Disruption in the Stacks: Using Zines to Make Space for Creativity, Outreach, and Social Justice

Through the process of duoethnography, Cunningham and Chiu engage in a shared dialogue that critically investigates their relationships with zines and how they have individually and collabo­ratively utilized zine libraries, zine workshops, zines in library instruc­tion and organizing zine festivals. These zine activities seek to actively disrupt the Eurocentric canon and not merely diversify, but recenter the canon. Zines as primary source narratives from Black, Indigenous, and people of color, as well as art objects, workshops and classroom engagement pushes the canon to refocus. The following discussion will use the Reed Zine Library at Reed College located in Portland, Or­egon as its primary illustration.