WORCESTER QUARANZINE GIVES VOICE TO PANDEMIC FEELINGS
“Try to remember this,” Gabe Rollins wrote in the first edition of the Worcester Quaranzine, a new project seeking to give a platform to people to articulate thoughts about being cooped up in Worcester through a historic pandemic.
“Whatever you might be feeling about all of this right now is valid. Do not let anyone make you feel like it isn’t. For most of us it is absolutely unprecedented what we are going through. You have every right to feel the myriad of emotions you are feeling about our situation.”
What follows Rollins’ words is a collection of weirdo outsider art, observations, doodles and diary entries that comprise the first edition of the Worcester Quaranzine. In the true tradition of zines, a medium with do-it-yourself punk rock roots going back to at least the '80s, the Quaranzine is a scattershot of ideas and art all focused on the way Worcester folks have handled the pandemic.