Back covers equally as beautiful and unique as our front covers. 😍 In order of appearance: Back Cover 1: Black Disabled Lines Matter graphic by @JTKnoxRoxs Back Cover 2: Artwork of @ItsYoSquared by Yo-Yo Lin Back Cover 3: @HangLinton photographed by @Daniel_Mutton Back Cover 4: Intimate back portrait by @robertandycoombs2 Back Cover 5: @Charliejlfitz photographed by @OscarVinter (this cover is now SOLD OUT) Thank you to all of our wonderful collaborators. We look forward to sharing more of their work with you from inside this issue! Issue 2 is currently available to buy from our website and we are happy to provide discount codes for people with low/no income - just get in touch via email or DM. We will be sharing access to digital copies in the coming weeks ☺️ Video Description: A video of the 5 back covers of Able Issue Two creatively transitioning between them. (Descriptions of these can be found in our most recent posts.) The last cover spins out of focus revealing a pink gradient background with blue text that reads “Issue 2”, and then “Order Now” “ablezine.com” before it transitions with a pixelated effect to the same background but with a blue graphic icon of the ‘A’ shaped able zine walker logo centred in the middle and text in blue that reads “” below.

Within Able Zine’s ‘Environment’ Issue 2. the ‘technological environments’ section explores and considers the future for the intersection of disability and tech. Within the section is ‘Disability and The Social Media State’ a personal and research based essay by writer Sarah Tucker. As a disabled Asian woman @ChirishGirl considers her experiences of navigating social media and online communities as a disabled person. Alongside this piece, we commissioned artist Matilda Sabal to create a series of tarot card style digital collages. These images highlight some of the contentious and important issues surrounding social media and online disability communities. @fierce_invalids is an artist and disabled activist living and working in Brooklyn. Alongside their art practice, they are a member of Bluestockings Cooperative, as well as a co-author of Sick of It! A Disability inside/outside project. Find more of their work at MatildaSabal.Com or @Fierce_Invalids Issue 2 is still available to purchase online, discount codes available on request, and an interactive PDF is also now available to buy on our website. #GraphicDesign #Illustrator #Illustration #Designer #DisabledAndProud #ChronicIllness #ChronicallyIll #Spoonie #Disabled #Disability #Artist #Collage #CollageArt #SocialMedia #Zine #EditorialDesign #Magazine #Diverse #Inclusive #AbleZine #Editorial #Online #Accessibility #Access

Look at all these superstars on the cover of Issue 2! Now available to order from our website before more covers sell out! Cover 1: @Charliejlfitz photographed by @Davidpdhyde *SOLD OUT* Cover 2: @Lauralulika photographed by @Daniel_Mutton Cover 3: Self portrait by @robertandycoombs2 Cover 4: Artwork of @ItsYoSquared by Yo-Yo Lin Cover 5: NAMD Advocates photography by @jtknoxroxs Thank you to all of our wonderful cover artists 💙 Video Description: A video of the 5 front covers of Able Issue 2 creatively transitioning between them. The last cover spins out of focus revealing a pink gradient background with blue text that reads “Issue 2”, and then “Order Now” “ablezine.com” before it transitions with a pixelated effect to a pink gradient background with a blue graphic icon of the ‘A’ shaped able zine walker centered and text in blue that reads “” below.

Images from our workshop ‘Publishing for All Bodies and Minds’ at the wondering @librosmutantes Art Book Fair hosted at @lacasaencendida We had the privilege of coming to the fair to talk about print and digital accessibility. We covered the theory through the mismatch model of disability, intersectionality and unconscious bias in publishing. Then we moved into practical design applications by exploring alt text, image descriptions, plain language, typeface legibility, colour contrast, tactility, and alternative navigation methods. After the presentation, we worked with participants to craft small zines, creatively prototyping ways to experiment with accessibility using readily available materials. We led two groups: the High Contrast Zine group, in which participants were invited to use colour contrast to create increasingly accessible designs, building page by page toward bolder, more legible combinations. And the Image Description Zine group, who prioritised font size and legibility, while describing images bilingually. While short on time, we were still blown away by the care and inventiveness of the zines produced. With the right tools, knowledge and language, accessibility becomes a creative avenue and portal for knowledge sharing and connection. We really look forward to bringing this workshop into a virtual format soon. And we welcome potential collaborators who would like to join us. If you’re a venue, institution or publisher that would like to host this workshop in person, please email [email protected] and we can talk! For more details about the book fair and our time there, head over to our substack. A huge thank you to the organisers, co-facilitator and design researcher @aksanaberdnikova and access support from @elenafromaustin IDs in comments, alt text embedded

ANNOUNCEMENT 📣We’re making swag! Able Zine merch is about to takeover the spot so what merch do you wanna see us make? Tees, totes and hats are on the way but we want you to feel part of the journey as well. So we’re asking our followers to send us slogans - LIKE your favs and we’ll get them designed and made. (& Also offer freebies to the winning ideas.) So please engage, we are searching for ways to fund this publication so we can keep making more issues and content! #DesignMerch #Merchandise #Merch #DisabledMedia #AbleZine ID1: A white T-shirt mockup with the caption “Send us your best t-shirt slogans” above it and “So we can make another issue” below it. ID2: A white T-shirt mockup with the caption “Send us your best t-shirt slogans” above it and “So we can fund this magazine” below it. ID:3 A white T-shirt mockup with the text “Disabled Media Rocks” printed in black on the chest.

Our latest newsletter is out now! Able Zine headed to @paulmelloncentr for a two day symposium of disabled artists and researchers brought together for the ‘What is Research Now’ curation on Disabled Legacies: Beyond Access and Inclusion. We had the privilege of witnessing talks on history, practice and disability justice from @tonyheaton1 @huedotart @marbledmayhem @naomiortizwriterartist @syrusmarcus and many more! We also reviewed the in-person exhibition currently on display at the centre called ‘Misfits: Disability as Method Through Objects’, which features artworks from disabled artists from 1800s to the present day. If you’re in London, there’s 3 more days left to see it! The events truly felt like an extravaganza of disabled excellence, but you’ll have to read the review to discover more. Head to the link where it always is! #Substack #DisabilityArts #DisabilityHistory #ArtReview #PaulMellonCentre

Publishing for all bodies & minds Hosted by @ablezine , this workshop explores inclusive publishing through high contrast, legibility and alternative formats, challenging bias and rethinking design for diverse bodies and minds. Practical takeaways to elevate your work in human-centric and inclusive creative practices. Free activity. Sign-up via @lacasaencendida website. Limited to 20 places. Libros Mutantes @librosmutantes Madrid Art Book Fair 2026 24–26 April at @lacasaencendida @fmontemadrid Thanks to: Embajada de los Países Bajos @nlinspain Centro Checo @centrocheco

Some more words from our recent substack interview with Cielo Saucedo. “To be virtual is a simultaneity, multiple states acting all at once, becoming amplified. The digital body in my work is as actual as my blood body turned around and around by augmentation. The extremity comes from the realization that the digital and the natural are dependent on one another, and the border that separates them is in service of their own construction. They generate each other. And I generate myself through that too. I think about the audience a lot, too. How the work is networked through them, extended through the other.” - @rare_earth_mineral Works: Captioning System (2024) Sublux (2023) Maseca, LA tap water, self tanner, Nescafe ID 1: A tall, tripod-mounted metal apparatus stands against a white gallery wall. A horizontal metal bar extends from the top, with small mechanical components, exposed wiring, and a compact camera or sensor attached. The structure resembles a hybrid between studio equipment and a custom surveillance. ID2: A form resembling a human foot rests on a white surface. The foot is textured, brown, and rough, with visible cracks and layered ridges. The ankle area appears broken or eroded, suggesting fragility, weight, and bodily wear. #Artist #Interview #DisabilityArts #DisabilityCulture

“The softwares that we used to make our work interfered with our ability to show our bodies as we felt them. Olivia had been using biased character generators to create narratives about disability. Our project is an archive of motion capture made with people in our communities and a resource for other artists to use the data we collect in their own projects. We embrace the inability for software to capture the intricacies of disabled movement. It’s been a joy and it operates in a very crip way. Our capacity is flux, the softwares are flux, the people we work with are flux, the representative data flux. The project is built on that at its core.” From our interview with Cielo Saucedo, @rare_earth_mineral , for more head to our Substack. 🔗 in bio Works: Cripping CG (ongoing) featuring @nat_decker__ and @oliviadreisinger Captioning System (2024) Machine vision model, led strips, vinyl, wire, solder, 5v power supply, PC tower, tape, PixBlaster chip, motherboard spacers, screws, bolts, steel angle, plywood, extension cord, C stand, DC motor, speed modulator, steel zip ties, 12v battery pack, security camera, plexiglass, threaded bolt, battery pack. 216 x 36 inches +549 x 91.5 cm. ID1: A Portrait of cripping_cg collaborators. Three people appear side by side against a white background, 3D scanned with soft edges and slight visual distortion. They wear layered, textured clothing in muted tones of black, rust, and beige. Their expressions are neutral to contemplative, and their overlapping forms give the image a composite scanned quality. ID 2: An installation view shows a long, horizontal LED text display mounted low along a white gallery wall. The scrolling text emits white light, partially readable as it moves across the strip. To the left, exposed electronics, cables, and a black equipment tower are visible.

In our latest substack we speak to Cielo Saucedo, @rare_earth_mineral , LA based artist and access worker. Drawing on their family’s migratory history, their work dissects and exposes ableism and labour exploitation in US politics and regimes. Juxtaposing digital augmentation and machine vision with found and material objects inherent to the land and the body, their work straddles the material and immaterial, conveying the felt intensity of both in our current societal climate. “My family’s migratory history, their lives as migrant farm workers are the context in which I make my work and that has so much to do with the US. All of that comes into contact with my own labor as a disabled person, who, because of my disability is often prevented from being seen as a worker at all. I have made work about welfare systems that I’ve been part of. I want to misuse the systems.” Head to our Substack to read and please consider becoming a subscriber to support our work. ❤️ Interview by @lilguerrera Works: Sword of Damocles NOTHING POWER, 2025 3D printed Maseca, self tanner, paper pulp, lamictal, steel, knives confiscated by the TSA. ID1: A form of a human torso made of cracked, cracked and layered material floats against a white background. Various kitchen shears, pocket knives and switch blades protrude from its surface. The texture is rough and fragmented, evoking erosion, damage, or compression. ID 2: A wide view of a white gallery space filled with light haze or fog. Two small, square wall-mounted sculptures made of cracked, clay-like material protrude from opposite walls, each embedded with metal rods. In the centre of the room, a metal A-frame structure stands amid cables and equipment on the floor. Overhead fluorescent lights evenly illuminate the space, while the haze softens the edges of the architecture and objects. ID3:A similar cracked, clay-like square sculpture is shown from a different angle. Protruding metal knives extend outward in multiple directions, emphasizing tension. The surface appears fractured and layered, as if stressed or partially collapsed.

The mags have landed! And they are looking for new homes 🏡 We had a bit of delay due to printing errors, but the new copies are finally here and they are gorgeous. We truly cannot wait to ship more out, especially to people that have never seen or read Able Zine before! Please send this to anyone you think would like it. We are actively looking for more libraries, universities, schools and museums to stock in, because this kind of media deserves to be archived and kept as a resource for future generations. Thank you for all the sales and support so far. Purchase through our website while stocks last :) Video Description: a video of boxes landing on the door step. Claudia opens the boxes and removes the packaging to show off the new cover of Able Zine and show shots of the inside. At the end you see some magazines being shipped at the post office. #AbleZine #Magazine #Disability

Back Cover Reveal 🗒️ Our back cover is a tribute to zine culture with a scan of a note pad with the Alt Text for our front cover hand written as a poetic note. Thank you to @aksanaberdnikova for the support on graphic design. And an honorary shoutout to @finneganshann0n and @bojana_coklyat for coining the term Alt Text As Poetry and with it, creating a body of work of culture-shifting impact. Please check out alt-text-as-poetry.net 💙 We are ready to print, and therefore this is the last chance to support this project, by either making a purchase or gifting a donation. We’ve made £700 out of the £900 goal with the help of some really lovely people and the community, thank you! I know the Xmas period makes January spending extra difficult but if you have anything to spare, it will go towards uplifting disabled creatives, honouring Deniz and proceeds go to Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy UK. Sharing this also brings us further to our goal :) We’ll be going to print by the end of this week, can’t wait to share the glossy babies with you soon! 👀 if you’ve already purchased a copy, it will be posted by Feb 5th. Thank you! #AbleZine #DisabilityPublication #DisabledCreatives #Zine #SelfPublishing