Did you know that Barnard has a Zine library? BCRW Advisory Board Member Jenna Freedman, the Director of Reference and Instruction Services at Barnard, posted a few months ago about new zines the library picked up at the Feminist Zine Fest.
One new acquisition from 2008 includes a definition of feminism from Kathleen Hanna:
“…I think of feminism as a radical movement that’s bent on changing the nature of the whole world, like destroying capitalism, and hierarchies of all kinds like racism, homophobia, classism, like imperialism, like all ‘isms,’ and it’s gotta be something that is on a philosophical and on an action level at the same time and those two things really have to meet up in a real way…”
Get more history of feminist archiving in Make Your Own History: Documenting Feminism and Queer Activism in the 21st Century with a contribution by Jenna.
What are your favorite feminist zines?