The Zine Bakery catalog is a public view of a subset of the Zine Bakery dataset. Most zines are currently included, but some metadata fields that are irrelevant to the public, or contain private data (e.g. links to private PDF backups of zines) are not included in this display.
View the Zine Bakery Catalog!
All the public zines and public metadata. Feast!
Zine Bakery: Readerâs View
Only the zines that allow free e-reading, with only the metadata of most interest to folks looking to read zines (e.g. the metadata about printing zines is hidden).
View zines by zine tags, grouped by theme
A way to skim what kinds of topics and formats the collection offers, and see similar themes side-by-side (e.g. all social-justice-related tags and their zines, all zines related to specific identities and experiences.
Popular zine tags
There are currently over one hundred zine tags đ organized into ~10 high-level categories. Here are links to dive into just the zines in a couple interesting areas:
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âTech knowledgesâ includes zines on: AI; coding; critiques of tech; data embodiment, visceralization, physicalization; data science, datasets, metadata; design; digital humanities; feminist tech; generative art; history of tech, communications, media; and/or social media
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âFeminist techâ: zines taking a feminist approach to tech, including friendly tech tutorials that donât bias toward only white U.S. male audiences, feminist uses & critiques of tech
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Better together: zines about community building, collective structures, and solidarity
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Creative building: zines about making, crafting, building generative art, design, and data embodiment
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Learn a thing: zines that are tutorials, tutorial-adjacent, workbooks, or manualsâforms that help you learn something in a particular way. (Note this does not include the many zines in the collection that help you learn in other forms, such as essays, history zines, etc.)
- âdigital humanitiesâ zines
- âdisabled experienceâ and/or âaccessibility, disability justice, embodimentâ zines
- âcomics-formâ zines
- Textual studies: zines related to textual studies & book/media history; history of tech, communications, media
- âGLAM/memory workâ: GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, museums) and other cultural heritage work, including related maintenance, repair, preservation
- Zines about zines: about zine making, collecting, cataloguing, teaching, etc.
- âTeaching & pedagogyâ: zines about teaching, pedagogical theory and/or practice, zines as syllabi, etc.