当Barnard杂志的图书管理员 珍娜·弗里德曼 首先提出 杂志库 in 2003, she wanted to open the door to storytelling unfettered by the usual rules of publishing. 杂志 — short for fanzines and magazines — are self-published booklets of texts and images, 通常是用复印机制作的.
“I’d only been [at the library for] about five months when I presented the proposal,弗里德曼说. “杂志 were on the shelves a year later.”
Barnard’s 杂志库 marked its 20th anniversary on April 5. 第二天，它举办了 纽约市女权主义者论坛. 这个流行的, non-Barnard affiliate annual event draws hundreds of local zine makers to display, 出售, 并为他们的出版物举办研讨会. This year’s event included more than 60 zine makers and featured a vast range of perspectives representing myriad identities.
报名的人中有 正义旅人出版社, a micro-press that publishes short form and ephemeral zines, 小册子, and booklets that engage do-it-yourself, 黑人女权主义, 以及废奴主义思想. 另一个是 的驾驶室, dedicated to an intersectional approach to social justice and providing space and resources for marginalized individuals to create art and build community.
“It’s a great time for people to come together, 分享他们的工作, 发现新的创造者,弗里德曼说, 谁是活动的组织者.
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2010年，弗里德曼发起了 Barnard Zine Collective, an unofficial organization that has thrived at the College. As a zine maker, she observed the rise of the feminist-focused电子杂志 movement and wanted to give Barnard students and faculty access to this rich resource for learning about different perspectives.
“What I hoped it would accomplish was bringing a wider range of voices to the shelf and legitimizing what [zine artists] have to say by putting their voices on the shelf,弗里德曼说. “Zine makers tend to hold minoritized identities. These are people who don’t always have access to an Ivy League education.”
以上: Barnard Theatre Department administrator Kate Purdum ’22 created the zine Surrender the Jello: A Manifesto for Dance Criticism Among Other Things in 2021.
杂志 have been a medium for self-expression for generations. Freedman recalls them being used as an instrument of the punk movement during the 1970s and ’80s. “When girls and women started making them, first they were angry,弗里德曼说. “The early feminist zines pushed back against the male-dominated music scene with messages like, ‘I’m not with the band; I am the band.’”
“When women started making the zines, they also got more personal,弗里德曼说.
Tomorrow’s Pages: What’s Next for 杂志 at Barnard
Barnard’s 杂志库 holds frequent zine-making sessions, but most of the College’s collection represents writers outside the student and faculty communities. When Freedman wrote her initial proposal, she expected to have to purchase all of the zines for the collection. However, she quickly began to receive zine donations from people’s personal collections.
The library and its reputation have since grown — it now is home to 超过14,000份杂志.
“People make zines because there’s a greater intimacy, 更像是一对一的交流,弗里德曼说. “My favorite zines are the ones that have content you wouldn’t want to put online. 所以，我很欣赏你的脆弱. 我很欣赏你的亲密.”
Freedman’s focus for the 杂志库’s next chapter is to have more students and faculty leverage its vast collection for research. “We have a lot of external people doing research with zines, but not as many internally.”
To that end, she started a monthly feature called “我们有专门的杂志,” in which the library shares a topic that zines can speak to. Reflecting on the 20-year anniversary, Freedman hopes that — long after her time at Barnard — the 杂志库 collection will continue to grow and bring marginalized perspectives to the Barnard 图书馆 stacks.
“As much as I take joy and pride in what I’ve done,弗里德曼说, “I’m also excited to see what my successor will do.”
