Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library

Please join us on Wednesday, March 26, at 3:30 pm in the Rare Book Room in Perkins Library for the chance to learn everything you wanted to know about zines, but were afraid to ask. Local zine writers and collectors will tell the stories of their first encounters with zines and how writing and reading ... (lisää)zines influenced their lives. Items from the Bingham Center's collection of almost 4,000 zines by women will be on display. Light refreshments will be served. More about the panel: Jaime Danehey, originally from a small town outside of Omaha, Nebraska, will be talking about how she and her sister turned their family newsletter into a zine called "The Daily The," which they have been publishing since the early 1990s. Alexis Gumbs, a graduate student in the English dept at Duke, will be talking about how she uses zines by women of color in her coursework with undergraduates. Amy Mariaskin, a graduate student in psychology at Duke, will discuss how being involved in zine culture shaped her adolescence, and as a child therapist, how she encourages artsy/crafty teens to find DIY communities. Mariaskin has also donated her zine collection to the Bingham Center and authored the zine "Southern Fried Darling." Your Name Here: Do you have a zine story to tell? Come and share it!