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ENGL-W3648 Comics, Health, and Embodiment

This is the library research guide that accompanies Rachel Adams's class at Columbia University, spring 2025. The guide was made by Jenna Freedman.

@BarnardZineLibrary

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 (no more seats left)
  • Spanish-language zines at the Barnard Zine Library (date to come)
  • Scholaztic Zine Fair (to be confirmed)

Barnard Zine Club