I love when, near the end of the semester, I begin see connections between materials in my different classes that I never thought I would find. This recently happened to me in my “Women’s Magazines and the Female Journalist” class at CMC when we learned about zines. Although it’s difficult to describe what zines are in one sentence, they are typically self published, not-for-profit magazines, and, in the context of my CMC class, we learned about zines written by and for girls. I knew nothing about zines—I don’t even think I had heard the term before coming to my class—but I immediately saw many intersections between them and blogs. Although zines are still flourishing, it seems like blogs are becoming the zines of today. Both pride themselves in allowing users to “speak” (or write) in an informal, unpolished, and more “natural” way. They are real voices (as much as printed words can represent a voice), and, in both, the writers are very open and honest.