Every month we highlight a different theme that can be studied or enjoyed using our zine library. This month's WGaZfT is Audre Lorde. 1990s (and later) zinesters love(d) to quote her.
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The WGaZfT theme for August 2024 is...congresses! Yep, that's a little weird. We'll explain.
A zine library staff member curated a display of zines critical of the Barnard and Columbia with the aim of creating a conversation around the privileges we have as members of an elite institution and our obligation to recognize how we can be complicit in systems of oppression locally and abroad.
Each month we draw attention to the depth and breadth of our zine collections by highlighting a topic represented in our holdings. The theme for June 2024 is… law* OR legal*.
Each month we draw attention to the depth and breadth of our zine collections by highlighting a topic represented in our holdings. The theme for May 2024 is… occupy < zines occup* location:Barnard subject(genre):zines >
Congratulations to our three winners: Frankie Pokorny, Mila Turner, and Dev Montanez!
Each month we draw attention to the depth and breadth of our zine collections by highlighting a topic represented in our holdings. The theme for April 2024 is…< zines AND haggad* >.
We're honored to be a co-sponsor of the Black Zine Fair, to be held at Powerhouse Arts in Brooklyn on May 11, 2024 from 11-6pm.
We're celebrating twenty years of zines at Barnard with a small gathering of current and former staff, faculty who teach with zines, and friends of the zine library.
Each month we draw attention to the depth and breadth of our zine collections by highlighting a topic represented in our holdings. The theme for March2024 is…< zines AND (filipin* OR phillipines) >
This month we're highlighting zine holdings centered around protest – <zines AND protest* > (and limiting the search to zines held at Barnard). As of January 25, 2024, that search yielded 142 results.
In this series, we’ll make syllabi in the form of zines for the classes of our dreams! We’ll reimagine how to construct a syllabus for self-directed continuing education. The four-part series will culminate at the end of the semester with Barnard’s Scholaztic Zine Fair, where we’ll have a chance to share zines with friends and other Barnard students!
Each month we draw attention to the depth and breadth of our zine collections by highlighting a topic represented in our holdings. The theme for January 2024 is…HAIR.
In 2023 (as of December 4) we circulated 394 zines. Many of them were checked out by zine library staff for use in classes, or a loan to the Brooklyn Museum for their little exhibit Copy Machine Manifestos, but 131 were lent to Barnumbia affiliates for research or pleasure reading.
Apply now for a $3000 award to support your research at the archives, library, or zine library.
Claudia Acosta has co-curated with Scout Lee an exhibit called “Weird Rings True” : Cartoon Marginalia Resurfaced from the Abc No Rio Zine Library. The exhibit opens Saturday 12/2 6-9 PM and is viewable through the 17th during gallery hours Fridays 4-7 and Saturdays and Sundays 2-6 at Project Reach 39 Eldridge Street, 4th Fl., New York, NY 10002.
We are elated to announce that the NYC Feminist Zinefest will be return to Barnard College's James Room on April 6, 2024. Tabling applications are due on January 1st, 2024.
This month we're highlighting zine holdings created by non-binary authors– if you want to be Boolean about it < zines AND (nonbinary OR genderqueer OR noncomforming OR non-conforming) > (and limiting the search to zines held at Barnard). As of November 14, 2023, that search yielded 160 results.