Related Resources

Zine Anthologies

Items held by Duke University are linked to the catalog record.

• Angel, Jen, ed. The Zine Yearbook. Vols 1- 8. 1996-2003.
• Crabb, Cindy. Doris: An Anthology, 1991-2001. Portland, OR: Microcosm Publishing, 2005.
• Friedman, R. Seth, ed. The Factsheet Five Zine Reader. New York: Three Rivers Press, 1997.
• Gore, Ariel. The Essential Hip Mama: Writing from the Cutting Edge of Parenting. Emeryville, CA: Seal Press, 2004.
• Green, Karen and Tristan Taormino, eds. A Girl’s Guide to Taking Over the World. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 1997.
• Martens, China. Future Generation: The Zine-Book for Subculture Parents, Kids, Friends and Others. Baltimore: Atomic Book Company, 2007.
• Miya-Jervis, Lisa and Andi Zeisler, eds. BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.
• Karp, Marcelle and Debbie Stoller, eds. The Bust Guide to the New Girl Order. New York: Penguin Books, 1999.
• Rowe, Chip, ed. The Book of Zines: Readings from the Fringe. New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1997.
• Vale, V. Zines! Vols. 1 and 2. San Francisco: Re/Search Publications, 1996.
• Wann, Marilyn. Fat! So? Because You Don’t Have to Apologize for Your Size!  Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press, 1998.

Secondary Sources

Items held by Duke University are linked to the catalog record.

• Bartel, Julie. From A to Zine: Building a Winning Zine Collection in Your Library. Chicago; American Library Association, 2004.
• Block, Francesca Lia and Hillary Carlip. Zine Scene: The Do It Yourself Guide to Zines. Los Angeles: Girl Press, 1998.
• Duncombe, Stephen. Notes from Underground: Zines and the Politics of Alternative Culture. London: Verso, 1997.
• Farrelly, Liza. Zines. London: Booth-Ciborn, 2001.
• Findlen, Barbara, ed. Listen Up: Voices from the Next Feminist Generation. New expanded ed. Seattle: Seal Press, 2001.
• Florez, Rita. Why Zines Won’t Die.  GOOD Magazine (www.goodmagazine.com).
• Gunderloy, Mike and Cari Goldberg Janice. The World of Zines: A Guide to the Independent Magazine Revolution. New York: Penguin Books, 1992.
• Harris, Anita. Future Girl: Young Women in the Twenty-First Century. New York: Routledge, 2004.
• Inness, Sherrie A., ed. Delinquents and Debutantes: Twentieth-Century American Girls’ Cultures. New York: New York University Press, 1998.
• Kalmar, Veronika. Start your own zine: everything you need to know to put it into print! New York: Hyperion, 1997.
• Kearney, Mary Celeste. Girls make media. New York: Routledge, 2006.
• Labaton, Vivien and Dawn Lundy Martin, eds. The Fire This Time: Young Activists and the New Feminism. New York: Anchor Books, 2004.
• Lankford, Ronald D. Women singer-songwriters in rock: a populist rebellion in the 1990s. Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 2010.
• Marcus, Sarah. Girls to the front : the true story of the Riot grrrl revolution. New York : HarperPerennial, c2010.
• Monem, Nadine. Riot grrrl : revolution girl style now! London : Black Dog Publishing, c2007.
• Nam, Vickie. Yell-oh Girls!: Emerging Voices Explore Culture, Identity, and Growing Up Asian American. New York: Quill, 2001.
• Piepmeier, Alison. Girl zines : making media, doing feminism. New York : New York University Press, c2009. [Note: Part of the research for this book was based on materials at the Sallie Bingham Center.]
• Reger, Jo, ed. Different Wavelengths: Studies of the Contemporary Women’s Movement. New York, NY: Routledge, 2005.
• Robbins, Trina. From Girls to Grrlz: A History of Women’s Comics from Teens to Zines. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1999.
• Sabin, Roger and Teal Triggs, eds. Below Critical Radar: Fanzines and Alternative Comics from 1976 to Now. Hove, UK: Slab-O-Concrete Publications, 2001.
• Spencer, Amy. DIY: The Rise of Lo-Fi Culture. London: Marion Boyars, 2005.
• Watson, Esther Pearl and Mark Todd. Whatcha Mean, What’s a Zine? New York: Graphia, 2006.
• Wooten, Kelly. Women’s Zines in the Sarah Dyer Zine Collection. MSLS Thesis, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2002.

Audio-visual Materials

Items held by Duke University are linked to the catalog record.

• Don’t Let the System Get You Down: Cheer Up! [DVD] The New York City Radical Cheerleaders present ; a documentary video by Jen Nedbalsky and Mary Christmas, 2004.
  A documentary of the radical pro-choice cheerbloc at the march for women’s lives April 25, 2004 in Washington D.C.
• Don’t Need You. [DVD] Directed by Kerri Koch. Urban Cowgirl Productions, 2006.
  Tells the story of the origins of Riot Grrrl in the American independent music scene of the 1990s, and how this feminist movement evolved into a revolutionary underground network of education and self-awareness through music, writing, activism, and women-friendly community. The film features one-on-one interviews interspersed with rare, archival materials, including original Riot Grrrl fanzines, flyers, and photographs, as well as seldom seen footage from pioneering Riot Grrrl bands like Bikini Kill, Heavens to Betsy, and Bratmobile.
• Girls Rock! interview with ROCKRGRL founder Carla DeSantis Originally aired on WUNC’s radio program The State of Things, November 7, 2008.
• Grrlyshow. [videocassette] Directed by Kara Herold. Women Make Movies, 2001.
  A documentary about girl-zines and girl-zine makers.
• My Life in Zines interview with Alexis Gumbs and Jaime Danehey. Originally aired on WUNC’s radio program The State of Things, March 25, 2008. 
• A Hundred Dollars and a T-shirt: A Documentary about Zines in the Northwest. [DVD] Directed by Joe Biel. Microcosm Publishing, 2004.
• Zined!: A Documentary. [videocassette] Directed by Mark Moscato.  Baby Marvin Productions, 1997.

Websites About Zines

• The Global Grrrl Zine Network created by Elke Zobl 
• The Book of Zines created by Chip Rowe  
• A Zine-ography: an annotated list of books and articles about zines compiled by Chris Dodge
• Zines by Women and Grrrls: A Resource Pathfinder, 2006. This pathfinder created by Amy McDonald highlights resources related to women’s zines held in the library systems of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University.

Selected Zine Libraries in the United States

This list is an abbreviated selection of academic, public, and community-based libraries. More complete listings may be found through the websites listed above and through other zine library sites.

• Barnard College Zine Collection New York City, NY 
• Civic Media Center Zine Library Gainesville, FL  
• Denver Zine Library Denver, CO  
• DePaul University Libraries Zine Collection Chicago, IL 
• Fales Library Riot Grrrl Collection New York University, New York, NY
• Independent Publishing Resource Center Portland, OR  
• Minnesota Community and Technical College Minneapolis, MN  
• New York Public Library New York, NY
• New York State Library (Factsheet Five collection) Albany, NY
• Queer Zine Archive Project Milwaukee, WI
• Richard Hugo House Zine Archive & Publishing Project (ZAPP) Seattle, WA
• Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture at Duke University Durham, NC
• Salt Lake City Public Library Salt Lake City, UT
• San Diego State University West Coast Zine Collection San Diego, CA    
• San Francisco Public Library San Francisco, CA
• Tulane University Newcomb College Center for Research on Women New Orleans, LA  
• University of Iowa Libraries Zine and Amateur Press Collections Iowa City, IA
• University of Michigan Labadie Collection Ann Arbor, MI  
• Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center Urbana, IL
• Zineopolis University of Portsmouth, UK