Zine Collections

The Bingham Center holds one of the largest collections of these self-published works by women and girls in the country. These highly personal, often political publications range from photocopy collage to high production glossies and express an incredible breadth of women's and girl's interests and talents, including music.

Cove, Karissa. Zines, 2000-2002.

Canadian artist. Includes four issues of the self-published zine CRACKERS AND HONEY. Unusual materials make her zine a hybrid of a zine and an artist's book.

Dwayne Dixon Zine Collection, ca. 1984-ca. 1995.

Approximately 110 zines produced across the United States and Central America and collected by Dixon throughout the 1990s. The majority of the zines demonstrate young men's search for life's meaning, morality, and identity, especially through hardcore and punk music/lifestyle. Other groups of zines were produced by children participating in various after-school and enrichment programs in Durham, NC; by Central American women; and by young American women raging against rape and sexism and searching for a less traditional sexual identity.

Dyer, Sarah. Sarah Dyer Zine Collection, 1974-2000.

Approximately 1500 individual zines and nearly 800 titles, all self-published by women and girls. Most were produced in the United States. Subjects include feminism, riot grrrl, body image and consciousness, sexual abuse, music, mental illness, film, poetry, rock and punk music, comics, violence against women, sexual identity, homosexuality, bisexuality, and erotica.

Wood, Sarah. Sarah Wood Zine Collection, [1990s].

Approximately 100 zines self-published by women and girls, chiefly in the United States. Subjects include feminism, riot grrrl, body image and consciousness, women's health, women athletes, sexual abuse, television and film, poetry and short stories, rock and punk music, violence against women, sexual identity, homosexuality, and bisexuality.