Zine Bakery

Dive right into zines written by me (including me+coauthors), or use the buttons below to explore themed subsets of zines by many folks (including by Mattie Lubchansky, Kim Brillante Knight, Hannah Davis, and Chrissy Ree, to name a few), from 100s of zines collected in the Zine Bakery catalogue. Scroll past to learn more about the larger 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.)