This panel brings together library workers who create, collect, and circulate zines as tools of resistance. How can zine collections subvert institutional norms? What does it mean to center the undercommons in academic settings (is it even possible)? What tensions arise when radical materials enter the stacks? We'll explore zine libraries as political acts, and what they teach us about access, labor, and memory. 

Moderated by Mike Olson, an academic librarian who makes counterculture art and information activism zines, including turning his published scholarship on critical visual literacies in social movements created from interviews with artist-activists discussing their visual resistance practices into zines he tables at fests to collect more material for the Zine Reading Room. 

GALLERY 3