Below are a few selections from the 18 zines currently (as of August 22, 2025) returned in a search for < zines hurricane* katrina > wherein the * is a truncation symbol that tells our lil indexer to find anything with the root "hurricane." In this case, maybe just "hurricane" and "hurricanes."
Crescent City stories
Author Nicki Sabalu was a volunteer during the cleanup of post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans. She writes and draws her experiences there and provides a list of community resources. She gives a history of NOLA and discusses the concepts of home and community. This zine has a black cardstock cover with a color photograph pasted on the front.
New Orleans, My Love
This heartbreaking zine gives a first-person account of the devastation New Orleans residents suffered during and after Hurricane Katrina. Buddhist bike mechanic Shelley Jackson describes her grief at the destruction of the city she feels deeply rooted in, as she evacuates and returns as soon as possible to volunteer at spaces set up for the "refugees," begins to clean up her water-sodden house, and feeds starving pets left behind during the storm. Issues of poverty, governmental neglect, and systemic racism are addressed in this zine, which also includes several hand-drawn illustrations of the city of New Orleans.
Spring Break New Orleans
Benedetto's art zine documents a spring break trip taken by a group of African-American college students to work with the People's Hurricane Relief Fund in the Lower 9th Ward, a black neighborhood in New Orleans devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
What I Saw from Where I Stood
In the first half of this zine, Eva Louise details driving a car that runs on recycled vegetable oil on a road trip with a volunteer group to help clean up New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. She talks about the safe handling of black mold, how to kill it, and herbal remedies for coughing and urinary tract infections that can be caused by mold. She also describes her reactions to losing Meg, a member of the volunteer crew, and includes a history of Meg's life, their friendship, grief, and thoughts on life and death. The second half of the zine includes a letter to the author's friend in drug rehab, DIY maternity pants and nursing bra instructions, feelings about her young daughter and eating placenta, thoughts on getting an IUD birth control device, being a straightedge parent in the punk community, and pregnancy and body image.
Where You From. No. 3, Stories About Returning
Hope Amico, a Hurricane Katrina evacuee, revisits the places she has called home over the years. The zine is typewritten and includes maps and photos.
This split flipzine focuses on the strengths and vulnerabilities of marginalized people and communities. Why You Will Live is subtitled "On Self-Sufficiency, Intersectionality, & The Strength of the Marginalized," and contains writing about gentrification, intersectionality, generational change, and the difference between self-segregation and self-reliance. Why You Will Die is subtitled "On Distrust, Disasters, & Desperation," and contains writing about how capitalist systems are quick to disown members of marginalized communities, particularly during disasters. The zine provides the example of Keeley Williams, a lesbian SWAT paramedic in New Orleans who received poor treatment from FEMA during Hurricane Katrina due to her domestic partnership. There is information about the Wheelhouse, an art distro and supporting resource for people with marginalized identities in Toronto. The zine contains typewritten text and collaged black and white images.