Inventory of the Ailecia Ruscin Zine Collection, 1994-2002 and undated
[top]Descriptive Summary
Repository
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke
University
Creator
Ruscin, Ailecia
Title
Ailecia Ruscin Zine Collection, 1994-2002 and undated
Language of Material
Material in English
Extent
7.2 Linear Feet
552 Items
Abstract
552 Items
The collection consists of 552 zines, collected by the donor between 1994 and 2001. The collection focuses on personal zines by women, politics, the punk music scene, social justice activism, and riot grrrl. Many of the zines are accompanied by correspondence with the donor.
Ailecia Ruscin is a writer, activist, and scholar from San Antonio, Texas and Auburn, Alabama. She is the author or co-author of the zines provo-CAT-ive and alabama grrrl (published from 1997-2000).
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Administrative Information
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Copyright Notice
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Ailecia Ruscin Zine Collection, Rare Book,
Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.
Provenance
The Ailecia Ruscin Zine Collection was received by the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library as a
gift in 2005.
Processing Information
Processed by Amy McDonald and Melody Rowell, November 2008
Encoded by Amy McDonald, November 2008
Accession 2005-0032 is described in this finding aid.
Descriptive sources and standards used to create this inventory: DACS, EAD, NCEAD guidelines, and our local Style Guide.
This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.
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Biographical Note
Ailecia Ruscin, of San Antonio, Texas and Auburn, Alabama, is a writer, activist, and scholar. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Cultural Studies and Environmental Studies from Chatham College in 1999 and, as of 2008, is completing a Ph.D. in American Studies at the University of Kansas. Ruscin is the author or co-author of the zines provo-CAT-ive and alabama grrrl (published from 1997-2000); an excerpt from provo-CAT-ive was included in A Girl's Guide to Taking Over the World: Writings From The Girl Zine Revolution, edited by Tristan Taormino and Karen Green, and excerpts from alabama grrrl have been included in The Zine Yearbook. Ruscin is one of the founding members of Solidarity! Revolutionary Center and Radical Library, an anarchist infoshop in Lawrence, Kansas; has served on the advisory boards of Allied Media Projects and Clamor magazine; and contributes zine reviews to Zine World.
[top]Collection Overview
The collection consists of 552 zines, collected by the donor between 1994 and 2001. The collection focuses on personal zines by women, politics, the punk music scene, social justice activism, and riot grrrl. Many of the zines are accompanied by correspondence with the donor. Acquired as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture.
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Subject Headings
These are searchable subject entries for this collection. Performing a search on these subjects in the Duke University Libraries online catalog will bring up other related research materials.
- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Fanzines.
- Feminism--United States.
- Periodicals--Publishing--United States.
- Political activists--Southern States.
- Ruscin, Ailecia (Collector).
- Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture.
- Self-publishing.
- Underground press publications--United States.
- Women--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Young women--United States--Social life and customs.
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Detailed Description of Collection
Ailecia Ruscin Zine Collection, 1994-2002 and undated
12 Boxes
Box 1
Aberration
Activist Approach to Domestic Violence
Adele
Adorn
Air I Breathe
AK Press Catalog
Alabama Grrrl
Alaska
Alien
(2 issues)
Alley Brat
Alternatives to Pads and Tampons
Alternatives to Tampons
Amusing Yourself to Death
(2 issues)
Anarchism: The Feminist Connection
Annzine
Anorexic Mishaps
(2 issues)
Anti-Punk
Aptitude & Appetite
(2 issues)
Aqua Girl Star
Arrowed
(3 issues)
Art Machine
Assassin and the Whiner
(2 issues)
Automatic Pansy
(2 issues)
AWOL
B.B.'s Revenge
(2 issues)
Baby Girl
(2 issues)
Backlash
Bacon
Bamboo Girl
(4 issues)
BananaQ
Bandit Queen Distribution
Banshee
Box 2
Be Nice or I'll Fucking Kill You
Being Red
Belly Up
(2 issues)
Bernadette the Squirrel
Beyond
(2 issues)
Beyond a Joke
Billy's Mitten
Bitch Nation
Bitchcore
Blender Children
(3 issues)
Blue Skies
Book
(2 issues)
Book Your Own Fuckin' Life
(2 issues)
Boredom Sucks
Bottled Up
Boy & Girl
Brat
Brazen Hussy Comics
Breakdown
Brewster
(3 issues)
Broken Distro
Broken Pencil
Bruja
Burnt
Business as Usual
C. Parks
(2 issues)
Cacofonia Deliciosa
(2 issues)
Cain
Cakewalk
Candy Coated Teeth
Cataclysm Girl
Cemented Youth
Chard Copy
(2 issues)
Cheap Porn and Bad Food
Cherry Cherry Red
Chickfactor
Chokehold
Box 3
Christine Bactine
Cloudland
Con Queso
Confluence
Consider Yourself Kissed
(3 issues)
Cory
Counterclockwise
Cracker
(2 issues)
Crazed Sparrow
(2 issues)
Creamsicle
(2 issues)
Crescent
Crude Noise
Crush Zine
Cuntfear
Cupsize
(3 issues)
curmudgeon
Cuss
Cyanide
dead glamorous
Death of a Psyche
(2 issues)
Death Ship
Deconstruction
Defenestrator
Delivery Dyke
Della Dart & Rachel Jacobs
Demigod
(2 issues)
Disgruntl T.V.
(4 issues)
Disorderly Conduct
Disorientation Guide
Divinity
Dixie Cup
DIY Crafts Primer
DMZ
Dodo
Dogfish
Donald's Date
Don't Stop (Stop)
Box 4
Doris
(8 issues)
Double Negative
Douze Jours En France
Dream whip
(2 issues)
Drivel
(2 issues)
Ducks in a Row
Dumb Fun
Dumpsterland
East Village Inky
Electrocution Distribution
Emergency
Epi-Logue
Epson Energy
Equilibrium
Estrogen Overdose/Dysfunxion
Evolution of a Race Riot
Exploding Girl
Factura No Pagada
Fairy Flower Distro
Fancy
(5 issues)
Fantastic Fanzine
Fantasy Cat
Feminist as Fuck
Femme Flicke
Femmestruation Rites Rag
Fern
Fiano Apple is Feeding the Tree
Floating Bear Zine
Flowers from the Rain
Fly Pink Hair
Flying Lesson
Food Geek
For Anne
Forget the Show
Fragile
Fuck Off Western Medicine
Function
Futotcho
Future Generation
Box 5
Girl and her Bike
Girl Face Girl
Girl in a Box
(2 issues)
Girl Patch
Girl Swirl Fanzine
(2 issues)
Girl's Life Magazine
Glitter Queer
Goddess
Goddess Juice
God's Own Methane
Good Mornin
Good Not Bad
Good Swift Kick
Gray Matters Magzine
(4 issues)
Grrlz on the Road
Grub
Gumption
Guts
Gutsy
Harbinger
(2 issues)
Heart Attack
Heartattack
(2 issues)
Heartfelt
Held Like Sound
Hello Nothing
Here Be Dragons
(4 issues)
Hodgepodge
Hollywood Nihil
Honey Child
Hot Pantz
House of Anarchy
(2 issues)
How I Learned to Do IT Bloody Murder
How to Stage a Coup
I Am Not a Sell-Out
I am not pretty
I Blot Under the Milk
I Crossed My Heart Catalog
I Draw Starz
I Dreamed I Was Assertive!
(2 issues)
I Think I Am
Box 6
I Was a Teenage Girl Army
I Will Not Be Afraid
Idiolect
Imps in the Inkwell
(6 issues)
In Abandon
in memory of a carsurfer
In Morning Clouds
(3 issues)
In Morning Clouds / Treefort
Independent Publishing Resource Center Brochure
Indulgence
(6 issues)
Insisterhood
(2 issues)
Invincible Summer
Jailhouse Turnout
Jigsaw
Journal of an Insomniac
Journalsong
Justseeds
Keep Yer Kitty Wet
Ker-bloom!
(2 issues)
Kiss Off
Kusp
Kusp
La Ciudad
Lady Lazarus
Last Chance
Law of Inertia
Box 7
Leeking Ink
(2 issues)
Lefty Makes a Better Cake
Lemon Meringue
Lesbian Connection
Libel Alien Idiot Nation
Limousine / That Girl
Lip Synch
LIPP Service
Lipstick My Espionage
Liquid Thoughtz
Little Super Human Guy
(2 issues)
Losing My Religion
Love Letter
(3 issues)
Lovezine
Lucky Lucky
Lust and Lunacy
Make Out
Mantis
(2 issues)
Matilda
(2 issues)
Maximumquillnscrol
Maximumrocknroll
(3 issues)
Me.
Melt the Snow
Memorytown USA
Message to the Black Movement
Millenniumitis
Miranda
(2 issues)
MOC
Mommy and I Are One
monkey's magical book of cheese
Monsters are Real
More Signs You do Zine
Move Closer
Moving Parts
Muffin Bones
Multiple Sarcasm
(2 issues)
Box 8
My Best Friend
My Green Bag
My Own Personal Star
My Views Change Over Time
Nerdy Grrrl Revolution
New Faggot Cunts
Nice Girls Don't Say Fuck You
Night of Vice
Nipples and Bits
No More Tears Left to Cry
Not My Small Diary
(2 issues)
Now a Limo
(4 issues)
Octopus Head Collective
(2 issues)
Off My Jammy
Okefenokee
Opening Statement
Operation Kitty Kitty
(2 issues)
Opposites Subtract
Oppress This
(2 issues)
Oppress This Zine
Other Ramona
Out of Order
Out of the Vortex
Outburst
Outdated La-oo-ra
Pain on Earth
Pander Zine Distro
(3 issues)
Pansy
Paperdoll
Paranoy
Paroxysm
Passionate Frog
Peach
Peculiar Twirling Skirt
Pedestrian Parallax
Penguins & Alligators
Period Conspiracy
Persnickety Prints
Picaflor
Pink Tea
Pippi Longstocking
Pisces Ladybug
Pisces Zine Distro and Fun Stuff Catalog
(2 issues)
Pixxiebitch
Planet Named Desire
Plunger
PMS
Polarity / Freewheeler
Box 9
Polaroid Manifesto
Political Art
Poor Children
Pout
(3 issues)
Power Candy
Primordial Soup Kitchen
Pritty Kitty Clothes
Project Pinky
Projet Mobilivre-Bookmobile Project Brochure
Pull the Plug
Pulled Mints
(2 issues)
Puncture
Punkindex
Queen of the Kangaroos
Queer Resource Mini-Zine
Queer Zine Explosion
(2 issues)
Rad Girlz
Rage Against
Rainbow Pudding
Rampage
RATE
Rather Be Dead Than Cool
Raw Sugar
Razorcake
Record Reviews
Red Scare
(2 issues)
Red Under
Red-Hooded Sweatshirt
(2 issues)
Renegade's Handbook to Love and Sabotage
(2 issues)
Box 10
Retail Whore
(3 issues)
Riot Dyke
Riot Grrrl
Riot Grrrl Montreal
Riot Grrrl Press
Rocket Queen
Rockstar
Rule of Thumb
Running with a Lolly
Runt
(2 issues)
Satellite Whispers
Scam
Scorpion
Screams from Inside
(2 issues)
Selective Living
(2 issues)
Self-Defense
SemiBold
(2 issues)
Shag Stamp
Shake Bottle Shake
Sharkpool
Shera
Shit Pop
Shooting Stars and Midnight Wishes
Shredding Paper
Silence Through the Noise
(2 issues)
Sixty
Slander
(2 issues)
Slave
Box 11
Slingshot
(3 issues)
Slug & Lettuce
(5 issues)
SlutWhoreBitch
Snailmania
So What?
Sojourner
Solidarity
Some Thoughts About Jack
Something Like That
Sour Girl
(2 issues)
Spike's Rant
Stay Gold
Stick Figure
sticker sisters
Stifled
Stitch Witchery
Street Rat
Struggler
Swing Set Grrl
Tadoussac
Taking Charge
Techno
Teenage Death Songs
Teeny Tiny Robots
Terrorist
Texttrap
That Girl
This is About Suicide
This World is Broken
Threat Warning
Three O'Clock
TIA & Coffee
To Avoid Suffocation
(4 issues)
Topical Dictionary of American Government and Politics
Train Grease Panty Line
Tree of Knowledge
Truckface
Truly Amazing Gender Aptitude Quiz
Turf
twat
Two for the Road
Two Forty A.M.
Box 12
Underground Publishing Conference
underpants
Valley Girl
Valvo
Verboslammed
Version Two Point Oh
(2 issues)
Vietnam Never Happened
Vortex
(2 issues)
Welcome to the Dollhouse
Welcome to the Revolution
What Rich Jerkface Owned Your Town?
When I Die…
Whirling Cervix
Whitehead
Whitespace
Words As Weapons
(2 issues)
Xerox Debt
(2 issues)
Ya Think?
Yard Wide Yarns
Youth Quake
Zillion Chronicles of Near Love
Zine Guide
(4 issues)
Zine Head
Zine World
(4 issues)
Zinester's Guide to New York City
Zinester's Listserv
Zum
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