Digital Zine (2025)

A zine that uses the language of plants to explore how discrimination grows, shifts, and takes root.

Project Description

Discrimination: A Non-Definitive Botanical Guide is a digital zine that combines illustrations and text to map experiences of bias and difference. Using the form of a botanical guide, the project treats discrimination as something that can be observed, described, and questioned, without being pinned down to one definition.

The zine plays with the idea of classification: what it means to name, label, and sort. By presenting discrimination through the lens of plants, it highlights how categories can both help us make sense of the world and quietly reinforce exclusion. Each page pairs image and text, creating a non-linear reading experience that encourages reflection rather than fixed conclusions.

Calling itself “non-definitive,” the guide emphasises that no single description of discrimination is complete. Instead, it opens a space for readers to notice patterns, question assumptions, and consider how bias takes form in everyday life.

Audience Response

“Oh my stars Leah, I love this! Made me feel something, imagine possibilities of people reading it in places around me.
Letting it sink and shimmer.”

“Leah, I love this so much, thank you so much for sharing it”

Read the Zine

• Digital Zine Website

Exhibitions & Performances

This zine was exhibited and performed with the duo Le&Lo at the Festival der Kulturen in Bern in March, 2025.

Performance video coming soon.