A digital magazine in newsletter format, the dead zine was first published starting in February 2024. The creator and lead writer behind this project, Nneka M. Okona, began the dead zine to have a space to write fluidly about Black grief and wider Black death culture. Through an autoethnographic approach, Nneka writes essays that merge personal reflection, criticism, analysis, deep research and journalism reporting technique to relay facts and other essential information.
In the first season of the dead zine, essays centered around the theme of food including pieces on funeral fried chicken, cookbook collections as personal food archives, the last meal that Martin Luther King, Jr. never ate, the ritual of last meals and the last meals of those incarcerated, the concept of grief casseroles and more.
The theme of Season 2 of the dead zine is body. Click HERE to subscribe.
