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Zines

Collection at Pratt Institute Libraries and general information about Zines
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Faith / Fe

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.

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Bar Dykes

The play tells the story of several women dealing with relationships and flirting at a lesbian bar in the 1950s.

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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. 

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First Landscape: Tentative Maps of a world in Formation

Images of a newly condensing and still shifting world, landscapes that address the liminality I feel in myself as a genderqueer person rather than the colonial solidness of a traditional European style landscape.

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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.

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NYPD: Guilty of Sexual Violence

May 26, 2012—With news of another sexual assault in Park Slope comes the alarming disclosure that NYPD incompetence has allowed a known sexual predator to freely roam the streets.

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Husband Calling Competition

A critical presentation of the eponymous contest at the Illinois State Fair (held in the same space as the hog-calling competition), Husband Calling Competition frames this little-known custom through a direct and quintessential lens of gender and sexuality. 

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Pajubá : the language of Brazilian travestis

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.

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A Poem For This Frontier of Language

This series explores the interaction between the historical role of the book as a social object, zines as an alternative information source for queer communities, and the narrowing space between artists' books and zines in a world in which all physical publishing is increasingly rare.

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Gender &

Showcasing poetry, prose, and visual art from humans somewhere in the galaxy of gender diversity

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Dr. RAD’s Queer Health Show

Info on self-examinations you can do at home, along with important checkups, who needs what, and when! This issue concentrates on making sure everyone, with all of our different genders and body parts, has a chance to be in good health.

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You're So Sexy: When You Aren't Transmitting STD's

A comprehensive comic book guide to sexual health. The book uses humor and the comic book format to reach out to adults and young adults about their sexual health, especially members of the LGBTQ community who may have difficulty finding sexual health resources.

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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. 

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

This essay was originally commissioned by the Walker Art Center's digital magazine, WALKER READER, under the title 'Let's Talk About Body Reproduction' in July of 2018. Available to view online at wlkr.art/npyper

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Gaylord Phoenix

Graphic zine series featuring Edie Fake's queer mystical adventure, robotic/humanoid creature Gaylord Phoenix.

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Authentic Affirmations pt. 3

"Still Here, Still Queer" An original collection of watercolour works paired with affirming messages.

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Big Fat Femme no. 2 : Fat in Public

A "queer, fat, white, cis femme with invisible disabilities," shares her experiences with discrimination. She mentions strangers mistaking her as pregnant, feeling uncomfortable in bathroom stalls and church pews, eating in public, using the subway system, and accessibility for fat people.

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They Walk

A personal zine touching upon themes of nonbinary transgender identity, physical transition, family rejection, the possibilities of queer community family, and one very important pet cat.

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Gender

Quotations on women, men and masculinity, and queerness, with original drawings.

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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.

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Decker Library Erotic Collection

An overview of the erotic collection in MICA's Decker Library with materials dating from 1933 and 1970-2000s, which "represent a period of trying to evade Obsenity Laws or arrest for being homosexual."

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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.

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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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