Zines and creative community

I love to make zines and podcasts and organise exhibitions and workshops to document and help knit together creative communities.

ROLLER SKATE DIYS (2026)

DIY skate parks are places where collective caretaking can transform abandoned private space into sites for joy and community, although they are usually created by male-dominated skateboard and BMX communities.

I began searching for DIYs created in whole or part by members of my own roller skating community, which happens to be much more led by women and gender nonconforming skaters.

This search took me to a Mexican mountainside, farms in Tenerife and rural Finland, and reclaimed toxic wasteland in Berlin, and I created a zine to document the journey that contained interviews, essays, photos and art.

The resulting 30-page A5 zine is stocked in quad skate shops in London, Glasgow and Leeds, as well as a feminist bookshop in Berlin. It was launched with a collaborative exhibition (main image above) at the Bath House community arts centre in Hackney Wick, east London and with a ramp building workshop for roller skaters at Downside DIY in Tottenham.

DEEP END (2021-2025)

In 2021, I set up a podcast and interviewed roller skaters building our community and industry in Buenos Aires, Melbourne, Auckland and Glasgow, and commissioned an Argentinian skater to design branded tshirts to raise funds. This led to being invited to write regular content for Chuffed Skates, an Australian roller-skate company.

In 2025, I brought back Deep End as an online zine on Substack, showcasing creativity within our community. I interviewed skaters in Barcelona, California, Helsinki, New York, London and Margate about their projects. I also filmed, edited and skated in a video with filmmaker and roller skater Moliana Mundy that was released via the Dog Days magazine YouTube channel.

STAPLE GUN (2020)

In 2020, Julie Day and I created four quarterly print zines to document the international quad skating community and provide a creative outlet for skaters to express themselves. At the end of the year, I collated these issues into a book that was sold (for the cost of printing) in skate shops across Europe. All issues were also available for free online.

Interviews with skaters covered topics including: BLM protests; DIY and community building, tips for making a skate video; being Deaf, genderqueer and neurodivergent within skating; body positivity and getting over anxieties in the skate park.