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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.

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Welcome to the Barnard Zine Library!

The Barnard Zine Library is part of the Barnard Library and Academic Information Services (BLAIS) in the Milstein Center for Teaching and Learning at Barnard College, Columbia University. The zines are described in the library catalog we share with Columbia University Libraries (CUL), CLIO.

Barnard's zines reflect the Barnard College student population. We have zines by women, nonbinary people, and trans men, with a collection emphasis on zines by women of color and a newer effort to acquire more zines by trans women. We collect zines on feminism and femme identity by people of all genders. The zines are personal and political publications on activism, anarchism, body image, gender, parenting, queer community, riot grrrl, sexual assault, trans feminisms, and other topics. Our zines are at the lower end of the production level scale and typically cost $10 or less, with most of them in the $1-$5 range.

Follow the zine library on Instagram @barnardzinelibrary photo of a bear in sunglasses, a crown, and pleather jacket holding scissors and "a rly cool zine"

We have a zine club that makes a compilation zine every semester. The zine club been led by BIPOC and other students continuously since 2010.

 

Resources and Events

drawing of two bears, one holding a zineZine Library Resources

Zine Library Events

  • Fridays 1-4, 203 Milstein Center: Drop in hours
  • DIY Reusable Menstrual Pads (past)
  • Spanish-language zines at the Barnard Zine Library (date to come)
  • Scholaztic Zine Fair (to be confirmed)

Barnard Zine Club