Dive right into zines written by me, or themed collections of zines by others from the hundreds in the Zine Bakery catalogue! *(Or scroll past, to learn more about the project.)*
The Zine Bakery project is:
collecting zines!
- collecting zines at the intersections of culture, tech, and justice
- 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)
- preservation of private PDF backups of zines (e.g. in expectation of link rot)
- 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!
- public zine catalog interface to a subset of my zine database/metadata
- 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!)
- graphic design of fun zine- & zine-bakery-related art for stickers, etc.
exploring zines! via research, data physicalization, and more
- data physicalization projects applying makerspace methods to the zine dataset
- research blogging posts on zine research, collecting, making, & data viz
- web dev & Python coding supporting the above (e.g. digital zine quilt)
- tutorials documenting the above scholarship, so others can learn from & build on it
creating zines!
- authoring zines myself and sharing them for free download, duplication, and redistribution
