Feminist, Queer, and Trans Artists’ Books and Zines in the Sloane Art Library Collection

<div class="page" title="Page 1"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Contemporary artists&rsquo; books and zines are interdisciplinary artforms that engage in intimate, handmade, and often subversive methods to explore identity, community, and social change. In this paper, I introduce artists&rsquo; books and zines as agents of social change, and explore the role they play in feminist, queer, and trans identity, community, and culture formation. I conclude each section of my literature review with a list of questions intended to urge researchers, professors, and librarians to reimagine the role of artists&rsquo; books and zines as tools of feminist praxis, both in their collection&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: TimesNewRomanPS; font-style: italic;">and&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">in the classroom. A guide to feminist, queer, and trans artists&rsquo; books and zines in Sloane Art Library collection is included in the final section. The guide can be navigated by title, and includes subject headings relevant to gender and sexuality, details of the printing and binding method, and a brief critical synopsis blended with description of the work from the artist.</span> </div> </div> </div>