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URBS-UN3251 Nation, Cities, and Inequality

This guide supports the zine-making assignment in Noah Allison's Nation, Cities, and Inequality class at Barnard College, spring 2025. The guide was made by zine librarian Jenna Freedman.

Read and Discuss

photo of two cats sniffing at a zineZine sampler! Read/skim a zine for two minutes & repeat 3x. 

[Content: curse words, sexuality, nudity, trauma]

Discuss in a group, using these guiding questions, or your own

  • What does the zine say about its creator--directly or indirectly?
  • How is the zine different from a research paper, digital project, Instagram reel, etc.?

  • Thinking of the Piepmeier reading, how do the zine's appearance and content work with or against each other?

Zines Are

Nijsten, Nina. Scissors & Chainsaws No. 2 : Diary Comic Zine Made in July 2020 During International Zine Month. Gent, Belgium: Nina Nijsten, 2020.