Zine Bakery

Dive right into zines written by me (including me+coauthors), or use the buttons below link to themed subsets of zines by other folks, from 100s in the Zine Bakery catalogue. Scroll past to learn more about the Zine Bakery project.

social justice zines (all free to print+share) zines on how to act, advocate, resist digital archiving, safety, privacy for activists tech knowledges feminist tech digital humanities better together: community & collective solidarity better futures: social justice zines about zines creative making & crafting teaching & pedagogy libraries, archives, cultural memory work learn a thing "homemade" zines (zines by Amanda!)

The Zine Bakery project is:

• collecting zines!

1. collecting zines at the intersections of culture, tech, and justice
2. dataset building: creating & maintaining a relational database with extensive descriptive, evaluative, theme, related resource metadata for each zine (no zine rehosting; always link to creator's site instead)
3. preservation of private PDF backups of zines (e.g. in expectation of link rot)
4. zine collecting best practices: amplification of the admirable Zine Librarian Code of Ethics, via a collecting rationale and charter, and preservation and distribution practices influenced by that code

• amplifying zines!

1. public zine catalog interface to a subset of my zine database/metadata
2. physical zine distro: distributing a subset of the zines via the Scholars' Lab public space (Zine Bakery @ Scholars' Lab) including all Julia Evans' fantastic tech tutorial zines (huge thanks to Evans!)
3. zine redistro hosting (redistribution): web hosting for select zines by other zine authors who don't host their zines online themselves
4. graphic design of fun zine- & zine-bakery-related art for stickers, etc.

• exploring zines! via research, data physicalization, and more

1. data physicalization projects applying makerspace methods to the zine dataset
2. research blogging posts on zine research, collecting, making, & data viz
3. web dev & Python coding supporting the above (e.g. digital zine quilt)
4. tutorials documenting the above scholarship, so others can learn from & build on it

• creating zines!

1. authoring zines myself & co-authoring zines with others; and sharing them for free download, duplication, and redistribution

Help others find social justice zines

A large subset of the zines I catalogue are related to social justice topics, and many of those SJ zines are free to print and share.

You can click to print a sheet of cards/stickers (generously designed by oneironaut17.bsky.social!) to share with your friends, community, or just leave piles in public places for others to find. (Two options: single graphic JPG; PDF of multiple images you can cut into cards.)