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A very happy International Zine Libraries Day (July 21st) to all zine libraries and librarians around the world!!! 🥳 As is tradition, if you can, please honor this day by bringing the zine librarian in your life a donut or other sweet treat to celebrate the work and play that they do! 🍩

We are incredibly grateful to be the recipient of one of this year's Jen Angel Anarchist Media Grants. About a year ago we ran out of space to store all of the queer zines that have been donated or acquired by our archive, and this grant's funding will be going to rectify that. #circleaarchivists

Up the Academy – From the Punked Out Files of The Queer Zine Archive Project #4 is the newest edition of our ”research publication” zine that explores scholarship and research about queer zines done by folks working at or visiting QZAP. Available here: gittings.qzap.org/qzap-swag/up...

We're back with a Zine of the Gay! This time June is talking about Oi Boy! No.7 from 1993 and the lost art of letter writing in zines. gittings.qzap.org/digging-thro...

We were reminded over the weekend that the Dirtybird 96 Queercore Festival happened 30 years ago in San Francisco! Check out Larry-bob's website chronicling the bands, films and venues of a bi-gone era: holytitclamps.com/dirtybird/

we're super stoked to note that #alaac26 coincides with Pride this year, and we really hope that folks heading to @zinelibraries.bsky.social Zine Pavilion also take the opportunity to go to the Chicago Dyke March! We're at both (in spirit 👻)

Our friends at Laughing Grackle Zine Distro are seeking submissions of quarter-size zines to add to their new-to-them spinner rack. Quarter-size here is 4.25"x5.5", or ¼ U.S. Letter-sized paper

Part of teaching about queer zines and queer history is talking about the affair between Secret Heart Ken and Earring Magic Ken in the mid 1990s. This officially licensed post card was produced in 1994, just one year after Ken came out. Happy Pride, Y’all

Holy Shit! QZAP friend @sheerspite.bsky.social has zinified Teleny by Oscar Wilde. Once censored as smutty smut, now punk as fuck!

This is coming up this weekend! Finally!!! Happy queer pride and happy queer wrath month.

We are super excited to announce that we’re collaborating with our friends at SEEN and Cactus+ to bring The Lollipop Generation by one of the pioneers of Queercore, filmmaker, artist and zinester G.B. Jones, back to Milwaukee.

New Zine of the Gay!! This time Rowan wrote about Raptor Fancy out of southern California from the 2010s (and finished their BFA in the process!!* Go Rowan!) gittings.qzap.org/raptor-jesus/ #raptorfancy #zineofthegay #gaydinosaurs *unrelated to ZotG

We're back after a busy couple of weeks with a new Zine of the Gay post! This week Erica wrote about Hello Pussy #1, a multi-lingual zine from 2003 that explores sex, gender and Hello Kitty. gittings.qzap.org/hello-pussy/

We're working on getting our shit together a whole week ahead of time this year! Come visit @chrisqzap.bsky.social and @tea-spo0n.bsky.social who will be tabling for us this year while M is at UMD w/ @zinelib.bsky.social.

Oh, HAY!! It's time for another Zine of the Gay! This week Erica is looking at just a few of the many 8 page mini-zines that we have in the collection. gittings.qzap.org/small-but-mi...

Woke up thinking about this sticker folio from ACT-UP Chicago circa 1990ish. archive.qzap.org/index.php/De... #actup #actupfightback #nowar #fightaids

Happy Sunday! A new Zine of the Gay dropped this morning. Rowan vs The Volcano 🌋 gittings.qzap.org/eruption-imm...

New Zine of the Gay post!! This week Erica writes about Pathologize This!, the mental health comp zine by Sarah Tea Rex from 2008. gittings.qzap.org/pathologize-...

W00t! It's a new Zine of the Gay! This week Rowan takes a look at Queers, Families, and the Squat Community from 2011 Amsterdam. gittings.qzap.org/queer-family...

We're getting ready to have this exact conversation with our writing interns tomorrow. Yes, words have been weaponized against us. Also, those same words have contributed to us finding ourselves and each other and building communities and fighting back, too.