Information about the Zine Bakery project collecting & doing fun research things with zines at the intersections of culture, tech, & justice https://amandavisconti.github.io/zinebakery// I just published a 47-page standard-size, full-color zineication, read censored history, thwart fascists, documenting the National Park Service’s “Life Under Slavery at George Washington House” Exhibit—removed by the government January 22, 2026 in an act of censorship. For more info or to read, download, print the zine (all free!), visit... Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0500 https://amandavisconti.github.io/zinebakery//2026-01-27-read-censored-no1-zine/ https://amandavisconti.github.io/zinebakery//2026-01-27-read-censored-no1-zine/ I just published a 20-page standard-size, full-color zine, Absolute Units of Letterpress: Plus Rad Measurement Facts, co-created by me (Amanda Wyatt Visconti) and Shane Lin. “Absolute Unit”: An entity exceedingly pleasing to the eye & soul by virtue of unusual-for-its-kind square or stocky dimensions. Absolute Units are exemplars of: stability!... Sun, 30 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0500 https://amandavisconti.github.io/zinebakery//2025-11-30-bakeshop-absolute-units-zine/ https://amandavisconti.github.io/zinebakery//2025-11-30-bakeshop-absolute-units-zine/ I’m tabling at the third annual Charlottesville Zine Fest this Saturday, October 18th, sharing free print zines and representing both UVA Library and Virginia Book Arts. Here are some of the graphics I made for my table, which will have a shimmery rainbow tablecloth (of course). Tue, 14 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0400 https://amandavisconti.github.io/zinebakery//2025-10-14-cville-zine-fest-2025/ https://amandavisconti.github.io/zinebakery//2025-10-14-cville-zine-fest-2025/ I received a UVA Library Culture, Engagement, & Community grant to expand the capacity of the Zine Bakery @ Scholars’ Lab public distro! Thanks to the grant program, I’ve got some funding to test out a contraption that makes assembling zines quicker (vs. my tired hands—I’ve folded and stapled over... Mon, 29 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0400 https://amandavisconti.github.io/zinebakery//2025-09-29-cec-grant-zb-at-slab/ https://amandavisconti.github.io/zinebakery//2025-09-29-cec-grant-zb-at-slab/ zines you can print for free Printing zines to read yourself I use “free zine” to mean zines you don’t need to pay to access in some way—read online, print copies of to read on paper, and/or get a pre-printed copy of from someone else. Unfortunately, printing is not always... Mon, 01 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0400 https://amandavisconti.github.io/zinebakery//2025-09-01-getting-zines/ https://amandavisconti.github.io/zinebakery//2025-09-01-getting-zines/ This week, I published a 32-page standard-size, full-color zine, co-created with: Alex Wingate; Nicole Infanta Keller & Cait Coker; & the SHARP Queer Book History 2025 Bibliography Team: Queer Book History! Book History is the study of the book as physical artifact (beyond just the written “content” it carries) made,... Sat, 23 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0400 https://amandavisconti.github.io/zinebakery//2025-08-23-bakeshop-zine-queer-book-history/ https://amandavisconti.github.io/zinebakery//2025-08-23-bakeshop-zine-queer-book-history/ I’ve got a conference poster at DH 2025 this week, and since I needed to attend remotely and things being what they are, I went all out on making the design Very Extra and much in the spirit of this site’s design :) Enjoy! (A full PDF version, in case... Wed, 16 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0400 https://amandavisconti.github.io/zinebakery//2025-07-16-dh-2025-zinebakery-poster/ https://amandavisconti.github.io/zinebakery//2025-07-16-dh-2025-zinebakery-poster/ Q. Do you know of zine templates that let you import your zine content and then print it properly? A. I’ve run into this a lot, partly bc some printers have various hidden amounts of white space they’ll require to allow for where they grip the paper, even if you... Fri, 02 May 2025 00:00:00 -0400 https://amandavisconti.github.io/zinebakery//2025-05-02-on-the-edge-printing-zine-margins/ https://amandavisconti.github.io/zinebakery//2025-05-02-on-the-edge-printing-zine-margins/ I’m presenting 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! I’m on Bluesky... Thu, 03 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0400 https://amandavisconti.github.io/zinebakery//2025-04-03-global-dh-zines-talk-sources/ https://amandavisconti.github.io/zinebakery//2025-04-03-global-dh-zines-talk-sources/ The following is an accepted proposal I submitted to the international Feminist Media Histories journal special issue on “Craftwork within the Digital”, guest-edited by Christina Corfield and Whitney Trettien. In addition to giving a preview of my piece, which focuses on zines as primary method and will include the publication... Tue, 25 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0400 https://amandavisconti.github.io/zinebakery//2025-03-25-feminist-media-history-digital-craft/ https://amandavisconti.github.io/zinebakery//2025-03-25-feminist-media-history-digital-craft/ I’ve added a new page (reachable under Distros > Redistro), where I’ll host select zines and related resources by other people. When a zine/resource has a strong social justice and/or tech+culture focus (or otherwise fits my interest), I’ll provide web hosting to help with redistribution. These tend to be tutorials... Tue, 04 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0500 https://amandavisconti.github.io/zinebakery//2025-02-04-redistro/ https://amandavisconti.github.io/zinebakery//2025-02-04-redistro/ Full title: 'DIY Web Archiving' - A 22-page standard-size, full-color zine co-created by Quinn Daedel, Tessa Walsh, Anna Kijas, Ilya Kremer, and Amanda Wyatt Visconti. CC BY-NC. DIY Web Archiving shows you why everyone should participate in preserving the things on the web they care about, and how anyone can do so (no special expertise required!).... Fri, 24 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0500 https://amandavisconti.github.io/zinebakery//2025-01-24-homemade-zine-diywebarchiving/ https://amandavisconti.github.io/zinebakery//2025-01-24-homemade-zine-diywebarchiving/ Full title: 'Yes, Virginia, there is ICE here too' - “Yes, Virginia, there is ICE here too” (Zine Bakery Biscuit #2) is an 8-page, black-and-white minizine explaining how immigration rules and rhetoric impact Charottesville folks even though we’re in the middle of a state, far away from federal borders—and resources for supporting us and our neighbors vs. racist rhetoric and... Sun, 19 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0500 https://amandavisconti.github.io/zinebakery//2025-01-19-homemade-zine-yesvirginiathereisiceheretoo/ https://amandavisconti.github.io/zinebakery//2025-01-19-homemade-zine-yesvirginiathereisiceheretoo/ Full title: 'The Good Pets of UVA Library' - The Good Pets of UVA Library is a whopping 36-page standard-size, full-color zine created by me (Amanda Wyatt Visconti) with text and photos of pets contributed by UVA Library colleagues: Arin Bennett Leigh Rockey Will Rourk Shane Lin Rose Oliveira-Abbey Brenda Gunn Sherry Lake Sherri Brown Zoe Spellman Holly Robertson... Tue, 07 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0500 https://amandavisconti.github.io/zinebakery//2025-01-07-homemade-zine-thegoodpetsofuvalibrary/ https://amandavisconti.github.io/zinebakery//2025-01-07-homemade-zine-thegoodpetsofuvalibrary/ My research talk on my Zine Bakery project was accepted to Global DH 2025 - My presentation on “Zine Bakery: borderless DH research, methods training, and scholarly communication via zines” was accepted to the Spring Global DH 2025 conference. My talk abstract is below: People often picture zines thinking of their 20th-century origin as collaged, xeroxed, free paper booklets about subcultures, social justice, marginalized experiences.... Wed, 27 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0500 https://amandavisconti.github.io/zinebakery//2024-11-27-global-dh-conference-presentation/ https://amandavisconti.github.io/zinebakery//2024-11-27-global-dh-conference-presentation/ Full title: 'Look!! Here's your unusual letterpress blocks invitation to joy: a collage mini-zine' - I created and published a new zine: Look!! Here’s your unusual letterpress blocks invitation to joy: a collage mini-zine. It’s an 8-page, quarter-size collage zine of odd letterpress blocks (illustrations/text mounted on a block of wood, to be inked & pressed into paper using a printing press) that I encountered... Tue, 26 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0500 https://amandavisconti.github.io/zinebakery//2024-11-26-homemade-zine-lookheresyourunusualletterpressblocksinvitationtojoy/ https://amandavisconti.github.io/zinebakery//2024-11-26-homemade-zine-lookheresyourunusualletterpressblocksinvitationtojoy/ We now offer print copies of Julia Evans' Wizard Zines on our public zine rack. - Zine author Julia Evans has generously granted us a license to reprint and distribute print copies of all her zines for free from our public Scholars’ Lab zine rack distro! A huge thanks to Evans, whose very friendly, fun tech tutorial zines got Visconti started collecting, and whose work we... Fri, 22 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0500 https://amandavisconti.github.io/zinebakery//2024-11-22-julia-evans-wizard-zines-thanks/ https://amandavisconti.github.io/zinebakery//2024-11-22-julia-evans-wizard-zines-thanks/ #DHmakes Methodz Zines #1 is part of series zine-ifying public maker talks I've organized. - I co-created a zine with Sam Blickhan: Speedweve for Mending (#DHMakes Methodz Zines #1). It’s a 16-page standard-size, full-color zine that introduces you to speedweve-style mending looms for fixing small holes in socks and other fabric: What are they? What’s cool about them? Why might you want to try one?... Wed, 30 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0400 https://amandavisconti.github.io/zinebakery//2024-10-30-bakeshop-zine-speedweve-for-mending-dhmakes-methodz-1/ https://amandavisconti.github.io/zinebakery//2024-10-30-bakeshop-zine-speedweve-for-mending-dhmakes-methodz-1/ Practical design plans to make a better Zine Bakery zine display for Scholars' Lab's public space. - This is a very practical post describing how I’m trying to improve a public space zine display! My current zine rack in the Scholars’ Lab Common Room currently looks okay—the metal rack allows you to see there are zines hanging on the other two of its three sides, and the... Fri, 18 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0400 https://amandavisconti.github.io/zinebakery//2024-10-18-zine-rack-design/ https://amandavisconti.github.io/zinebakery//2024-10-18-zine-rack-design/ Thinking through how to indicate the level of effort, precision, reading experience to expect from a zine I make, without using terms suggesting these are on some linear scale. - I’d like to develop some kind of scale to show what a reader can expect from a zine I author, in terms of their reading experience and perception of the effort and care that went into a given zine. For example, was it hand-lettered in one sitting with a few... Mon, 23 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0400 https://amandavisconti.github.io/zinebakery//2024-09-23-zine-making-effort-rating/ https://amandavisconti.github.io/zinebakery//2024-09-23-zine-making-effort-rating/