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Collection at Pratt Institute Libraries and general information about Zines
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Cats Hate Cops

This zine is 62 pages of photocopied newspaper articles citing instances of cats attacking police officers. Presented chronologically, the articles span over 150 years of media coverage. Partial citations for each article are provided on the right edge of the zine.

Toward the Queerest Insurrection

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This zine situates queer identity within a larger matrix of oppression and makes a case against assimilation and toward an attack of the normative. 

HomoCats: Join the Resistance

HOMOCATS fight phobias, propose equal rights, combat cultural stereotypes, and challenge social norms.

Philly Fights Alongside Ferguson

This is intended to be a short and incomplete chronology of conflictual activity that took place in Philadelphia following the killing of Micheal Brown in Ferguson, MO.

Mayday 1971, or, How to Lose Street Battles and Alienate People

A critique of the celebrated Mayday 1971 protests in Washington, DC told through original organizing documents, newspaper articles, and first person accounts from participants on the ground.

The East Village Inky

An active and activist stay-at-home mom, Halliday shares birth stories and recipes as well as reviews zines and neighborhood coffeehouses.

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Blockade, Occupy, Strike Back: a collection of tactical knowledge for students and others

The zine is a good primer on street tactics with pieces on forming crews, occupying buildings, security awareness, and tips for participating in militant street protests.

The Library Was

The Library Was sees OOMK reimagining the function, aesthetic and user culture of the library.

3 Positions Against Prison

A brief but thorough statement on prisons and those who would contest them. It offers a broad critique of many commonly-held assumptions and positions that could characterize leftist and anarchist political practice with regard to prison and prisoners.

Black Existentialism

A zine featuring photographic portraits and quotes from writers, activists, and theorists on topics related to existentialism, racism, and America. Authors featured include Malcom X, Angela Davis, James Baldwin, and Huey P. Newton among others.

How to Block Location Tracking with a Bag of Potato Chips

A guide to creating a Faraday phone pouch out of a potato chip bag . Proceeds go to Critical Resistance, a national organization working to abolish the prison industrial complex.

Queer Masses

A zine project being released quarterly in 2020. The title references both large groups of people (community) and the (alternative) rituals from which they can take strength. 

The 2015 Baltimore Uprising

A collection of tweets from Baltimore teens responding to the death of Freddie Gray on April 19, 2015.

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Building for Us : Stories of homesteading and cooperative housing.

Addresses issues surrounding low income housing and the Urban Homesteading Assistance Board in NYC.

Communiqué from an Ex-Cop

This 85-page publication discards the "rambling manifesto" frame advanced by the media and takes up Dorner's challenge to journalists to investigate his claims of an institution rife with corruption, racism, and brutality.

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Ableism Isn't Anarchist

A discussion of disability and ableism.

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For the Love of Bees

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For The Love of Bees is a handmade mini artist book by Caroline Paquita. It is a celebration of honeybees and an homage to colonies lost over the years due to ongoing environmental changes.

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Stunt-doubling the Past, or, How I learned to stop worrying and fuck design pedagogy up the ass

Essay originally commissioned by the Walker Art Center's digital magazine, WALKER READER, under the title 'Let's Talk About Body Reproduction' in July 2018. Read online wlkr.art/npyper

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Arresting Recipes

Recipes written by incarcerated men at the Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center (ERDCC) in Bonne Terre, Missouri.

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Notes from the Second Year: Women's Liberation

Radical feminist publication published in 1970.

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Homes Not Jails: We're Still Here

Information and resources for squatting in San Fransisco.

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Rabid Feminists

We are feminists, and sometimes we are rabid. Is there anything wrong with having or proceeding an extreme or fanatical support of or belief in women's rights? This zine explores some of the Pratt community's thoughts and ideas surrounding feminism, femininity, and womanhood.

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Chinatown Needs Housing Not Jail

Explores the history of the Lower Manhattan jail site, the "Tombs" and the interwoven histories that led to the current mobilization against jail expansion.

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Let My People Love!

A collection of the graphics and writings on the protest signs from the Pride March throughout the years.

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Even The Score, AntiNationalism, vol iv

This project was made in collaboration with nine co-conspirators whose work speaks deeply about meaningful kinship using the tools of curiosity, imagination, care and abolition.

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Street Flash

A retrospective zine series featuring the author's street documentary photography work in New York.

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Mother Nature is a lesbian, an exploration / $c Be Oakley.

"Mother Nature is a Lesbian is a zine of typefaces and prints. The font was made in response to a protest sign used in the New York Chistopher Street Parade in 1974, in which a sign displaying the handwritten message "Mother Nature is a Lesbian" inspired a typeface created in response to that act of protest. The font derived from the original sign extends the initial moment of protest by expanding this moment of agency past a singular event. It has become the unofficial font for GenderFail and has been used in various programs and publications. The typeface is open sourced and available to download at genderfail.space"--Taken from Printed Matter website.


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