I would like to start off by saying that I love zines. They are a great way to share information in a way that many people can understand. Personally, I have made a zine before and I enjoyed the process and sharing it with others. Based off the definition of feminist praxis friendship as a feminist praxis is have a friends or group of friends that are supportive and motivate you to help you grow into yourself as a person. After reading Faggots, Dykes and Fairies: Welcome to the world of The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolution, I came to the conclusion that feminist praxis also has to so with understanding. So many people could relate and find a connection in the original book and the book evolved into something bigger and greater. I feel like the zine reading also had a similar theme of finding your connections and sense of self. I say this because we all just want to feel like we belong, and we all search for that. I’m not sure if I’m interpreting the reading right but I feel like feminist praxis has also do with companionship, understanding and growing with each out. Friendship is a growing mutual relationship. In that relationship you form strong bonds and a support system. Im not sure on what else to add. I enjoyed reading both article. But I didn’t not see the relation between the video clips and the text except for The Faggot and Their Friends Between Revolutions.
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I’m so glad that you love zines! I do too. I appreciate your reflections above. I added this comment to Lori’s post and I think it’s relevant here, too as it builds off some of what you wrote:
What do you think makes this “feminist?” There’s no one right answer to this, either. One thread that I see in these materials is that friendship is a way to practice interdependence and challenge the idea that we are all individuals who are only responsible for ourselves, and that this way of thinking about relationships opens up ways to think about social change, how we work together, sharing resources (e.g. “mutual aid”) and so on. And that it allows us to think about pleasure and joy as important parts of our lives.