Fanzine "How to Feminize your City"
This fanzine was created as a quick, friendly invitation to observe and reimagine our cities!
It lays out the main ideas behind TransFemina, like intersectional feminism, collective action, care and desire politics, critical thinking, dialogue, and sensitive recognition, all the concepts that weave through the project from start to finish.
The publication invites you into a simple exercise you can do alone or with others. It’s inspired by the methods experimented in the project’s Local Laboratories and takes the form of guiding questions that help you become more aware of how you exist and move through public space. There are blank spaces to jot down thoughts, observations, and anything the prompts spark.
How do you observe the people and the city around you? What do you notice—or not notice? How does your body feel where you are right now? How do you move through your city, and with whom? Can you rest? Do you feel safe? Do you enjoy being in public spaces? Who takes care of you? Who takes care of the city? Do you feel represented in public space, and where?
When unfolded completely, the fanzine turns into a poster with the project’s big central question: “How much space, physical and symbolic, do women occupy in the city?”
Download here and print it for yourself!!
The fanzine is available in English, Portuguese, Catalan and Italian. You can print it in colour, black and white, or if you want and can, in risography!
Imagining, Designing, Creating
From day one, the Hungarian collective DRUKKER dove right into TransFemina. During an internal meeting in Barcelona, DRUKKER took the spotlight to share their artistic process: techniques, colours, illustration styles—basically the whole toolbox that could shape the future TransFemina fanzine. After that, they jumped into a period of visual experimentation, mixing illustration, typography, and collage to figure out the publication’s overall vibe. By October 2024, they presented the first visual structure of the fanzine, sparking collaborative discussions that helped define the concept and layout.
Fast-forward to early 2025: partners worked together online to build the content. Then, during the March Encounter in Porto, everyone gathered for a special session to polish the final structure. That week, DRUKKER also led a hands-on workshop where partners imagined their “desired city” using collage and drawing—a moment of collective creativity that later became the inspiration for the poster featured inside the fanzine.
What followed was a series of online revisions to fine-tune the storytelling, balance images and text, and adjust the overall flow. By late spring, the team was testing colour palettes, tweaking compositions, and preparing translations into Portuguese, Catalan, and Italian.
By July 2025, the final illustrations and layouts were approved, and the fanzine moved into production. All 1200 copies (300 in each of the four languages) were printed via risography and folded one by one—handmade from start to finish.
