New Issue: Unbound: A Journal of Digital Scholarship, Special Issue on Zines

Unbound: A Journal of Digital Scholarship, Vol. 4 No. 1 (2026): Academizines!

Welcome to Academizines!
Spencer D. C. Keralis, Zach Frazier

Articles

Academizines!
A Manifesto
Zach Frazier, Spencer D. C. Keralis

A Zine Workshop Facilitator’s Spine
Zinedebaad Collective, Riya Behl, Shruti Singh, Chetana Pai

Creative Zinergy
Student-led Zine Workshops and Research in an Academic Library
Jillian Sandy

Zine and Heard
PhD Research About Survivors of the Mental Health System (can) Address Epistemic Injustice via Zines.
Tasmin Walker

Crunching Around
Zines and DIY Digital Scholarship
Patrick Williams

Exploring Zine Making as Critical Dialogue
Vitoria Faccin-Herman, Justin Wigard

ZC/ZL: Imagining Relationships Between Zine Creators and Zine Librarians
Al Cassada

Shared Authority
Zine Union Catalog Capstone Issue
Jenna Freedman, Lauren Kehoe

Zines as Traces of Encounters
Eloïse Ly Van Tu

Finding Zines in South and Southeast Asia
Zoë McLaughlin

Critical Conversations
Race and Disability in the Premodern World
Dalton Greene

(What Makes You) Come Alive?
Notes on an Embodied Pedagogy
Max Barnewitz

Gunk Ink Zine
Hinda Mandell

I Want You to Have This
Oisin Sheerin

“To Become a Society That’s Meaningful”
A (Zine) History of the Ella Jo Baker Intentional Community Cooperative
Jessica A. Rucker, Ajowa Ifateyo

Apian Gazette
Special Issue, Number 1, Vol. 2.5, 2025.
Aladin Borioli

Trustpassing
Andrea Zeffiro

Inflammatory States
Doing Ethnography Where It Hurts
Andie Thompson

The Ghosts of Times Square: A Zine Exploring Representations of Times Square through Film
Kel R. Karpinski, Queer Sailors Zines

Keith Walsh
Weapons of Mass Instruction
Mike Olson

Justice by Design
Designing with Accountability, Care and Critical Self-Awareness
Johnathan Subendran

Deviant by Design
Forging Educational Systems for Path-Diverse Learners
Ruth S. Xing

This Must Be The Place
Zines as Personal Media Archaeology
Claire Sewell

Ka-CHONK!
A Textile –> Computing History via Punched Cards
Cassandra Hradil

We Will Not Be Silent
Art Transforming Rape Culture
Hannah Brancato

Sex Workers and the Case for Decriminalization vs. Legalization
Jen (JD) Derless

My Abortion Journey
Jule Setele

Arranging Life and Death
A Zine About Taxidermy
Christy Tidwell

the past is a house next door
Maddy Cherr

Citizenship and Liberation
An Analysis of Mid-20th Century Community Schools for 21st Century Organizers
Erica Veal, Nate Hubler

The Workshop Zine for Workshopping Workshops
libi rose striegl

The Roots of this Tree are Rotten!
Resisting the Capitalist Push for GenAI
Carmen Mitchell

Zines are Inevitable!
Jeffrey Canino, Gillian Friedlander, Deborah Tomaras, Margaret Roach

Disability, Technoethics, and Power
Exploring AI Refusal
Anna Boutin-Cooper, Andrea Puglisi

Heresy in the Library
Planting a Paradigm
jean amaral

Imagined Horrors
The Gothic Image in Poe Comics
John Edward Martin, Sam Miller

Comparative Literature as Collage
Cynthia Shin

Tracing the C.R.O.W.N.
Reclaiming the Dissertation as a Living Cultural Document
Jehnae Linkins

Butoh Notes
Daily Imagery for Porous Sensitivities
Ulrike Scholtes

(de)colonial
Evangeline Giaconia

The Drolls
A Dramaturgical Mini-Zine
Alyssa Barrack

Afro-Futurism
An Odyssey into Black Futures
Chayanne Sandoval-Williams, Katie Antrainer

Business Card Zine
(for Megan Lotts)
Megan Lotts

Caring for Digital Files
Sarah Glover

Audre Lorde in the Hunter College Libraries
Dorian Onifer

Reviews

Julie Dachez (author) & Mademoiselle Caroline (illustrator). 2020. Invisible Differences: A Story of Asperger’s, Adulting, and Living a Life in Full Color.
JJ Pionke

Leave a comment