April 6, 2024
The NYC Feminist Zinefest will return to Barnard College on Saturday, April 6, 2024, 12-6pm. This year we are in partnership with the amazing Word Up bookstore <3.
Barnard Hall, 4th floor / 3009 Broadway / New York, NY 10027. Take the 1 train, the M4 or the M104 to 116th.
MASK REQUIRED 12-1PM. Masks required all day in the smaller room and strongly suggested in the larger room. Wheelchair accessible.
This year’s organizers are:
- Jade Levine (she/they)
- Jenna Freedman (she/her)
- Jordan Alam (they/them)
- Veronica Liu (she/her)
- Elvis Bakaitis (they/them)
Tablers for 2024!
- ABC No Rio
- Amy Wanner Jeansome
- Angelica Aranda
- Anuradha Golder
- Barnard Zine Collective
- Birdwatching Collective
- #blkgrlswurld ZINE
- Brown Recluse Zine Distro
- Club Etiquette
- @crochetactivism
- CU Apartheid Divest
- Divine Zine
- Dre Grigoropol
- E.T. Russian
- The East Village Inky
- Eileen Ramos
- Ella Joklik
- Elliott Junkyard
- Elliott Eminizer & Sam Trollo
- L’Euguelionne Queer Feminist Bookstore
- Farha Najah
- Heather Jackson
- Impostor Monster Zines
- Izzy Hays
- J. Henry Hansen
- Jean Moore
- Jennifer Camper
- landri peirce
- Library Freedom Project
- Lily O’Donnell
- Maamoul Press
- Mami Soy Emo – Marisol Silva Pilares
- Mara Gervais
- Niamh Timmons
- Nicole Testa LaLiberty
- Olivia Montoya
- Pau Venadito
- Pleasure Pie
- PMS Babydoll
- Pretty Dirty Press
- Rachael Cain
- Sasha Hill / Alex Hastings
- Sawyer Lovett
- Seven@Twelve
- Sharon Lee De La Cruz
- Silas Dixon
- snailianne
- Sojourners for Justice Press
- The Support Ho(s)e Collective
- tender beings
- Three Fifty
- The Trans Closet of the Hudson Valley
- Unity & Struggle
- Untitled Artwork (61)
- Urban Ochre Press
- Vicco
- Victoria Law
- The Wheelhouse
- Word Up Books
- Work
- Yay Friendship! (Jan Descartes & Mylo Mendez)
- Zines and Bones
The Fest
The NYC Feminist Zinefest started in 2012 in Brooklyn. It’s been the inspiration for four other incredible zinefests—Massachusetts Feminist Zinefest (2018), Philly Feminist Zinefest (2012 + 2014), Feminist Zinefest Pittsburgh (2015), and Hamilton Zine Fair (2014, 2015, and 2016).
Keep an eyeball on Instagram, for updates, events, and ziney chatter. Volunteer to help. Donate to help defray costs for participants and volunteers. (Don’t worry when you’re directed to a page that gives an organizer’s government name. That’s a PayPal thing we can’t defeat.)
Why a feminist zinefest?
Zines are like the rush of vitality—of pure, home-cooked creativity, of an emotion so big that it overwhelms you, leaping across pages of a booklet, as real as it was in your own chest. Zines are pure creation—all the choices, page layout/mix, everything—are 100% up to you.
We’ve seen zines with stickers all over ’em, with (real) toenail clippings inside (!), with Bible verses & then pages from someone’s diary. Zines can live forever, they tap into strange, electric power, the deeply personal, spit up into a collaged, unholy meld of inside & outside, private thoughts and public space. We love ’em because they don’t look “perfect,” the late-night mad scribblings, everything you want to say but somehow sounds better written down.
Zines are the voices of those who thrive beyond and outside of the margins. Where ideas erased from traditional media live on. We love what that space represents. We want to create more spaces that feel that way.
Please be in touch with any questions or comments. We’re always down 2 chat. Our email is feministzinefestnyc (at) gmail dot com :—)
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