia for sharing her wisdoms, creative energy, and generous collaborative spirit with us. Much appreciation also to AOP Working Group members Mary Norton and Marie Muggeridge, as well as CATA-ACAT administrators Samuel Stevenson and Bethany MacGillivray, for your dedication, allyship and support in making these workshops possible.
And most of all — many, many thank-you’s to everyone who have joined our workshop series. Thank you for connecting, sharing what’s important to you, holding space for one another, and extending support to one another. The zines may mark the conclusion of our workshop series, but we trust that they are the beginning to many positive changes in our field and in the world. Thank you for stepping into this process together. We look forward to continuing our conversations and collaborations in other spaces in the near future.
Kate Moo King-Curtis
Ana Kuzmic
Amélie Blanchard
Patricia Ki
