Oh, it's 3 threads... And it's taken me more than an hour to finish up just one...

But @hinesjumpedup.bsky.social told me at #ESPRit2026 that he does enjoy my live-posting, so I'll keep going, just maybe not today...

Sabina Fazli is part of the project "Self-Formation and Categorical Concept Entrepreneurs in Zine Media":

- led by Oliver Scheiding, who presented after her at #ESPRit2026
- hosted by the collaborative research centre @sortingpeople.bsky.social based at @unimainz.bsky.social @ieg-mainz.bsky.social

Finally, the British *Paperboy Magazine* delivers only good news, according to its "About" page—forgot what Sabina said about it

❤️ the warning on the top of the home page:

"Orders from outside the UK please go to: antennebooks.com or magculture.com. Sorry we didn’t vote for Brexit :("

#ESPRit2026

Each issue of Berlin-based *Flaneur* (which looks weird to me without the "accent circonflexe"—flâneur) focuses on a specific street: the latest issue is about the boulevard Périphérique in Paris.

The magazine also organized a festival in 2019 and is available for talks and workshops.

#ESPRit2026

*Weird Walk* arose from the pandemic during which people where wandering differently through their cities to fight off the feeling of being cooped up

Its subtitle is "A journal of wanderings and wonderings from the British Isles"

It also proposes playlists, a podcast, a book & events

#ESPRit2026

Sabina Fazli then presented a sequence of 4 magazines that resonates w/ the theme of #ESPRit2026

I was amazed by the Italian *Sirene*'s commitment to environmental protection. Thematically focused on the ocean, it uses paper "made from algae, to make use of excess algal blooms from lagoons at risk"

Issues is another brick-and-mortar magazine shop, this time in Toronto, Canada...

Their "About" page doesn't say it's been open for how long, but it does credit magCulture for helping them set up the shop.

#ESPRit2026

magCulture combines a brick-and-mortar magazine shop in Clerkenwell, London (est. 2015) with a freely available online journal about the independent magazine industry.

#ESPRit2026

Sabina Fazli then introduced us to much more contemporary independent publishing!

She emphasized that it goes beyond material products to include spaces where people meet in person.

Indiecon 2026—combining a 2-day conference w/ an overlaping 2-day fair—had just taken place in Hamburg.

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The flagship periodical was *Scottish International Review* (1968-1974)...

Its records are held at the @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social Library Heritage Collections

#ESPRit2026

Had a 💥 at #ESPRit2026! Thanks to Julien Schuh, I met Bianca da Luz, who told me the *Deutsche Zeitungsportal* is where the digitized German newspapers live

Why wasn't I able to find that using Google?

Now—in the interest of closing tabs—I'll finish 2 threads for which I still have links to share😛

Had a wonderful few days at #ESPRit2026 conference @esprit-jeps.bsky.social in Brussels and enjoyed presenting my paper on women writers in British regional magazines 1900-1960. Thanks to all the organisers and speakers for a fantastic conference.

On my way back to Paris after three incredible days at the Royal Library of Belgium (KBR) for #ESPRit2026.

Beyond the stimulating keynotes and panels, today's highlight was undoubtedly a tour of the library's printing museum with the lovely and knowledgeable Bart Op de Beeck. Many thanks to him!

*Negro World* (1914-1933), founded by Marcus and Amy Ashwood Garvey, was the newspaper of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA).

#ESPRit2026

"Quarterly journal *The Keys* was first published in July 1933, with Jamaican-born Doctor Harold Moody as its editor. ‘The Official Organ of the League of Coloured Peoples,’ it aimed to address ‘the racial misunderstanding’ that was prevalent in society, both in Britain and beyond."
—BNA
#ESPRit2026

*The Crisis* is the official magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

Founded in 1910 by editor W. E. B. Du Bois, it is considered the oldest Black-oriented magazine in the world, and it is still running.

#ESPRit2026

Now back to my 19th century!

*The Anglo-African Magazine* (1859–1865) was published by African American abolitionist brothers Thomas Hamilton (1823–1865) and Robert Hamilton (1819–1870) in New York City during the American Civil War era

#ESPRit2026

I was not familiar with this airlift programme, to which participated the fathers of both Barack Obama and Zohran Mamdani...

Christopher Ouma recommended this book 👇

#ESPRit2026

Christopher Ouma starts with 🇰🇪 small magazine *Kwani?* founded in 2003.

Its 7th issue (2012) —"Majuu", meaning "abroad" in Nairobi's Sheng slang— creates an "archival imagination" regarding the airlift, a 1959-63 program that brought hundreds of students from East Africa to study in 🇺🇸🇨🇦

#ESPRit2026

Kenyan-born Christopher Ouma closes #ESPRit2026 w/ 1950s and 1960s African small magazines and civil rights & anti-Apartheid imagination

He opens his keynote with a personal archival vignette: he found a letter to a friend's father in the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Archive in @bostonu.bsky.social😲