March 2: Discussion
Core
- Lisa Gitelman, “Near Print and Beyond Paper: Knowing by *.pdf” from Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents (2014), file on Canvas
- Zine Librarians’ Code of Ethics (2015), external website, and also browse the Queer Zine Archive Project blog and its zine archive
- Jolie Braun, “‘Your Zine Changed My Life’: The Impact and Legacy of Zines in Sassy Magazine” (2020), resource via library
Penumbra
- Catherine Coker, “The Margins of Print? Fan Fiction as Book History” (2017), external website
- Amy Burek, Emily Alden Foster, Sarah Fox, and Daniela K. Rosner, “Feminist Hackerspaces: Hacking Culture, Not Devices (the zine!)” (2017), external website
- Aaron Kashtan, “Introduction: Comics, Materiality, and the Future of the Book” from Between Pen and Pixel: Comics, Materiality, and the Book of the Future (2018), resource via library
- Alexis Easley, “Scrapbooks and Women’s Leisure Reading Practices, 1825–60” (2019), external website
- Jolie Braun, “1990s Zine Distribution and Understanding the Work of Zine Distros through Their Catalogs” (2024), resource via library
- Jessica Gray and Bethany E. Qualls, “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Commonplace Book” (2024), external website
- Crow Song Zine from the Disability & Access Collective (2024), external link
Just for Fun
- Amanda Wyatt Visconti, “Look!! Here’s your unusual letterpress blocks invitation to joy: a collage mini-zine” (2024), external website
March 6: Zines Lab
Lab Prep: If there are any materials you’d like to include in your zine page, bring them with you. These might be magazines/newspapers/other print materials for cut-up/remediation, writing, art, etc.