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Same Difference Zine

A front cover for a Zine with a light yellow background and text that's been stamped using letter stamps that says "same difference"

Working alongside Cut Up Club, members of our Youth Board used mixed media, poetry, and collage techniques to create handcrafted Guerrilla-style zines that highlight creativity and connections across differences whilst platforming their unique perspectives.

  • A collage for the Same Difference zine. The collage has a fox, goose, and owl along with various patterns and foliage like brickwork and spiderwebs
  • A collaged poem for the Same Difference zine. It reads: In your mind you rake your garden Orange leaves that fizz and swish Like a late-night drink in a mirthful hand, Your inhibitions lowered, mimic the falling Soon the trees will be exposed and Left to their own And there is a certain empty cold Between the acorns and the conkers The time of pines being sold by the Side of the road There is a lot to gather- You rake your leaves into piles After they've become "land-borne" And now there's a path you can tread without hazard That seems to lead to calm The garden where ordered leaves sit and do no harm. There is a certain pride Gained from the taming of a wild thing The scurrying stills and it's a long while the grass doesn't twitch. The little creatures Start to wonder Under that they're going to sleep, And even decomposing leaves might've Provided a little something Something to eat.. It's then when Time and Life come back just in the nick And hitch up their skirts, And KICK, KICK, KICK! The wind has returned And the piles are air-borne They scatter back Along the mowed grass - Refusing to be forgotten. Refusing to be gone.
  • A collaged poem for the Same Difference zine. The background is trees with sunlight shining through. The poem reads: There is a crack in everything that's how the light gets in
  • A collage of hand-drawn horses for the Same Difference zine. The message in the middle reads: "SAY NEIGH TO AI"
  • An acrylic painting inside the Same Difference Zine. It shows characters Elphaba and Glinda from the movie adaptation of Wicked reaching out to one another as the landscape splits between pink and green.
  • A pen and ink drawing for the Same Difference zine. It shows a large fish swimming through various illustrations of childhood trinkets and memories such as a teacup, two young people together, and someone fishing.
  • A collaged poem for the Same Difference zine, with hand-drawn buildings behind it. It reads: it's kind of beautiful in its madness, don't you think? one life brushes past another in a shower of coloured sparks and no one bats an eye. because that's simply how here works - so many people crammed into one bright, busy, utterly individual city; pressure builds, with it energy, and with that comes more and more reactions. fireworks shoot from every street, every corner and every office block in echoing giggles and carefully plotted conversations and motions painting artwork in the eye of the beholder. it's truly beautiful, in spite of its chaos - or perhaps as a result of it. a jumbled mix of unnamable ideas and it has come together to form this. here. now. us
  • A collaged poem for the Same Difference zine. cut outs of two young people dancing and singing, and a very large crowd of people. It reads: The stories we tell of human connection are what we remember. We are an infinite variety of life. Be you. Be true. Be open to being US.
  • A collage for the Same Difference zine. There are floral patterns, ripped landscapes and leaves, along with pictures of a flamingo, wolf, beetle, and squirrel.
  • A collaged blackout poem for the Same Difference zine. Cut outs of a bear carrying a salmon, an erupting volcano, and plant life. Around the collage are the words: "precious", "contents are being slowly stirred", "the pull of Sun friendly toward man", "unstable", "phenomena", "rocks", "Earth", "mountains" The poem reads: "evening moths caterpillars long-nosed bug butterflies wasps will almost certainly be fragile"
  • A collage for the Same Difference zine. The collage shows ripped shapes of crowds of people, LED lights, and underwater landscapes
  • A collage for the Same Difference zine. There are three ripped images of a large burgundy tree, a group of people in an office, and a black and white image of a protest march.
  • A collage for the Same Difference zine with a small poem. There is a large butterfly, multicoloured threads, yellow flowers, and translucent maps on top of a person's face. The text reads: "We are philosophers of the youth"
  • A collaged poem for the Same Difference zine. There are penguins and seagulls on top of a forest and underwater background. A hairless cat sits in the bottom right corner. The poem reads: What are the meanings? heaving up ice unendingly heaping up the waste the roots dark trenches preparing their earthquakes The slow, irresistible transformation of matter in the hearts and everywhere on the planet, life multiplying and struggling and finding the new forms man and his neighbours whose hands still point

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