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.
Barnard Zine Library News
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 May 2024 is… occupy < zines occup* location:Barnard subject(genre):zines >
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.
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.
The Barnard Zine Library lent four zines to the Brooklyn Museum for its upcoming exhibit Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines.
Senior Nayla Delgado ’24 celebrates Hispanic identity with a collection that centers Hispanic, Latinx, and Spanish-speaking voices.
The Barnard Zine Library won a $30,000 award from the Chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
We've Got a Zine for That! Each month we highlight zines with a topical theme. The theme for June 2023 is Police & Policing!
We've Got a Zine for That! Each month we highlight zines with a topical theme. The theme for May 2023 is self-care zines! We hope you'll take the zines' message into consideration as you work your way through final papers and exams.
We've Got a Zine for That! Each month we highlight zines with a topical theme. The theme for April 2023 is Drag Zines!
Welcome to a new feature: We've Got a Zine for That! Each month we'll highlight zines with a topical theme. Theme for March 2023 is BIPOC Punk Zines!