WHAT’S A ZINE? Zines are self-published, often handmade publications
of various kinds. They can look like and be about anything at all.
Mine have been small books of poetry, first-person narratives,
collections of interviews, and other more eccentric stuff. OH WELL
THEN TELL US MORE ABOUT YOUR ZINES, KATIE. I sell them at zine fairs
and on my etsy shop, and some of them are carried by zine distributors
such as Parcell Press and Microcosm, and independent bookstores
including Philadelphia’s Wooden Shoe; New York City’s feminist
bookstore, Bluestockings; and Sticky Institute in Melbourne,
Australia. My zines also live in the collections of public and
academic libraries, including Barnard College’s zine library, the
Multnomah County Library in Portland, Oregon, The Sallie Bingham
Center for Women’s History and Culture at Duke University, and the
Browne Popular Culture Library at Bowling Green State University. MY
ZINES ARE ART, SORT OF! Some of them have been included in shows at
d21 Kunstraum in Leipzig, Germany; Space 538 in Portland, Maine; and
“Dark Matter,” a 2004 exhibit of underground art at the Baltimore
Museum of Art. My zine The La-La Theory was featured in the art book
Fanzines by Teal Triggs (Chronicle, 2010). In 2010 I did a zine
writer’s residency at the Anchor Archive in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It
was pretty there. back home
