In spring of 2016, Markee Speyer and Jacqueline Cantu launched Ginger, a collaborative feminist art zine that featured the works of their close friends. That circle has grown into a web of creative self-identified women, queer, trans, and gender non-conforming individuals, aiming to suppress the dominance of patriarchal networking systems.

“We wanted a way to visualize the great work that the women we know are doing,” Speyer said. Based in Bushwick and Chicago, the zine is released quarterly both in print and online.

Much like the plant that inspired its name, Ginger’s network spreads through connections. Ginger plants are rhizomes, which are plants with a  horizontal underground plant stem capable of producing the shoot and root systems of a new plant.