{"id":2745,"date":"2024-11-12T04:22:28","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T04:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/?p=2745"},"modified":"2024-11-12T17:02:42","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T17:02:42","slug":"thats-not-your-publication-thats-your-audience-and-more-from-dreamworldgirl-zine-founder-daphne-bryant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/2024\/11\/12\/thats-not-your-publication-thats-your-audience-and-more-from-dreamworldgirl-zine-founder-daphne-bryant\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;That&#8217;s Not Your Publication, That&#8217;s Your Audience&#8221; and More from Dreamworldgirl Zine Founder Daphne Bryant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Blog Director \/\/ Leanna Florez <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the digital age, there is nothing we crave more than nostalgia and community. This is the core of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamworldgirlzine.com\"><em>Dreamworldgirl Zine<\/em><\/a>, an independent multimedia publication centering on art by non-binary and women-identifying creators founded by Emerson student Daphne Bryant. From groundbreaking photoshoots to passionate poetry pieces, all of these can be found in an issue of <em>Dreamworldgirl Zine<\/em> in a fun, girly, y2k aesthetic package. I had the chance to chat with Daphne last weekend while she\u2019s in ELA (Emerson Los Angeles) continuing to push her zine and creative vision into a wildly successful product, and it was a beyond enlightening conversation that ranged from a discussion on how to develop a niche magazine&nbsp;to a desire for more lesbian bars.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/image-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2747\" style=\"width:374px;height:auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Daphne Bryant (credit: Daphne herself)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>LEANNA FLOREZ: For anyone who doesn\u2019t know, how would you describe <em>Dreamworldgirl Zine<\/em>?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DAPHNE BRYANT: So, <em>Dreamworldgirl Zine<\/em> is a multimedia publication\u2014which is just fancy words to say that we do everything. We accept things like prose and poetry, so we have a pretty solid foundation in literary art, but we also really love photography, so a big part of our mag is the photoshoots and the videoshoots. We love art, we love music, any creative industry that you can do artistically, we\u2019re into that. [<em>Dreamworldgirl Zine<\/em>] is centered around the idea of girlhood.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Sensing my follow-up question, she answered without me asking.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BRYANT: To me, or at least in the context of the zine, [girlhood] is pretty nuanced. There\u2019s a recent TikTok trend in this past year that made girlhood super coquette-inspired, a lot of Lana Del Rey vibes, which is totally cool! Love that, whoever\u2019s into that aesthetic, but that\u2019s not what I wanted to go for at all. I was more inspired by the y2k aesthetic and late 90s-early 2000s [aesthetics]. I was born in 2003, [so] that\u2019s a time I didn\u2019t really get to live through as a teenager or an adult, and I feel really nostalgic for that time. I think a lot of people do. So to me, that was the perfect era to center girlhood in. The last thing I\u2019ll say about the zine is it is intended to be for women and other marginalized gender identities. We really only work with women and non-binary individuals, which I think creates a really safe, unique space. It\u2019s really whimsical and fun!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FLOREZ: That\u2019s one of the aspects that attracted me to write something about it! Tell me about your personal creative process for the zine, what do you look for when you\u2019re selecting content or thinking of photoshoot ideas that fit the theme and creative vision [of <em>Dreamworldgirl Zine<\/em>]?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BRYANT: I really like that question!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FLOREZ: Thank you!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"991\" src=\"https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-10.11.16-PM-1-1024x991.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2749\" style=\"width:462px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-10.11.16-PM-1-1024x991.png 1024w, https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-10.11.16-PM-1-300x290.png 300w, https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-10.11.16-PM-1-768x743.png 768w, https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-10.11.16-PM-1-560x542.png 560w, https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-10.11.16-PM-1-260x252.png 260w, https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-10.11.16-PM-1-160x155.png 160w, https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-10.11.16-PM-1.png 1449w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Sleepover<\/em>, one of DWG Zine&#8217;s early shoots (credit: Campbell Parish for <em>Dreamworldgirl Zine<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>BRYANT: I\u2019ll talk about the zine\u2019s first issue. For <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamworldgirlzine.com\/issue01diy\">the print issue<\/a>, we open up submissions every October and every April, and those are always themed. The past theme was \u201cDIY,\u201d so it was kind of like a pretty general theme because we wanted it to be interpreted in a lot of different ways. \u201cDIY\u201d had this scrapbook aesthetic. Anything that gave a collage vibe, seemed to mesh together in an indie way, was attractive to us. Something that we always look for is non-traditional work, because one of the reasons I started the zine is that I am such a girly girl! I just love fun, queer, girly stuff! I would be sitting in my writing classes and I would feel like there\u2019s no space for it. That\u2019s what I want more of. But that\u2019s not to say that a super well-written literary poem isn\u2019t going to get into the issue, but I think anything that\u2019s a little unconventional or something you don\u2019t usually see in academic settings\u2014I think that\u2019s really cool to me and my team. As far as my process for choosing those, I have a team of readers. So once we get all of our submissions, I send them to [our readers], and I say, \u201cHey guys! These are your assignments, give me feedback, let me know your thoughts.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FLOREZ: Do you as the founder read all of the submissions before you send them out?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BRYANT: Yeah, by that point I\u2019ve already read all of them, but I want to hear different perspectives from other people too, so that I\u2019m not biased. We choose a maximum of twenty-five pieces, and then we format them all together. As far as the creative process for photoshoots, which I feel like people are always really curious about, they\u2019re so fun! I\u2019m at Emerson about to graduate, so I worked on a lot of student magazines when I was on the Boston campus, so that helped me see the photoshoot process. I worked on Your Mag and Atlas Magazine, shoutout to them, so I got to see the behind-the-scenes process. It made it a lot easier to implant those systems into the zine. Usually what will happen first is that I\u2019ll look for a photographer. That\u2019s one of the most important things is finding someone who can really take good photos, because I\u2019m not great at photos, so I\u2019m always looking for a photographer, either from my friends or from people who reach out [to the zine]. Then I do the creative direction for [the shoot] which usually involves creating a Pinterest board. I love Pinterest so much, so I\u2019ll create one of those, and I\u2019ll find different aesthetics and different people and different clothes that I feel go with the vision.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"936\" height=\"1025\" src=\"https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-10.14.54-PM-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2751\" style=\"width:446px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-10.14.54-PM-1.png 936w, https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-10.14.54-PM-1-274x300.png 274w, https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-10.14.54-PM-1-768x841.png 768w, https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-10.14.54-PM-1-560x613.png 560w, https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-10.14.54-PM-1-260x285.png 260w, https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-10.14.54-PM-1-160x175.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 936px) 100vw, 936px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Good Luck Babe<\/em> (credit: Sophia Cheung for <em>Dreamworldgirl Zine<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>BRYANT: Once we have the creative direction and the photographer, we typically look for models. For models, we will typically open up model calls. Honestly, that\u2019s something that we\u2019ll probably stop doing for the next issue because [the zine] has gotten way bigger than I thought it would. I\u2019ll probably just make a database and use those people. For now, we do&nbsp; model calls, which means that we open it up to literally anyone in the area who wants to model for us. Once we select the models, we do styling next. Sometimes the models will style themselves, or I\u2019ll bring on a stylist, and that\u2019s really fun because we get to mix their personal styles and preferences and push boundaries and do things that fit with the shoot idea. The most recent shoot we had in Boston was so cool. The person who creative directed for it, she\u2019s the soccer captain at Emerson for women\u2019s soccer, and she&#8217;s an amazing athlete and so creative. She came to us and was like, \u201cI feel like people think about Emerson athletes and they have this stereotype in their head about what we\u2019re like, and that we\u2019re not capable of doing things that the creative writing majors or film majors do.\u201d And she just wanted to be fun, creative, and sexy with other student athletes. So we put them in baggy shorts and heels, because you typically don\u2019t see that kind of thing. Then we do the shoot, and we just have fun with it! It\u2019s very spontaneous, it\u2019s very DIY, just like the nature of zines. We just go with it, and for some reason, the photos turn out really awesome.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"994\" height=\"797\" src=\"https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-10.17.42-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2752\" style=\"width:485px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-10.17.42-PM.png 994w, https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-10.17.42-PM-300x241.png 300w, https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-10.17.42-PM-768x616.png 768w, https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-10.17.42-PM-560x449.png 560w, https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-10.17.42-PM-260x208.png 260w, https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-10.17.42-PM-160x128.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 994px) 100vw, 994px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>MVP<\/em> (credit: Sydney Ciardi for <em>Dreamworldgirl Zine<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>FLOREZ: They do! They turn out so awesome. You guys produce some really great work. And I hope you know it\u2019s getting recognition all over campus. I was mentioning to a friend today and telling them that I was interviewing you, and they were like, \u201cOh my God! You\u2019re gonna talk to her? That\u2019s so cool! I look at that Instagram page all the time, I was just on their website in class.\u201d Like, you\u2019re a household name here and so is the zine!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BRYANT: Really? That\u2019s so funny, it makes me sound so Emceleb.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FLOREZ: Literally! Anyway, back to the actual thing we\u2019re doing. You talked about a lot of themes of girlhood, early 2000s aesthetic, women-filled space\u2014what are the themes that you feel resonate with your readers or people who engage with your content the most?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BRYANT: Oh my gosh, another good question.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FLOREZ: Thanks!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BRYANT: I really do, I really like your questions! But yes, let\u2019s see\u2026 The zine inherently is like, super queer. It\u2019s just really gay! So we post a lot of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamworldgirlzine.com\/blog\">gay articles on the blog<\/a>, I remember we posted this one about a masc lesbian that competed on <em>America\u2019s Next Top Model. <\/em>Anything that\u2019s queer, people eat that shit up. We have so many gay photoshoots coming up, I just finished the casting for a boyband shoot where it\u2019s only masc lesbians. Like, who is not gonna love that? So people really enjoy queer visibility. The fashion is also a huge aspect of what draws people to the zine. We started this new series on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dreamworldgirlzine\">our Instagram<\/a> story called \u201cCop or Drop\u201d which is when we find some 90s or early 2000s icon, like Jessica Alba or Paris Hilton, and we show all of their outfits with a poll that says \u201cCop or Drop,\u201d to say if you would wear it or not. Those get a ton of engagement. There\u2019s definitely more, like the collabs. We work with a lot of musicians, who are mostly up and coming, who are also really passionate about girlhood as a theme. That definitely draws a lot of people in. So those are the top three things I would say, especially the queerness aspect, like getting to see gay people be happy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"725\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-10.21.51-PM-1-725x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2754\" style=\"width:419px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-10.21.51-PM-1-725x1024.png 725w, https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-10.21.51-PM-1-213x300.png 213w, https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-10.21.51-PM-1-768x1084.png 768w, https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-10.21.51-PM-1-560x790.png 560w, https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-10.21.51-PM-1-260x367.png 260w, https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-10.21.51-PM-1-160x226.png 160w, https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-10.21.51-PM-1.png 909w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 725px) 100vw, 725px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Tearin&#8217; Up My Heart<\/em> pt. 1 (credit: Chloe Reyes for <em>Dreamworldgirl Zine<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>FLOREZ: So real, there\u2019s not enough media where you see gay people just being happy. Why do we always have to make them suffer?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BRYANT: Exactly! But yeah, and the fashion, people just like seeing cute clothes! Especially in Boston\u2014not to dog on Boston, Emerson is an exception\u2014but it\u2019s not the most creatively stimulating city. I think people, when they saw a zine that showed how they dress, it was fun for them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FLOREZ: Absolutely. Now we\u2019re going to shift and talk about you as the founder. What were you most afraid of when you decided you were going to start your own zine?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BRYANT: Okay, I have a two-part answer to this question. Sorry if my answer is long, at least you have content to work with. The one thing I was most scared of was people not liking it. I\u2019m such an impulsive person, in general, which is how the zine started. My girlfriend at the time, I told them I wanted to do it, and a day later, I just made the account. So I was excited, I didn\u2019t have a lot of fear about actually doing it. But, I was super conscious of how people were going to perceive it. I just hoped people would like it and not think I\u2019m cringy or think I\u2019m stealing from someone else, I just wanted people to like it really bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FLOREZ: And they do!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BRYANT: Yeah! Crazy! It was also a really strange time to be doing anything for personal gain, because at the time, like literally the day after I posted the first photoshoot pictures for the zine, the arrests happened on campus. Things just stopped. I was like, \u201cI need to lock the fuck in, I need to be here for my friends, for this cause that I care about, for this school that is struggling.\u201d It was a weird time. So I just thought that [the zine] would be a little thing I do over the summer, it probably won\u2019t go anywhere. That was what I was scared of.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FLOREZ: That\u2019s very valid, it was an insane time, and I think we all still feel it on campus now. Speaking of the present, are there any challenges or fears you have for the zine now?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BRYANT: A challenge that I\u2019m very conscious of is money, because we\u2019re independent, which means that we\u2019re not associated with a school or another organization. It literally just came out of my head and I started doing it. So all of the funding we get is from donations or sales\u2014which is great, because we have personal freedom, we get to do what we want without having to worry about something like the policies Emerson has put in that are extremely limiting on student voices. But yeah, we\u2019ve profited a good amount since we started, but it\u2019s still scary, because a week later people could decide that they don\u2019t fuck with us anymore. And it would just be over!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"724\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-11.00.28-PM-1-724x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2756\" style=\"width:300px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-11.00.28-PM-1-724x1024.png 724w, https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-11.00.28-PM-1-212x300.png 212w, https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-11.00.28-PM-1-768x1086.png 768w, https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-11.00.28-PM-1-560x792.png 560w, https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-11.00.28-PM-1-260x368.png 260w, https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-11.00.28-PM-1-160x226.png 160w, https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-11.00.28-PM-1.png 890w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Freak Zine<\/em> shoot with <a href=\"https:\/\/untitled.boston\">Untitled Boston<\/a> (credit: Lex Schlesinger)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>FLOREZ: Yeah, that\u2019s a valid fear. Being independent is freeing and limiting in its own ways. I\u2019m sure my next question is predictable, but is there anything about starting your own zine that makes you feel hopeful? What gets you really excited about being the founder of this project?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BRYANT: Oh, so much. I\u2019m going to not try and say a million things.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FLOREZ: Say a million things! I want to hear all of the things.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BRYANT: I\u2019m just so hopeful! One thing I really like about [being the founder] is the in-person community aspect. We threw a launch party for our first issue last month in Boston, and that was the first time we had done an in-person event. We did vending at a market the week before in a park in Brookline, it was super chill. There were maybe, like, five people that came to our booth and it was mostly old people. And they were lovely! But [the launch] was the first event specific to <em>Dreamworldgirl Zine<\/em>, everyone who was there was there for Dreamworldgirl, or for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sustainableswapss.com\">Sustainable Swaps<\/a>, the organization we partnered with. It just felt very much like <em>our <\/em>thing. It was so cool, there were people coming up to me that I had communicated with online but didn\u2019t really know, and they would come up to me and be like, \u201cYou\u2019re Daphne! I\u2019ve been wanting to meet you! I think the zine is so awesome!\u201d And then they would meet other people through [our event]. Two people that I hired for the event ended up meeting that day and are now best friends.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FLOREZ: Oh, that\u2019s awesome.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BRYANT: Yeah, it\u2019s so cool! That is like all I could hope for. That\u2019s what I wanted to happen with this zine. Some magazines are harder to build community around, but girlhood is such a communal idea that inherently, people just want to come together for something like that. That\u2019s one of the coolest things, when we have events like the market I just did in LA or the launch party, and people are meeting each other. They resonate with me, they resonate with the zine, and I\u2019ve never met them in my life. Like, they\u2019re literally across the country! That&#8217;s an impact that I can\u2019t really fathom, but I\u2019m really hopeful for the future if we grow and continue to do more things\u2026 Dreamworldgirl Nation. That\u2019s what I like to call it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FLOREZ: I love that, it\u2019s so true.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"731\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-11.04.55-PM-1-731x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2758\" style=\"width:356px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-11.04.55-PM-1-731x1024.png 731w, https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-11.04.55-PM-1-214x300.png 214w, https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-11.04.55-PM-1-768x1075.png 768w, https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-11.04.55-PM-1-560x784.png 560w, https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-11.04.55-PM-1-260x364.png 260w, https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-11.04.55-PM-1-160x224.png 160w, https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-11.04.55-PM-1.png 917w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 731px) 100vw, 731px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo from Sustainable Swaps x Dreamworldgirl Zine event (credit: @barbiabul on Instagram)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>BRYANT: I just want people to be like \u201cOh that\u2019s my favorite mag, I love everything that they do.\u201d Another thing I\u2019m hopeful for is\u2026 I would love to pay people better. Right now, I pay my staff and my contributors because I can. Because we just make\u2014oh, I sound so braggy right now\u2014we make enough money that I can pay all of my staff members, of which I have twelve. Last season, I paid them $8-$10 each, and contributors got $5-$10, and we had twenty-five of those. So, do the math on that! And that was only a fourth of what we made. Why would I gatekeep all of that money? Like, I created it and I\u2019m running shit, but it wouldn\u2019t be possible without the readers and the contributors and the editors and the marketing people and the models, so if I can give back, I\u2019m gonna do that. What I would love is if in the future, I could pay them even more, maybe bring on part-time people, make this a full-time thing for me\u2026&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FLOREZ: That\u2019s the goal, isn\u2019t it?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BRYANT: Yeah, like there\u2019s this one zine I idolize called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polyesterzine.com\"><em>Polyester<\/em><\/a>, and they\u2019re so cool. Granted, the editor has been in the business for ten years, so it might be a while before I get to that point. But that\u2019s her thing! She just runs her zine and she does all of the executive stuff for that, and that\u2019s where I wanna go. And I want to be able to give other people jobs, crazy as that sounds, but being able to give people the opportunity to be employed by a zine, that\u2019s where I want to end up.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FLOREZ: With the nature of zines, people have been saying that print is dead, or publishing is going all digital. What would you say is the role of a print zine in the current publishing landscape?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BRYANT: For me, I\u2019ve always loved print so much. I was so excited when I got to Emerson and saw that they were making print magazines. I think what\u2019s really awesome about it is that it\u2019s tangible. Being able to pick up a zine, look through it, flip the pages, sit down and read it, all while not staring at a phone screen\u2014there\u2019s something really special about that. Especially because we\u2019re moving into an era where [that experience] is less prominent all around.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FLOREZ: I notice it a lot too with reading in general, the rise of ebooks and audiobooks. That\u2019s not to say it\u2019s a bad thing, because a lot of the times those formats are a lot more accessible.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BRYANT: Of course! But yeah, I notice people reading on their phones now, and the general trend is that people aren\u2019t interested in the physical aspect [of reading] anymore. But a lot of people are, because at the same time that a lot of things are becoming digital, we\u2019re also seeing a resurgence in print. Like, I think <a href=\"https:\/\/www.j-14.com\"><em>J-14<\/em><\/a>,<em> <\/em>if you remember that, they\u2019re coming back! They started making print zines again this year, which is crazy, because so many magazines went out of business in the last decade. I think that now, people are starting to realize, \u201cHoly shit, technology is really taking over the world and our lives, and I just want to sit down and be able to fucking read something again.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"745\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-11.10.14-PM-1-745x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2760\" style=\"width:363px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-11.10.14-PM-1-745x1024.png 745w, https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-11.10.14-PM-1-218x300.png 218w, https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-11.10.14-PM-1-768x1056.png 768w, https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-11.10.14-PM-1-560x770.png 560w, https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-11.10.14-PM-1-260x357.png 260w, https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-11.10.14-PM-1-160x220.png 160w, https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-11.10.14-PM-1.png 924w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 745px) 100vw, 745px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>\u5343\u79a7\u6642\u5149\u6a5f<\/em> (credit: Tiffany To for <em>Dreamworldgirl Zine<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>FLOREZ: Is that where the nostalgia ties in?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BRYANT: Yeah, it\u2019s absolutley nostalgic. What a lot of people have told me about the zine is that it feels like they\u2019re a kid again, but in a more realized way and actionalized way. Part of that is the aesthetic, which is a lot of people\u2019s childhood, but the other part is they see an organization doing a lot to create community.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FLOREZ: Which there is an extreme need for in the face of \u201choly shit, technology is taking over the world,\u201d because that community is what makes us human.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BRYANT: Yes, yes! <em>That <\/em>is the role of print zines. And I want more. I hope people are like, \u201cWhat Daphne\u2019s doing is pretty cool, and I want to do it.\u201d I want a million zines on my bookshelf.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FLOREZ: Me too! When I went to the castle, I started a zine collection. I tried to get one from every country that I went to, and I\u2019ve now amassed this little collection. And don\u2019t you worry, there\u2019s a Dreamworldgirl in there. It\u2019s so fun to have something print that you can look at and it helps you reminisce.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BRYANT: Absolutely, that\u2019s so cool and important.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FLOREZ: It is! Why do you think that the zine industry is so important specifically for Dreamworldgirl\u2019s target audience?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BRYANT: I have so much more research to do on the history of zines, but from what I\u2019ve gathered, zines have been used a lot as a form of rebellion. I think about zines like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/30\/grrrl-collected\/\"><em>Riot Grrrl<\/em>,<\/a> which is part of what\u2019s inspiring our second issue. It really resonates with the youth because it\u2019s about subverting tradition and making super niche communities and spaces. As big and as visible as queerness has become in recent years, it is still a small community, which I feel like a lot of us forget. It\u2019s why when people see something that\u2019s queer or gay or sapphic or whatever, they\u2019re like \u201cOh my God I need it right now.\u201d I\u2019ll consume the newest sapphic media immediatley. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danisqueerbar.com\">newest lesbian bar just opened in Boston<\/a> and I heard the line was three blocks long. That\u2019s because we still very much need those spaces because at the end of the day, we\u2019re still a minority. So when people see those super niche spaces, they\u2019re need to have it. The zine has that kind of energy to it. It also goes off of the punk, super DIY vibe, that\u2019s something that I lot of people are into and have been into in every single generation. It\u2019s not just Gen Z, but in our generation, we just need more spaces to express this.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"748\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-11.15.06-PM-1-748x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2762\" style=\"width:338px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-11.15.06-PM-1-748x1024.png 748w, https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-11.15.06-PM-1-219x300.png 219w, https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-11.15.06-PM-1-768x1051.png 768w, https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-11.15.06-PM-1-560x766.png 560w, https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-11.15.06-PM-1-260x356.png 260w, https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-11.15.06-PM-1-160x219.png 160w, https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-11.15.06-PM-1.png 920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 748px) 100vw, 748px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Vixen <\/em>(credit: Bridget Plate for <em>Dreamworldgirl Zine<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>FLOREZ: The difference is that a lot of our spaces are virtual, so we lack the community aspect of punk sometimes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BRYANT: Yeah, so much of it is online now. I felt lucky, because when I came out two years ago\u2014well, this is a pro and a con. But I had TikTok when I came out, so I was able to research anything, and any question I had, there was some queer person who had made some kind of content about it on TikTok. There\u2019s a lot of queer people who are very vocal about who they are on that app, which inspired me to be really vocal about who I am. So that\u2019s great, but then you think about in-person spaces, which are lacking, especially for queer women and non-binary people I fear. Gay men, sorry to say it, but spaces are disproportionately made for them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FLOREZ: Especially white gay men.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BRYANT: Oh yeah, even less for anyone BIPOC. So\u2026 I\u2019m saying this all to say that when people see that our zine doesn\u2019t discriminate based on race, gender, or sexuality, it\u2019s pretty cool. And that probably answers the question.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FLOREZ: It\u2019s so real what you\u2019re saying, because a lesbian friend of mine tried to go to the new lesbian bar in Boston, she waited for two hours in line and then left because she just wasn\u2019t going to get in. It\u2019s the only club space in Boston for lesbians, and this problem could just be solved by having more fucking bars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BRYANT: Just have more!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FLOREZ: Yes, like the market is there! It\u2019s three blocks of a line there! I promise!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BRYANT: Literally! No, because let\u2019s talk about this. I\u2019m in LA right now, and I have this one bar that I\u2019ve been going to a lot because I love the vibes in there, it\u2019s called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.honeysla.com\">Honey\u2019s.<\/a> And it\u2019s not the only lesbian or sapphic bar or club in LA, so there are times that I\u2019ve gone there and there\u2019s no line, so you just get in, no cover. You just waltz right in and you\u2019re with a bunch of other queer women and non-binary people. It\u2019s awesome to have options. Like it\u2019s great that Dani\u2019s exists, but you\u2019re so right, like, give us more. We deserve more.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FLOREZ: It\u2019s so true. Okay, final question, a basic one, but what is one piece of advice you would give to someone who wants to start their own publication?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BRYANT: The first thing I\u2019ve been telling people is to have a niche and a unique concept. That sounds really simple, but it\u2019s actually not. Once you get into the zine community, you see the different magazines that are circulating online, we\u2019re mutuals with a lot of them. So many of them are so general. They\u2019re concept will be, \u201cWe want to make space for queer voices\u201d or \u201cWe are here to celebrate Black voices\u201d or \u201cWe are here for young people.\u201d That\u2019s great, but that doesn\u2019t tell anyone about your publication, that\u2019s just your audience.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FLOREZ: Wow, that\u2019s a great line, \u201cThat\u2019s not your publication, that\u2019s your audience.\u201d Sorry, continue.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"855\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-11.18.14-PM-1-855x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2764\" style=\"width:418px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-11.18.14-PM-1-855x1024.png 855w, https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-11.18.14-PM-1-251x300.png 251w, https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-11.18.14-PM-1-768x920.png 768w, https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-11.18.14-PM-1-560x671.png 560w, https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-11.18.14-PM-1-260x311.png 260w, https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-11.18.14-PM-1-160x192.png 160w, https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/undergraduate-students-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-11.18.14-PM-1.png 1053w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 855px) 100vw, 855px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Issue 2 theme reveal teaser (credit: Emma Cahill for <em>Dreamworldgirl Zine<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>BRYANT: Thank you! So, you want to be thinking about, \u201cWhat can I do with my concept to differentiate myself from others?\u201d You want to think about what makes you special. So for me, it was tapping into a time period. Y2K is our aesthetic. You don\u2019t have to have a time period to have a zine, but it helps. I\u2019ve seen 70s and 80s themed mags, those are really cool. For the DIY punk vibe, we follow this one magazine called <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/femicidezine\/\">Femicide Zine,<\/a><\/em> and their whole thing is 90s DIY punk zine. It\u2019s so specific. You go onto their page, and you see their feed, and you know exactly what kind of person is submitting to the zine and what type of person is reading the zine. That\u2019s what you want to do. You want to create a brand for your publication, because then it\u2019s easily recognizable. Another thing you want to do is think about tone. For any writing people out here, you\u2019ve heard of tone for writing! Tone can be applicable to pretty much anything. It\u2019s the same for entrepreneurship in terms of the vibe you want to give off. For us, it&#8217;s campy, cunt, gay, whimsical, but other mags are very serious, elegant, refined, demure. That\u2019s a vibe I love, because even though it\u2019s not my thing, I see that and I know who they are. They\u2019re catering the tone of their publication to one mood. The last thing for getting a niche is figuring out what medium you want your publication to be in. Sometimes, you\u2019ll think a certain medium doesn\u2019t fit, but it does. There\u2019s this one magazine based out here in LA, called <em>Dye It Red, <\/em>and they\u2019re only in print. Their issues are very limited edition, so you\u2019re not going to find it online, you have to buy a print issue. It creates a very cool exclusive vibe, which works, but there are also mags that are only digital. 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