Ethical Roadmap Zine Assignment
Ethical Roadmap Zine Assignment
As a final project in this class, in groups of three or four, students will make ethical roadmap zines. This roadmap will capture your learning over the course of the semester about the values that you want to guide your career, and about the tools and skills that you have developed or want to develop to support you as you encounter bumps in the road. Your roadmap may not exceed the equivalent of 6 pieces of 8” x 11” paper, but can be formatted however you want. It will be turned in electronically. This assignment is due on March 22.
Your ethical roadmap will be graded on:
- Self-awareness and depth of reflection (50%)
- Recruitment of useful tools and frames from our class (and beyond if you choose) (35%)
- Organization and presentation (15%)
Zines are self-published booklets that circulate between people, often within a subculture Links to an external site., allowing people to share ideas without engaging in formal publishing systems. You might think of them as a precursor to blogs, but they have continued to be an important form of idea sharing even after the internet made more forms of informal publishing possible.
There are many ways to create and design a zine. Your zine might include essays, useful quotes, checklists, self-assessment quizzes, maps for navigating thorny territory in your lives, letters to or from your future selves, lists of your values or commitments, images, and much more. Below you will find some examples of zines so you can get inspired by what they can look like.
Here are some further ideas of potential entries in your zines:
- How has the law school workload changed me, my relationships, my habits and what about that do I want to examine as I enter law practice? What do I need to shift and change to ensure work/life balance, health, and well-being?
- What is my relationship to electronic media like and how might it impede my professional life? What do I want to do to address that?
- How have consumerism and materialism impacted my career choices? What are my concerns about that? What are useful steps to ensuring I get to do work I believe in?
- What messages have I received from family, culture, education and elsewhere about money, status and career? How have those impacted my choices so far? What critical assessment do I have of those messages and how could it shape my next steps?
- What style of leadership has law school (or other experiences) cultivated in me? In what ways would I like to change or supplement it so that I can collaborate and lead in ways that align with my highest values?
- What are my "automatic settings" during conflict? Are any of them negatively impacting me or people I work with or am close to? What kinds of skills and capacities would I like to build for engaging with conflict differently? How might I go about that?
- What happens for me when I receive critical feedback? How could I improve my capacity to receive critical feedback? Why would I want to?
- When am I afraid to give critical feedback? How could I improve my capacity to give critical feedback? Why is it important to me to have that skill?
- What are the limits of what I would do in my work as an attorney in order to abide by my ethics and values? What would make me quit a job or refuse a job? What aspects of these limits do I want to think about and clarify before entering the job market?
- What does it mean to me to take care of myself? How does law school or lawyering potentially get in the way? How can I strike a balance?
Your zine should reflect and equal collaboration between partners. This assignment will account for 30% of your grade. You are expected to work on this project outside of class, but some class time will be provided to allow https://ia802709.us.archive.org/1/items/WhatsTheNon-profitIndustrialComplexAndWhyShouldICare/whats_the_npic.pdf Links to an external site.you to meet with your group, in recognition of your varied schedules.
Examples of Zines
(Note: Some zines are laid out to be printed and folded, so that they read as a booklet. Others are made to be read online. Check out the page numbers if you are reading online to make sure you are reading the pages in order or it might be confusing, if it was designed to be printed and folded. If you decide to layout your zine to be folded, here are some instructions Links to an external site. for different approaches.)
- Self As Other: Reflections on Self-Care Links to an external site.
- Learning Good Consent Links to an external site.
- Students Guide to Radical Healing Links to an external site.
- You Don’t Have to Love Your Body to Take Care of It Links to an external site.
- Asian American Feminist Antibodies (Care in the Time of Coronavirus) Links to an external site.
- Asian American Feminist Collective: How to Make History Links to an external site.
- Miklat Miklat: A Transformative Justice Zine Links to an external site.
- How to Talk to Your Mexican Family About Racism Download How to Talk to Your Mexican Family About Racism
- From Banks and Tanks to Cooperation and Caring: A Strategic Framework for a Just Transition Links to an external site.
- Mapping Our Madness: A Workbook for Navigating Crisis, Extreme States, or Just Foul Moods Links to an external site.
- What’s the NPIC? Links to an external site.
- Radical Empathy in Archival Practice Links to an external site.
- Queering Friendships Zine Links to an external site.