We're drawing attention to our Spanish language zines to celebrate the beautiful partnership we have with Spanish and Latin American Cultures professor Almudena Marin Cobos. Dra Marin Cobos has her Elementary Spanish II students read zines in Spanish and make zines as a final project. The zines her students make are creative, funny, and show the creators' individual interests and talents--and a vernacular understanding of the language.

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photo of an open zine with a watercolor painting of a humanoid rabbit person on the left and the text of a poem on the right
A page from the fourth issue “Disfraces” Nata Caviares’ 2021 collection “Niñas Fuimos.” https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/16057835

The zines come from Chile, Spain, Ecuador, Mexico, Colombia, Germany (¯\_(ツ)_/¯), Uruguay, Puerto Rico, and mainland United States. The earliest of them is from 2001. Among our favorites are zines from Hambre, a lesbian editorial collective out of Chile that publishes zines from across Latin America. Some of the members have even visited the Barnard Zine Library.