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Zines and Zine Making for LIA, Summer 2022

This guide accompanies zine librarian Jenna Freedman's zine library section of the Young Women's Leadership Initiative pre-baccalaureate program, coordinated by Lila Livingston for Barnard College's Athena Center, executive directed by Umbreen Bhatti.

Stolen Sharpie Revolution Raffle

Read and Discuss

What Zines Are Like

Discuss the zines you read at the end of class last week.

[Content: curse words, sexuality, nudity, violence, things you may disagree with]

Butler's Warning : Our Health in a Changing Climate by Alekhya Maram BC '25
Passive Voice Is for Cowards : A Life-and-Death Grammar Lesson by Sarah Mirk
Who Is Fit for Motherhood? : Why Abortion Is Not the Only Reproductive Right by Lauren Jade Martin

In breakout group discuss for 15 minutes

Did one or more of the zines have an impact on you? On the creator?
How do the zines demonstrate leadership and/or action?
How do the zine images contribute to or contradict its overall message?

Share responses on the Padlet for 10 minutes

Zines Are

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