I presented about the Zine Bakery this spring at the Global Digital Humanities conference, and as an invited speaker at the Cal Poly Humboldt Library’s Innovation Summit. Below are some links that had to fly by on my screen, so folks have more time to peruse them! (This adds some info from my previous resource-post about just my Global DH 2025 talk.)

I’m on Bluesky at LiteratureGeek.bsky.social if you want to chat there!

Zines used as decoration on cover slide

The zines pictured in the slide above are:

• “Disobedient Electronics: Protest” by Garnet Hertz
• “Kult of the Cyber Witch #00” by Kult of the Cyber Witch
• “Window to Another Realm” (Mala Leche #3) by Sri Kodakalla and Ramona Martinez, co-directors of Bad Milk Press; featuring 18 creatives: Candice Agnello, Brigid Bartels, Erika Chu, Dana Espinosa, Kristen Finn, Sophie Gibson, Meesha Goldberg, Laura Lee Gulledge, Makaela-Ann Johansen, Margaret Kim, Sri Kodakalla, Zoe Krylova, Ramona Martinez, Rochelle Sumner & The Bonnet Maker Project, Julia Travers, Taylor Trumble, Jess Walters, and Abigail Wilson
• “Growing Up Biracial in America” by Ashley Garcia
• “Linux debugging tools you’ll love” by Julia Evans
• “Flowerings: a framework for mutual growth” by Furious Flower Poetry Center and JMU Libraries
• “I Accuse This Liberal University of Terror and Violence” by Fredy Perlman; printed by Fredy Perlman and Lorraine Perlman, Radical Education Project
• “Trans People Exist in the Future Art: a zine of art and poetry celebrating trans resilience” by Kemi Alabi, Micah Bazant, Kah Yanghi, Art Twink
• "”Appalachian resistance histories” by The Holler Network
• “The People and The Library” by Ben Remsen, Kristin Campbell, Gregory Benjamin, Katrina Clark, Betty Beaufort, Kate Goodman, Emily Drabinsk, Erik Ruin

Key parts of Zine Bakery

• Homepage & what is the project? as well as links to subsets of the zines, such as all the social justice zines that are free to print and share
• Zines I’ve made & co-authored
• The public catalog
• Zine cover quilt viz
• Physical distro at the Scholars’ Lab
• Redistro/publication and hosting for zines

Where to find zines:

• ZineBakery.com
• Queer Zine Archive (archive.qzap.org)
• Barnard Zine Library (zines.barnard.edu)
• Social media + #zine(s)
• Internet Archive + “zine” search
• Random tables in libraries, coffee shops, communal spaces…

Citations & further reading

Fox, Violet B. et al. “The zine librarians code of ethics” web resource, zine. November 2015. zinelibraries.info/code-of-ethics-1115-web-version.

Freedman, Jenna, et al. Zine Union Catalogue web resource. zinecat.org.

Nemergut, Nicole Acosta. Teaching with Zines zine. 2018. github.com/zinecat/zinecat.org/blob/master/Documents/Teaching%20with%20Zines%20-%20Acosta.pdf.

Sahagian, Jacqui. “Zine-making as Critical DH Pedagogy”. Scholars’ Lab blog post, January 14, 2022. scholarslab.org/blog/workshop-zine-translation.

Stevens, Amanda, et al. Zine Subject Thesaurus web resource. anchorarchive.org/subject-thesaurus.

Visconti, Amanda Wyatt. “Book Adjacent: Database & Makerspace Prototypes Repairing Book-Centric Citation Bias in DH Working Libraries”. DH+Lib special issue, Spring 2024. dhandlib.org/?p=154321.

—. Zine Bakery. ZineBakery.com. Project’s research blogging includes:

• “Metadata for Zine Collecting”. April 2024. zinebakery.com/2024-04-10-zine-collecting-metadata
• “Zine Bakery: research roadmap”. August 2024. zinebakery.com/2024/08/18/zine-bakery-research-roadmap
• “Zine Bakery: topical zine collections”. August 2024. zinebakery.com/2024-08-16-zine-bakery-topical-collections/

—; Quinn Dombrowski; Claudia Berger. “#DHmakes: Baking Craft into DH Discourse”. Korean Journal of Digital Humanities, 1(1), 73-108, 2024. accesson.kr/kjdh/v.1/1/73/43507.

Walters, Jess. “Zines” (Walters’ zines & work, including zines for disability jistice community, learning, advocacy). jesswaltersart.com/zines