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Zines

Collection at Pratt Institute Libraries and general information about Zines
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Chingozine

Chingozine is a collection of works by Latin@ artists that includes drawings of faces, food, animals and comics among others. They discuss topics like the English and Spanish languages, finger puppets, animals and Mexican wrestling.

two people speaking on yellow background

Pajubá : the language of Brazilian travestis

Pajubá - The Language of Brazilian Travestis is a zine that mixes art and linguistics! Learn about the secret language of Brazilian travestis, one that demands not only a knowledge of the African language Yoruba mixed with Portuguese, but also a command of a complex set of performative gestures to go with it.

Level Up

Level Up is a risograph minicomic collaboration between Philly-based artists Nicole Rodriguez and Soumya Dhulekar. This second issue depicts a scene of every day friendship as two get food and discuss their immigrant parents, religion, spirituality, nose rings, and violence.

hands braiding

Faith/ Fe

faith/fe (2021) is River Coello's second compilation of poetry and visual media. Written between the United States and Europe, in English and Spanish, the book explores the power of faith, the strength of transitions. It touches on spiritual growth, intergenerational connectedness, queer love, and trans existence across borders.

Smoke Signal

Issue 33 - Tetsunori Tawaraya solo issue

abstracted fleshy close-up photograph

Feeding, again

Text extracted from 'To the man who shouted "I like pork fried rice"' & 'Orientalism (part II)': poems by Franny Choi, Floating, brilliant, gone, 2014. Martha Stewart's pork fried rice recipe.

pink Risograph print of dripping text

Taj Mah Balls : two lamb recipes from Mamamma

This handmade riso zine includes the author's Grandma's recipes for shikampur kebabs, and for the ambitions folks out there-- her lamb meatball curry.

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.

Circular red ben day print on lavender paper.

A Meditation Companion for Black Life

Visualizes the breath cycle with abstracted imagery of Black revolts and sun cycles. Part of a larger series of work balancing historical and community research of injustice with personal and collective care for restorative energy.

orange sans-serif font on yellow background

Little Black Book

A personal navigation through the complex identity of a Ghanaian born and raised in Italy. This project gathers notes taken in moments of black delight found between duty and pleasure, learning and leisure, and the loss and finding of self. The book comes to life with notes, photographs, and sketches weaved together in the most poetic of ways. 

The God Within: Black Queerness Across the Diaspora

A philosophical commonplace zine about Black queerness throughout the diaspora including anti-colonial/precolonial thinking on queer genders and sexualities.

Hi-jacking of a Culture

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A zine exposing the appropriation of black, indigenous, and Indian culture into the white fashion and advertising mainstream.

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Alfabeto

Visual artist book in which each letter of the Spanish alphabet is printed across a full page to create a grid-like or plaid-like pattern. All letters are printed once in black on white paper and twice in white on black paper; with sheets facing one another.

sideways black and white photo of grillz

All Gold Everything

A zine about grillz.

gold drawing of crown in quotation marks

Crown

A zine that highlights the various hairstyles (“crowns”) that Black women wear on a daily basis.

black sans-serif text on red orange paper

Too Black for B.E.T.

A series of text-based, broadside posters, essays and rants by Jayson Scott Musson, that cover an odd breadth of topics such as politics, Harry Potter, Jay-Z lips, terrorism, sex, drugs, racism, sex again, ‘Hurricane Gentrification’, and of course, Star Wars.

A collection of tweets written in April and May, 2015, responding to the death of Freddie Gray on April 19, 2015.

The 2015 Baltimore Uprising

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

photo of protest sign reading say their names

My Execution Might Be Televised

A zine inspired by contemporary rap music reflecting on police brutality in America. The zine features images from a Black Lives Matter march in New York City. This zine comes to grips with the depersonalization of anti-Black racism prevalent in the United States.

The Fact of Blackness

Published in Black skin, white masks: an English-language translation of his Peau noire, masques blancs.

blindfolded face on blue cardstock

My Black Death

This pamphlet is one in a series titled On the Blackness of BLACKNUSS, initiated by the Moor’s Head Press of BLACKNUSS: books + other relics and published by Publication Studio Hudson.

blindfolded face on orange cardstock

No Humans Involved

Arguments that academia needs to be interrogated for the ways that it discursively ignores, legitimates, and, therefore, creates/sustains the kinds of social hierarchies that inevitably mean racial violence, are equally as poignant and relevant today as they were in 1992.

blindfolded person on red cardstock

Of the Dawn of Freedom

This essay was first published in the book 'The Souls of Black Folk'

photo of people standing over an explosion

Another Word for White Ally is Coward

"The concept of the White Ally is bankrupt. One cannot be an ally to a category of people. To speak the words “I am a White Ally to people of color” is to commit an act of double speak, to internalize non-sense."

burnt paper reading fuck you

For boys who didn't love me... fuck you : a survival guide

A diary of the author's past relationships, along with lessons learned and advice for other gay black boys.

Robert Mapplethorpe self-portrait and photo of black men

Black Images in a White World

A research project about the history of images of black bodies created by white scientists and artists.

black embellished text on white paper

Boro of Kings

Employs photocopied collages of old school computer graphics and photographs. Tongue-in-cheek aristocratic overtones are evoked through images of falling coins, royally-minded fast-food joints, and Country Club Malt Liquor labels.

woman holding tied piece of cloth

Ligatures for Black Bodies

2016 Rattle Chapbook Prize Selection

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Tales from the Hood

All photos taken in Brooklyn, NY between Halloween & Christmas 2004.

white silhouette of person with devil tail

Tejano Ghost Stories : Livestock

"This story is based on my grandfather's ghost stories and his experience working ranches in west Texas from the 1930's through the 60's."

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The Blood and Body

A collection of poetry by multidisciplinary artist Nubia Yasin. Family photos, surreal illustrations, and Yasin's own unique voice as a self described First Generation Somali-Southern Belle combine to create a new world, one equipped with its own folklore and laws of physics.

map with title in english and chinese

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.

a collage of photos on a multicolored background

Échame la Agua

An in-depth look at three stories from LGBTQ+ Cuban refugees who arrived in Miami in the 80's on the Mariel Boatlift.

image of a girl's face is partially covered by a veil. She's holding her braids in her hand on a purple cover.

Where there's love overflowing / E. Jane

"Where there's love overflowing is a publication by E.Jane published by GenderFail in conjunction with the exhibition E Jane: Where there's love overflowing, April 1-May 14, 2022 at The Kitchen. Where there's love overflowing expands on the exhibition themes based on the powerful ballad "Home", originally sung by Stephanie Mills as Dorothy in The Wiz in its Broadway premiere in 1975 and includes images and text featured in the exhibition. The publication also features new commissioned essay, When I think of home, by artist and writer Hannah Black, written exclusively for the publication." -- GenderFail website
1st edition of 300.

Not trans queer brown enough / Mara Gervais.

Originally printed for the 2020 Virtual Sick and Disabled Zine and Craft Fair. Edited and printed for the 2022 SAC-Town Zine Fest.

Spiral notebook with a green cover and faded 35mm photo of a road through a dashboard window.

Summer home / Xiao Ma (Smile)

"Summer Home is an honest and tender view that challenges The Great American Roadtrip, usually done by white men with a camera. Since 2020, high levels of hate crimes have been targeted towards the Asian community, and unfortunately continue today. This is the backdrop in which the author, Xiao Ma (Smile) (all pronouns), did their roadtrip. This project came to life with diary entries, interview Q&As, an iphone, hindsight reflections, and two cameras. We invite you to hold space with them, as well as POCs of the past, present, and future; and follow Smile on their adventure through the US landscape of flowers, field notes, friends, and homeland." -- Printed Matter


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