ohio against the world
fall 2025this zine was created to highlight the ways we survived the covid-19 pandemic.
shortly following covid’s emergence, we took to the streets for a resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement and the emerging #sayhername movement.
following our vaccinations, the public world held a different kind of structure - defined by anxiety of overcrowded spaces (tied to our fears of contagion mixed with our fears of white supremacist acts of terror in the shootings that seemed to dominate the news cycle every few months), the underresearched effects of covid and long covid, the genocide in Gaza and the Sudan and the Congo, and the re-emergence of donald trump as presidential candidate, and then president elect.
now, we have arrived at a moment when the neoliberal curtain has been pulled back to show its fascist roots, where immigration enforcement works to undo our civil liberties, our melting pot culture, the lies we are told about the u.s. as the democratic center of an otherwise ill governed world.
but in a world governed by necropolitics, or a politics defined by death dealing institutions, moments of crisis seem everlasting.
we have arrived at many ends that require our investment in beginnings, our investment in our abilities to come together & demand a better world and when our demands are not met, the will to build anyway.
info
96 pagescover,
60lb. cover, folded
laserjet print, 4-color
inner,
18lb. text, bond paper
laserjet print, 4-color
edited by
Deja Beamon
design/layout
Mattea Jones and Charlie Lampe
featured contributors
cameron grangertasha lomo
sydney mcsweeney
reg zehner