A new vending machine in the New Orleans Healing Center provides free access to birth control, emergency contraceptives, condoms, fentanyl test strips and Narcan. https://ow.ly/8EBQ50Z1Vr6

This Weds May 20th, attend a free webinar about hosting zine programming in your library! "Cut, Paste, Create: Designing Memorable Zine Workshops" will include tips for running the most exciting, accessible, & engaging zine programs possible. washstatelib.libcal.com/event/16793329 📚 #zines

saw this on an ACT UP poster from 1988 at the Poster House museum today. the more things change :)

Our friends at ZINEmercado & @newberrylibrary.bsky.social are hosting Planting Seeds: An Indigenous Zine Fest in Chicago on Saturday May 16th! 🌱 www.newberry.org/calendar/zin... #zines #IndigenousZines

EFF has defended your right to privacy since 1990 🔐 Long before most people knew they needed defending! Technology has evolved in magical ways, but our mission hasn't changed. Support our work today: eff.org/spring

"There are so many ways to die in Alaska...." Unfailingly intimate and domestic, Jamez Terry's Grief Is Not Shelf Stable, maps loss as internal, eternal; binding floorboard to footstep, loved one to landscape—a topography of grief. kithbooks.com/shop/p/shelfstable

There are some hard truths here, and every Democrat needs to watch this segment. African Americans are being targeted because we are the most consistent Democratic voting bloc. The GOP knows this. Every Democrat must start speaking with one voice about court reform. 🧵

You’ll find the names and stories of the victims as best as we at L.A. TACO could research them. We hope this list offers a moment to remember these individuals. The full list: lataco.com/ice-death-tr... By Memo Torres, Aisha Wallace-Palomares, Izzy Ramirez, and Odessa Hairapetian

I made a new Public Collectors postcard! The text is extracted from something I posted here about 6 months ago. The design came to me in a dream (or night of bad sleep). Mail them to friends who need a creative nudge to self-publish. They are 4 for $3.00 from halfletterpress.com/leave-a-reco...

SATURDAY, April 25: “Table It: How to Apply to Zine & Art Book Fairs,” a #BlackZineFair 2026 online event via Zoom with Khari Johnson-Ricks, 12 noon EST. withfriends.events/event/cnWnas... #zines #BZF #BZF2026

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/

Congratulations to Shawn(ta) on this appointment!

From ten years ago this week here on the East Side in Milwaukee, WI. It’s hard to believe it has been a decade since Prince died. ☔️

I'm excited to share that we've made a collection of historic Supreme Court Records and Briefs available via @archive.org I've written a blog post where I go into detail about the importance of this collection. blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u...

Tomorrow marks 10 years since Prince passed. For the first time, I gathered nearly two decadesq of my writing, podcasts, talks & more into one curated resource, including playlists, rarities, a review of every video he ever made, and collaborations I did with his estate. anildash.com/2026/04/20/p...

Join @atbw.bsky.social for our next series of webinars about the human costs of AI. We want to create a space where cultural memory workers can engage in critical and caring discussions about the broader impact of AI technology development. Register here: www.archivingtheblackweb.org/events/

Born today in time for Milwaukee Zine Fest! A new edition of From the Punked Out Files of The Queer Zine Archive Project: Up the Academy gathers together two papers I wrote, one in 2017 the other in 2020 that led to me writing a chapter for the new Queer Print Cultures book from U of Toronto Press

Sad, infuriating news! I’ve known many awesome Hampshire grads mostly through zine culture. This is a huge loss.

I'm moderating a panel with my ZFF @miloblue.bsky.social from the @qzap.bsky.social, @jrdarchivist.bsky.social of the DC Punk Archive and students Diya Shah & Alexa Boltaz who edit a campus zine. It's at UMD on Sat 4/18. Join us! We'll talk about important stuff that makes you feel good, not bad.

The synthesizer is, culturally, a transgender instrument.

One of the many joys of collectivism is that QZAP can be at two separate events simultaneously! See you at Milwaukee Public Library 😷

people of the USA: you can now preorder this here if you'd like: sheerspite.bigcartel.com/product/preo...

Flywheel Zine Fest takes place on Saturday April 11th (11am - 4pm), 2026 in #Holyoke, Massachusetts, United States. More info on their event invite: www.facebook.com/events/12738... 📍 Location: Senior Center, 291 Pine St, Holyoke, Massachusetts 01040, United States #zines

"AI is garbage, bro, it gives you wrong answers like half the time and the other half the time makes you stupid." Overheard a middle schooler chastising a fellow student for suggesting they use AI. Whole middle school herd started mocking the AI kid. ...We need to let these kids at the tech bros.

The US Holocaust Memorial Museum under the Trump administration has deleted its teaching materials about links between Nazi racism and the Jim Crow laws: www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

SPECIAL GUEST! Steenz is a St. Louis based cartoonist, professor, and editor. They currently teach at Webster University & SVA while editing independent titles. They’re also Board President of The St. Louis Independent Comics Expo. Get excited to see Steenz (AKA @oheysteenz.bsky.social ) at CAKE 👏

NOW OPEN: Registration for Black Zine Fair 2026, presented by Sojourners for Justice Press, on SAT, MAY 9, 11AM to 6PM, at Powerhouse Arts, 322 Third Ave, #Brooklyn. This is a masked event. Suggested donation: $3.45-$17.66. Pay what you can. withfriends.events/event/WFzHwJ... #zines #BZF2026 #NYC

i put together a bunch of the photos of dive bar bathrooms i’ve taken over the years and compiled them into a FREE digital zine. check it out if you are a little freak like me who loves grimy spaces marked by the passage of countless human dramas merrittk.itch.io/dive-bar-bat...

People can stay mad at me for saying this but if I drive in a circle around a place, I did not actually go to that place. I drove around it. And it’s an odd bit to say people are going to the moon. And it’s definitely propaganda! Don’t participate! We don’t need to lie about it! It’s a flyby! 🔭

The path forward post-Chiles is for states to enact private rights of action for survivors of conversion therapy. Chill the ability for conversion therapists to practice by making it financially unviable due to legal liability.

Want to research trans history? Check our first-ever Trans Collections Guide, launched in 2020! The guide offers researchers insight into trans-related holdings, covering collections up until January 2020. We’ve had lots of additions since, waiting for you to discover! 🔎📖🏳️‍⚧️ https://ow.ly/fEZT50Yzrfv

Caster Semenya is mounting a class action lawsuit against the Olympics for their patently discriminatory ban on trans and intersex athletes

Applications are now open for the 2026 Midwest Perzine Fest, happening Saturday July 11th in Chicago. Apply by April 10th at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F.... #MWPZF #MWPZF2026 #zines #perzines

🌻Planting Seeds: An Indigenous Zine Fest hosted by ZINEmercado and @newberrylibrary.bsky.social on May 16 at The Newberry!🌻 www.newberry.org/calendar/zin...

She changed the nation. Fannie Lou Hamer. nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stor...

if you're only reporting that the IOC has banned transgender athletes, you are missing a huge part of the story: the IOC is now requiring genetic testing for ALL WOMEN ATHLETES. Transphobia hurts everyone.

Harry Potter tattoo regret rate is an order of magnitude higher than regret for Gender Reassignment Surgery and yet no one has been brave enough to suggest we legislate Harry Potter tattoos.

Jane Mertens from Grinnell College Libraries is talking about the reparative metadata project for Haitian art. Here is an article from last year about digitizing Haitian art in Iowa. #ISUDH www.iowapublicradio.org/podcast/talk...

Outstandingly good vintage French & Czech photo booths. fotoautomat.fr

Spring has sprung which means fresh zine fests and art book fairs. If you participate in these events and haven't checked out this sales transparency page, have a look! It might help you set expectations and it would be great for you to share your results/experiences. tinyurl.com/artbookfairsales

Heather and s.e. just added a new piece to our Rebel Well series with kind counsel for tough times to help you move with and through your feelings, show up for people you love when things feel activating, and get support for tough conversations with community. www.scarleteen.com/read/feeli...

Cool to see this in print! I contributed Chapter 11 From Mutiny to Community: Establishing Best Practices for Queer Zine Archives. Thanks to editors Vance Byrd and Javier Samper Vendrell for inviting me to write!

It Grows in the Damp: Treating Mold in Collections #LibraryOfCongress #Preservation 📜📚 blogs.loc.gov/preservation...

Professors, teachers, book clubs (that are real and not fake scams)— if you plan to teach Heavyweight feel free to reach out about getting additional teaching tools including archival materials, or having me talk to your students.

On #tdih 2020, 6 years ago, Breonna Taylor was killed by Louisville police while in her home. 💔 Read more & find teaching resources on role of police throughout U.S. history ⬇️. #SayHerName Follow @aapf.org Mural by HIERO & Thomas Evans in Denver. www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/br...

Kill the [ HAYES CODE ] in your head

Join @edrabinski.bsky.social & Karen Snow & Billey Albina & me for a free webinar, "Critical Cataloging & Librarianship Today: Ethics, Power, and Possibility" on Tuesday April 14th. Part of the Womack Lecture Series sponsored by @fresnostatelibrary.bsky.social. 📚 #critcat

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent. State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes. www.wired.com/story/gramma...