Bonus 115: Behind the Zines - Interview with Leah Velleman

lingthusiasm:Bonus 115: Behind the Zines - Interview with Leah Velleman | LingthusiasmWe’ve been hearing from people that you’re trying to get others to be as enthusiastic about linguistics as you are, but it can be sort of hard to make the podcasts you’re into leap off your phone and into people’s hands. Zines, small DIY magazines, are a cute tactile format currently undergoing a renaissance (shoutout to anyone who was around for the nineties zine wave, or an even earlier one!). So we’ve made some Lingthusiasm zines that you can print off and share with people in your life or scatter around and hope people might pick up!Links to all the zines so far are below, if you want to see them right now, but in this bonus episode, Gretchen and Lauren go Behind the Zines with our technical editor Leah Velleman (you might recognize her name from the end credits) about the process behind making the first four Lingthusiasm zines! We talk about how Leah got into linguistics through Lord of the…