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Zines

This guide is full of resources for learning about zines, creating them, and using them in assignments and research.

Zine History

Zine history is dependent on what is considered its beginnings. As printing inventions and technologies evolved so did self-publishing. Some prominent zine history markers:
1920s - Harlem Renaissance and publications called “little magazines”
1930s - science fiction zines 
1970s - punk circles as created zines about bands and punk culture
1990s - punk feminist movement Riot grrrl created zines as about part of an activist movement about music and politics

 

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