Barnard Zine Library News

Zine Associate Nayla Delgado (BC'24) introduces the Spanish Zine Abstracting Project.

This week we added zines about questionable Tinder profile pics, returning to your suburban hometown, surviving rape but never being able to forget it, a former teen mom's relationship with her daughter's father, and hard breakups.

This week we added zines about DIY zine making, tech: you do want FRIES with that, punk life, thoughts on zine making ten years in, Stone Sour fandom, ants, music, an LA teenhood with boys, food and family, and the history of a radical choir including its performances at the WTO protests.

This week we added zines about the 1968 Olympics, quarantined zinesters reviewing zines, growing up queer in the Midwest, Brooklyn trans kids, Black women's relationships with their bodies, a Bengali-American woman's take on her hair, colonialism's impact on a teacher of color, talking to family members with conservative politics, a zine library in Seattle, the history of critical pedagogy in librarianship, moving away from home and coming into one's own, and sex.

This week we added zines about 9/11 and its anti-Muslim aftermath, a day in the life of Edinburghers, finals weeks for a substance abuser during covid, self-perception, cat love, time in a psychiatric hospital, and sustainable fashion, along with art collages, vegan recipes, and illustrated Mountain Goats lyrics.

This week we added zines about ancestors, life in Palestine, migraines, life in Pune, life for women in Lebanon, menopausal vengeance, sneaking books into Palestine, the politics of sex work, good things, and traveling alone while female.

This week we added zines about making art in hard times, court watch, Black women murdered by police, mutual food aid, and racism in Queens, police ineffectiveness and abolition, and a glossary of queer culture terms for teens.

This week we added zines about radical Barnumbia, a retired school librarian, filing for unemployment in pandemic times, an AFAB GenXer remembering expecting to grow up to be a man, translations of Ntozake Shange's poems, the program accompanying a Barnard alum's dance installation, quarantine times in Salt Lake City, frustrations with people who don't mask/vax, exercising for health rather than beauty, and coping with the long term impacts of rape.

Activists, including zine makers, took over Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan in September 2011 to draw attention to economic and other injustices.

This week we added zines about South Asian punks in Switzerland, pandemic life for a single mom in Berkeley homeschooling her kid and enduring a breakup, and a Brooklyn desi DJ processing abuse.

This week we added zines critiquing capitalism, anti-Black racism, the patriarchy, hierarchy, imperialism, and time as a construct that rules our lives. The zines are pro affinity, relationship building, mutual aid, and care.

This week we added zines about sobriety, savagery, the good and the bad, trauma aware tattooing, sex work, queer friendships, radical Filipines, antiviolence work, and zine reviews.

This week we added zines about the quarantine experience in New Paltz, AFI, My Chemical Romance, teen girl photos, mugs, how to find a therapist, periods, moving bodies from where they died to the funeral home, abortions, and things that are new.