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Zines at Schlesinger Library

Images from Schlesinger Library

Image of the cover of the zine We Are Not White Lesbians, two people standing next to each other. Person on fhte left is wearing a black t-shirt with the words "Team Brown" and the person on the right wears a white t-shirt with the words "Nobdy knows I'm a transexual."

 

Image of the cover of the zine, It's not you. I just need space. (interpanetary letters of love and rejection), with a dark blue background,the icon of an atom, and four circles representing planets.

 

Image of the cover of the zine Esperanza, with four hand-drawn flowers on a light green background.

 

Image of the cover of the zine, The Nizhoni Beat, with black and grey tiger stripes in the background, and a person in a skirt dancing.


Image of the cover of the zine, Motor City Kitty, with two small girls sitting in front of an image of the moon.

 

Image of the cover of the zine, Damaged mentality, with a reflective rainbow background, and black cross-hatched pattern on top.

 

Image of the cover of the zine, no better than apples issue eleven, with a white background and two rows of seven tall thin pine trees.

 

Image of the cover of the zine, Fertile ground, with a drawing of two women walking through the woods. Some trees are drawn with feminine features.

Health and Hygiene

Topics such as menstruation, birth control, and sexual health are frequently featured in the Schlesinger's zine collection. The materials often provide an alternative or supplementary approach that goes beyond mainstream understandings of these areas, including advice on self-managed abortion, critiques of commercial menstrual products, and frank information about traditionally taboo topics such as sexually transmitted infections.

To find zines like these, try a HOLLIS search using the form/genre term "zines" plus a subject term like "health and hygiene" or "birth control" or "menstruation" or "sexual health."

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