Despite what I wrote in my last post here, since our new Barnard hosted blog doesn't allow comments, we will occasionally need to have discussions here on LiveJournal or elsewhere. (btw note that we're also on Facebook with no log in required and Twitter)

Today's query is similar to one I posted in 2008 about adding zines on femme identity by people ( Read more... )

Now that we have a spiffy new content management system driven website with a blog, we will no longer be posting here.

Check us out at http://zines.barnard.edu. Please let us know what you think. Even hate is welcome, as long as it's constructive. : )

You can leave comments here. We'll still read them. Or you can email zines@barnard.edu.

Freshly cataloged -- Living Doll Disaster: Comix by Jennifer Whiteford

I love this short, full size minicomic with comics about:

* sexism against women musicians

"When my ex-roommate went to try out electric [guitar]s she had a hard time getting noticed . . .
"After she tried a few and decided that they were crappy, the salesguy actually said, 'There ( Read more... )

This event looks cool. I love things like this where people empower themselves rather than rely on institutions to create things like museums, libraries, and archives. I also love the pop-up/ephemeral nature of it.

The Pop-Up Museum of Queer History
Friday, January 14 at 5:00pm - January 15 at 12:00am LocationStarr st house
207 Starr St.
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As we are approaching our 11th hour of finals, the zine library wants to wish you a happy holiday break with some zine-related endeavors you might explore in your time off:

Before you go...
- Pick up the zine about bad-ass women from the Barnard Zine Club! It's available at the library reference desk, the Diana Center, and several dorms - but beware ( Read more... )

Ever been standing in the Barnard zine stacks and wonder: is this all there is?

I mean, sure, we all know about ZAPP (the Zine Archive and Publishing Project in Seattle), and that they sell zines at Bluestockings and The Strand, but have you ever wondered about other zine purveyors? How about distros? Or any other independent media location?

Well, ( Read more... )

You're alone. You're in the midst of writing a research paper, reading four different books for three different classes, and your head is about to explode. You know that you like to read, but this amount of work is just killing the drive to look at any more pieces of text. You feel like you haven't picked up a decent fiction in months.
A lot of ( Read more... )

Have you ever been folding countless pieces of paper in a dimly lit room with your hard rock/metal/underground hip hop/80's pop music playing and thought about how lonely the life of a zinester can be? We spend hours and hours crafting our vision, pouring all our energies into the finished product that is another issue of our zine. And, although ( Read more... )

At the Base of the Mountain is a brilliant perzine about the struggles of one mixed-race Colombian/Caucasian American and her attempts at reconciling her lived experience with what others perceive her to be.
When I was reading this zine, I got caught up in the great writing that author Bella produces. It is a really accessible zine because Bella ( Read more... )

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