Zines in the Barnard Library: Collecting, Providing Access and Preserving

Zines from the BorderlandsPresented by Zine Librarian Jenna Freedman

Zines from the Borderlands: Storytelling about Mixed-HeritageBrooklyn Historical Society, 2014

Browse your zine & excerpt. Discuss with your group on one or more of these questions:

• How is mixed heritage identity expressed (or hidden) in the zine?

• What are the visual elements, and how do they interact with the text—support, contradict, call attention to?

• Why did the author choose this medium?

Barnard's zines are written by women (cis- and transgender) with an emphasis on zines by women of color. We collect zines on feminism and femme identity by people of all genders. The zines are personal and political publications on activism, anarchism, body image, third wave feminism, gender, parenting, queer community, riot grrrl, sexual assault, trans experience, and other topics.

http://clio.columbia.edu/catalog?q=zines+mixed&rows=100&search_field=all_fields&commit=Search

Gratuitous catQuinn, fosterling ofErin Fae, poses with Imaginary Windows #4

Credits & Links• Cover slide photo from post on Brooklyn

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