Barnard Zine Library

Barnard Zine Library Barnard's zines are created by women and non-binary people, a collection emphasis on zines by BIPOC and an effort to acquire more zines by trans women.

We collect zines on feminism and femme identity by people of all genders.... We also 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, and other topics.

New zines this week!Ker-Bloom 165 by The Down-Low on DIY by Kimberly Capron GonzalezRevolution Womxn Style Now by Kimbe...
02/12/2025

New zines this week!
Ker-Bloom 165 by
The Down-Low on DIY by Kimberly Capron Gonzalez
Revolution Womxn Style Now by Kimberly Capron Gonzalez
Your Friends Mifepristone and Misoprostol by
Healing from a Bad Breakup by
How to Attach a Patch by Kimberly Capron Gonzalez

Today at the Barnard Zine Library operated a zine maker space at Barnard’s first ever Zora Neale Hurston Summit! They w...
01/31/2025

Today at the Barnard Zine Library operated a zine maker space at Barnard’s first ever Zora Neale Hurston Summit! They will be back tomorrow, February 1st from 12-4pm and the event series is completely free and open to the public!

Today at the Barnard Zine library operated a zine maker space at Barnard’s first ever Zora Neale Hurston Summit! They...
01/31/2025

Today at the Barnard Zine library operated a zine maker space at Barnard’s first ever Zora Neale Hurston Summit! They will be back in the Zine Library tomorrow Saturday, February 1st if you want to check it out. The Zora Neale Hurston Summit is free and open to the public!

This 2020 zine by .art was presumably about navigating COVID, but it turned up today in with the sentiment “you can’t ...
01/31/2025

This 2020 zine by .art was presumably about navigating COVID, but it turned up today in with the sentiment “you can’t bully yourself into feeling better.”

Doing some stacks maintenance and found four zines listed as missing! Not Quite Israfel #5, 1999Unamswerable Questions ...
01/30/2025

Doing some stacks maintenance and found four zines listed as missing!
Not Quite Israfel #5, 1999
Unamswerable Questions v1 n1: Men, Women, and Chainsaws, 2006
Totally Radical Muslims: A Bitchin’ Zine! 2011
What the Ladies Have to Say: Interviews with Activists in Palestine, Indonesia, and the Philippines, 2000

We just accessioned our first braille zines! Buzz-Zine v. 1-2 by Jessica and Michael Stokes. Thanks Barnard Digital Huma...
01/22/2025

We just accessioned our first braille zines! Buzz-Zine v. 1-2 by Jessica and Michael Stokes. Thanks Barnard Digital Humanities Center for passing them along!

Today in : .books acquisitions from kind of a long time ago.
01/16/2025

Today in : .books acquisitions from kind of a long time ago.

We’re adding our first 2025-published zine to the zine library. It’s Your Library Insider by P. McFluffypants, which we ...
01/16/2025

We’re adding our first 2025-published zine to the zine library. It’s Your Library Insider by P. McFluffypants, which we suspect is an alias.

Today in Draw Blood by “Stoic is one of the most f**ked-up words in the English language. We have all been taught to r...
12/20/2024

Today in
Draw Blood by

“Stoic is one of the most f**ked-up words in the English language. We have all been taught to revere those who remain silent about the obstacles they face, the pain they endure. We honor people who choose to keep their own personal tragedies and traumas to themselves, so that the rest of us need not confront the horrors that they have faced. But stoicism is just a fancy word for shame. Secrets kill people every day.”

People often sticks notes in the package with their, and stickers, and other stuff. We save it all in a correspondence a...
12/18/2024

People often sticks notes in the package with their, and stickers, and other stuff. We save it all in a correspondence and ephemera collection. That’s one of the collections you could get into with a Barnard Library Research Award. Info about that in tr.ee.

Pile of zines from Almudena Marin Cobos’s Elementary Spanish II classes. They had us at Vermicelli.
12/10/2024

Pile of zines from Almudena Marin Cobos’s Elementary Spanish II classes. They had us at Vermicelli.

Today in a super sweet and adorable zine by .depodesta made for professor Alex Watson’s Flash Forms class last year
12/06/2024

Today in a super sweet and adorable zine by .depodesta made for professor Alex Watson’s Flash Forms class last year

Today in Monster Truck Maniac!!! By a beloved fellow zine librarian , who contains multitudes
12/06/2024

Today in Monster Truck Maniac!!! By a beloved fellow zine librarian , who contains multitudes

“The zine library and its librarians have a special way of making everyone feel warmly included.“Sweet Bwog post by Mary...
11/23/2024

“The zine library and its librarians have a special way of making everyone feel warmly included.“

Sweet Bwog post by Mary Cook about our zine making event on Tuesday. Link in tree.

Today in Spider-Man Is Black and Trans (and Me) by , which we purchased at the this spring.
11/15/2024

Today in Spider-Man Is Black and Trans (and Me) by , which we purchased at the this spring.

Zine librarians Zoe Foshee BC ‘27 & Jenna Freedman will introduce zines and zine making concepts for students making zin...
11/15/2024

Zine librarians Zoe Foshee BC ‘27 & Jenna Freedman will introduce zines and zine making concepts for students making zines for classes, clubs, events, pleasure and/or liberation. More experienced zine makers can attend and skip the how-to and get right to zine making, using supplies from the Collage Corner and Zine Cart.

Head over to our website to register so we have a sense of how many of you lovely zinesters will be attending!

Today in : three zines by Decolonize Math Education Infinite Growth: Group Healing Practices for OrganizersDecolonizat...
11/01/2024

Today in : three zines by

Decolonize Math Education
Infinite Growth: Group Healing Practices for Organizers
Decolonization: Choose Your Own Adventure

Fun fact: Ender is a SEAS alum whom we met at the .

Happy Halloween! We have two (2) remaining non-halal, non-kosher, non-vegan eyeballs (but otherwise edible) in the zine ...
10/31/2024

Happy Halloween! We have two (2) remaining non-halal, non-kosher, non-vegan eyeballs (but otherwise edible) in the zine library. And some Oreos left by the !

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Our May Newsletter is here!💕 Including some info on our zine kits 👀 If you haven’t heard you can now check out a kit of zine making supplies at the MLC circulation desk! Read with the link in bio to learn more~

unboxing video by claudia acosta, a bzl library staff, of early aughts zine ephemera donated to our archive by the effervescent keight bergmann! feat. well-loved women’s guerilla history project posters, pink screen print t-shirt art by marissa falco, and a few more bubble-wrapped goodies 🍵 ☕️ thank you so much keight!

The Zine Library is open!!!

Zine Tech Claudia opens a massive haul of zine goodies in this lightning round! Watch below to see all the amazing new works we received. Video filmed and captioned by Eva-Quenby Johnson.

New Zine Unenveloping! Featuring Jenna vs. Scotch Tape. Today we opened "Forever." Video filmed and captioned by Eva-Quenby Johnson.

Zine Tech Claudia unenvelopes new zines, one of which is in a beautiful purple envelope! Featured zines include "Self Portrait: A Nonbinary Person's Reflection on Identity," "Theranos" by Julia Gfrofer, and "Analog Self-Publishing: Step by Step instructions to make Your Own Book without a Computer." Video filmed and captioned by Eva-Quenby Johnson.

New Zine Unenveloping all the way from Los Angeles! Thank you to Inchas Press for this copy of Fruits of Venice. Dreaming of sweet sunshine and palm trees as New York gets more snow today. Stay warm all! Video filmed and captioned by Eva-Quenby Johnson.

Still trying to figure out how to say unenveloping. Please give us tips. Today we opened “How to talk to kids about COVID-19” by Shira Levitt! 💖 (filmed and captioned by Eva Quenby-Johnson)

New segment alert! Barnard Zine Library will begin posting clips of unenveloping new zines that we have the privilege of receiving ✨ This clip showcases “WANT TO DO LIST 202i” sent to us by Yuko and opened by Zine Librarian Jenna :) Video filmed and captioned by Eva-Quenby Johnson.

Zine unenveloping! Celebrating Cross-cultural Perspectives by @alynaomie #zines #quaranzines #zinelibraries

Keanu Reeves coloring book? Have you ever heard of something so peculiar and AMAZING??!! We were gifted this coloring book zine from the creator herself, Mimi Thi Nguyen, an associate professor of gender and women’s studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Mimi is also the author of various iconic zines such as: Slander and Race Riot. Thanks so much, Mimi! 🥳

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