iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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The Internet Archive has a museum for the weirdest art of the early web. 🖼️ It’s called GifCities. Thousands of animated GIFs rescued from the first wave of the web. Glitter. Dancing. Cats. Strange little loops that survived. 💾 Go find your perfect retro GIF 👉 gifcities.org #ToolsYouCanUse

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QZAP - The Queer Zine Archive Project @qzap.bsky.social · 14h

Let's rock out with our twats out! Today's Zine of the Gay is Siren! QZAPper Bella explores this women's music zine from 1992, bringing light to artists like The Slits, Girls in the Nose, and Camille Rocha. gittings.qzap.org/siren/

cover of the 1992 fanzine Siren showing a person with dramatic eye and lip makeup holding a guitar

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Jolie Braun @joliebraun.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Slightly surreal to get to see Janice Radway & Mimi Thi Nguyen (who I've read so much over the years!) talk about zines this afternoon.

Courtney Hunt, Janice Radway, and Mimi Thi Nguyen seated at a table in the front of a room. A slide saying "Punk is a moving target" is overhead.

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Sean Lim @seanlimmn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

WE STAND WITH ILHAN 🩵

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Digital Transgender Archive @transgenderarchive.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This National Coming Out Day we're highlighting Mad Kweer #6 zine, "Breaking Out: In Honor of National Coming Out Day, October 11, 2004." For more info, please visit the DTA via the link in our bio. Courtesy of Queer Zine Archive Project. #TransHistory #TransIsBeautiful #DTA #NationalComingOutDay

The cover of Mad Kweer #6 that includes an image of a closet door with a silhouette shape missing from it.

An excerpt page of the zine titled "Name Shopping", by Dakota. The page includes images of two buttons that say "Industrial Strength Queer" and "I Don't Do Boys" and a photo of two men with piercings touching tongues with the words "Coming Out" imposed.

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Lady Froldmagen (she/her) @zinelib.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

LESLIE FEINBERG PAPERS FINDING AID DROP by @kwooten.bsky.social 📜 📚 ❤️ 🧡 🤍 🩷 💜 archives.lib.duke.edu/catalog/fein...

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Wild Ramp Publishing @wildramppublishing.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Meet our September Chicago Civic Zine Microgrant recipients! We’re so excited to support these Chicago stories. Congratulations to all four grantees! Stay tuned for more zine microgrants in 2027! #ChicagoZines #Zines

Chicago Civic Zine Microgrant recipients

-“3-1-2 step” by Jarius King
-“Everyone Deserves a Home” by Zoey (age 7)
-“Galewood: A Far Northwest Side Story” by Amy Huske
-“Queer Soccer Club” by Kian Straub

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Christopher Wilde @chrisqzap.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Wow! 25 years since Queeruption SF Bay Area!

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Chicago Zine Fest @chicagozinefest.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#CZF2026 is in one week! Join us Saturday October 10th at the @chipublib.bsky.social Harold Washington Library Center. Almost 100 zinesters, an Indigenous zinesters panel, two workshops, & five hands-on activities including a typewriter zoo! 🐭 Details: www.chicagozinefest.org/czf2026.html #zines

Poster for Chicago Zine Fest, with an illustration of a cute mouse wearing glasses and looking at a map, walking through a crowd of people.

Text reads:

CHICAGO ZINE FEST
****
Saturday, October 10th, 2026
11 am-4pm
Free Admission
Harold Washington Library Winter Garden 9th Floor
400 S. State St.
Featuring exhibitors with zines,
self published books, and mini-comics available for sale or trade!
Enjoy workshops,
panel discussions, and readings!
chicagozinefest.org
Masks encouraged!

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Chicago Zine Fest @chicagozinefest.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We need your help! Consider volunteering for a 2-hour shift next Saturday to help make #CZF2026 happen. Tasks include welcoming people to the fest, giving directions, covering tables when zinesters need a break, etc. It's a fun time! 😎 forms.gle/sruJfcojaXQi...

Flyer asking for volunteers for CZF 2026. Text reads: We need your help to make Chicago Zine Fest a success! Volunteer for a 2-hour shift at chicagozinefest.org.

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QZAP - The Queer Zine Archive Project @qzap.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Heyo! We'll be at the Fox Cities Zine and Book Arts festival this Sunday, October 4. NEENAH PUBLIC LIBRARY 240 E. WISCONSIN AVE NEENAH, WI SCHEDULE OF EVENTS: Artist Booths, 12:30-3:30pm Zine Making Workshop, 12:30-3:30pm Panel Talk, 1-2pm Show & Tell, 2:30-3:30pm

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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

New zine dropping next week at #JCLC2026 (the Joint Conference of Librarians of Color) in Spokane. If you'll be there, stop by the Program for Cooperative Cataloging booth in the exhibit hall to pick up a copy! #critcat 🎵📚😎

Zine cover with an image of an album record and the text "Fixing the Record: A PCC Playlist of DEI in Metadata".

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sometimes I think about where we would be as a culture today if #MeToo in 2017 had radicalized more straight men into fighting sexual abuse instead of creating a culture of "oh god don't get me CANCELED" and "fake accusations" paranoia and resentment

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

bluesky does not seem to really be talking about this but today Stevie Wonder unleased 4 songs that didn't make "Songs in the Key of Life." music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Songs In The Key Of Life - The EP

EP • Stevie Wonder

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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If you've got some time in the next few days, the September #Wikipedia editathon to show solidarity with the new Wikimedia union is behind its goal of editing 10,000 articles. You can help by registering, finding a relevant article, & making it a little better! 📚 meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:W...

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Event:WikiProject Organized Labour Month Online Campaign - Meta-Wiki

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Nashville Comic Arts Festival @nashcomicartfest.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Our first workshop, led by special guest @oheysteenz.bsky.social - Gender Self Determination Zines: What does queerness mean to you and how does it affect your identity? How can we spread education on gender affirming care? Tell your story and come together as a community to make identity zines!

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 26/09/2026

You can help build the library. 🏛️ Have digital materials you’re allowed to share? Upload them to the Internet Archive so other people can discover and use them. 📷 A photograph. 🎙️ A recording. 📄 A document. 💾 A piece of digital history. Upload your first item 👇 archive.org/upload 🧵

Four "Tools You Can Use" Upload campaign tiles arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top left, a cream and yellow tile with a folder icon reading "Upload" and "Contribute digital materials that you have the right to share." Top right, a cream tile with bold black text: "Upload digital materials to help preserve and share knowledge with people around the world." Bottom left, a cream tile with a screenshot of the Internet Archive's Upload files page, with the "UPLOAD" nav link and "Choose files to upload" button circled in red. Bottom right, a cream tile with bold black text, "Contribute digital materials that you have the right to share," and a small multicolor line-art icon of the Internet Archive's columned building.

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Christopher Wilde @chrisqzap.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Virgos are at the height of their powers on their birthday!! ♍️✊🏼

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Dylan Lewis @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Training rare book catalogers like I’m leading an insurgence when I tell them we aren’t restricted to whatever the fuck is happening at LC and we can use a lot of credible thesauri and CVs like homosaurus and RBMS

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Amelia Smith @nturavrgcistory.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In the 1970s, the Canadian Gay Archives was approached by the Ontario Archives to take over some of the CGA's material. It was a moment of deep reflection. In the end, they chose to reject the offer out of fear that a homophobic government would decide to eliminate it, a la Nazi Germany.

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University of Toronto Press @uoftpress.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

New season, new reads. Our #BacktoSchool Sale is happening now! 20% off our entire website + free shipping through Sept 30 (textbooks excluded). Shop now and start your fall reading list with savings: bit.ly/4hlTlx1 #CanadianBooks

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sheer spite press @sheerspite.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

OTTAWA: i'll be doing two launch events for The Politics of Lonely, both on Saturday, October 24: ✨ signing at @octopusbooks.ca ✨ launch/reading/convo with @alexisshotwell.bsky.social and Adrienne Row-Smith at The Grove (location changed for capacity reasons!) sheerspite.ca/blog/2026/08...

saturday October 24 11 am - 1 pm - Ottawa Book Signing
I'll be sitting out front of Octopus Books (116 Third Avenue at Bank St.) to sign books and chat. Come say hi! Rain date Sunday October 25, 11-1.

saturday October 24, 5 -7 pm
Ottawa Book Launch & Friendship Forum with Alexis Shotwell & Adrienne Row-Smith
NEW LOCATION: The Grove, 18 Louisa Street Unit 280
fundraiser for the Ottawa Trans Library
registration not required to order the book or anything else for pickup, use code OTTAWALAUNCH at sheerspite.ca :)

Alexis Shotwell is a queer SF nerd, functional potter, teacher, and writer, currently living on unceded Algonquin land. Author of Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times (about why purity won’t save us) and the forthcoming Liberation is Other People (about getting together to solve big problems in which we are complicit), she is also finishing a book about Ursula K. Le Guin’s anarchism and why it’s so great.

Adrienne Row-Smith (she/her) is a Queer Black visual specialist based in so-called Ottawa, working across photo and video to create bold, impactful imagery. Rooted in a deep commitment to authenticity and accessibility in media, she co-founded The Grove, which is an interdisciplinary art and community space offering affordable rentals and sliding-scale events. Through both her creative practice and community work, Adrienne aims to build a space and working body that reflects the elements of care, resistance, and belonging, where disenfranchised voices are not only heard but celebrated.

Lee Arden is the author of The Politics of Lonely: Why Is Friendship So Hard?, a book that takes friendship out of an individualistic context and argues that we’re struggling with our friendships because we live in the decaying ruins of colonial capitalism. Lee also runs the small press and zine distro Sheer Spite Press and has written lots of zines, including PALS: The Radical Possibilities of Friendship, which formed the basis for this new book.

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Milo @miloblue.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I saw that UWM is hiring a Public Services Librarian to work in the American Geographic Society Library on our campus. It's a really cool space and collection! Milwaukee is neat! www.higheredjobs.com/admin/detail... #librarians #libraryjobs #glamjobs

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May-lee Chai (she/her) @mayleechai.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Tomorrow! My book launch for My Hungry Ghosts with CA Poet Laureate Lee Herrick at @citylightsbooks.bsky.social 9/22/26 at 7 pm PT: www.eventbrite.com/e/may-lee-ch...

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May-lee Chai in conversation with Lee Herrick

May-lee Chai discusses her new book "MY HUNGRY GHOSTS: ESSAYS & INCANTATIONS"

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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We are hiring for several positions in the UW Information School, including a tenure-track position in Library and Information Science. Please share with anyone interested in these areas! Deadline October 30. Job: apply.interfolio.com/192127

Screenshot of job ad that reads: "The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to our Library and Information Science (LIS) research, with areas of relevance including, but not limited to:

Libraries - Academic, Digital, or Public

Librarianship - Leadership, Innovation, or Education

Information Technology - Ethics, Public Interest, and Justice-Oriented Approaches

Data - Archives, Public / Open, and Humanistic or Scientific Applications

Artificial Intelligence - Public Interest, Library or Cultural Heritage-Centered, Open-Source Applications in Information Institutions "

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Xtra @xtramagazine.com · 19/09/2026

Citing queer histories, radical theory and personal anecdotes, Lee Arden’s “The Politics of Lonely” delves into the structural causes of our loneliness. xtramagazine.com/culture/book...

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How do we sustain friendships in a world on fire? | Xtra Magazine

Lee Arden’s book “The Politics of Lonely” delves into the structural causes of our loneliness

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Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The Muppets have to put on a show to save the Kennedy Center. There you go, Disney, that's your premise.

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Jason Chavez @jchavezmpls.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Tomorrow at 9:30am, we will gather in the Council Chambers at Minneapolis City Hall (350 S 5th St, Minneapolis, MN 55415) to honor the life and legacy of Karen Clark, the first openly lesbian member to serve in the Minnesota Legislature, and a fighter for LGBTQIA+ rights, environmental justice,.. 1/

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Christopher Wilde @chrisqzap.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is one of my all-time favourite queer zines! ❤️‍🔥

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Marc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Librarians! Zine-Makers! This new Temporary Services zine (made with @doormouse12.bsky.social) is for you! We interviewed 4 public librarians that maintain zine collections and the result is a beautiful 44 page booklet. See and learn how they do it! $10.00 (or $3.00 PDF) from www.halfletterpress.com

From the front and back cover of the booklet:

Public Librarians Discuss Zine Collections

We asked librarians at four public libraries to talk about their library’s zine collection. What advice can they share with zine makers that want to get their work into a public library, or librarians that want to start a collection at their library? Was it hard to convince others that zines are a resource that the library should collect? What collecting models did they follow? How did they build the collection?

Interviewees:

Tim Devin / Somerville Public Library
(Somerville, MA)
Angi Brzycki & Ziba Pérez /
Los Angeles Public Library
(Los Angeles, CA)
Alicia Tate / Multnomah County Library
(Portland, OR)
Alina Josan / The Free Library of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, PA)

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Wisconsin Watch @wisconsinwatch.org · 14/09/2026

🧵 Wisconsin voters will see three proposed constitutional amendments on their Nov. 3 ballots — covering the governor’s partial veto power, religious gatherings during emergencies and diversity, equity and inclusion programs. Read our guide or follow below ⬇️ : wisconsinwatch.org/2026/09/wisc...

Announcement encouraging voters to learn about three Wisconsin constitutional amendments on the Nov. 3 ballot, showing a governor signing a document at a desk while children and adults look on.

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Samantha Puc 🍉 @theverbalthing.com · 13/09/2026

DENVER ZINE FEST IS TOMORROW! 11-5 at Denver Public Library. I'll be there with zines, stickers, and free resources! Come say hi!

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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Big congrats to Jamez Terry! grief poet, reverend, and devoted zinester See You In the Mail (out yesterday!) is your perfect last soft summer read

See You In the Mail
Jamez Terry

cover: a man is seen checking his mailbox while another reads a letter

"I am absolutely enamored with this book. A tender tribute to zine culture and punk community, it is accordingly a meditation on creativity, queerness, and slowing down enough to appreciate not just love through snail mail but all the small, beautiful details of our world. I never wanted to leave its soft, inspiring embrace."
-ANITA KELLY, author of Something Wild & Wonderful

As long as Greg has a typewriter, strong coffee, and a pocket full of postage stamps, he's alright with the world. His zine, LONG WALKS ON THE BEACH, parodies Craigslist personal ads an ode to the sweet absurdity of public declarations of desire. But hidden somewhere in each issue, there's one quiet ad that reveals something of Greg's actual self. No one has ever found him there. Until a letter arrives from a reader called "M."

Their correspondence swiftly becomes the most honest relationship Greg has ever had, but M, a musician, seems to retreat when Greg suggests they meet. As Greg gets closer to the truth, he's forced to confront the walls around his own heart. Set in the halls of mid-2000's zine festivals, at underground music venues, and on the rocky, moody coast of Maine, See You in the Mail is a feel-good queer romance about the radical intimacy of being truly seen.

"A slow-burn love story about falling for someone who really sees you.

Beautifully intimate and inventive."

-KIRKUS REVIEWS

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Gina Murrell @ginamurrell1.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026

Today at work, I got a free zine: George Jackson Speaking: From Dachau, Soledad Prison, California. It’s a piece by Jackson, “smuggled out on roll-your-own cigarette paper at great risk to the prison’s one sympathetic guard” and originally published in the Village Voice, Sept 1970. #abolition #zines

A black and white zine titled George Jackson Speaking: From Dachau, Soledad Prison, California. The cover art—Jackson’s smiling face next to two rows of solemn African faces—is “Flowers for George Jackson” by Elizabeth Cattlet, 1975.

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sheer spite press @sheerspite.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

it's not a self-help book, but it is pretty opinionated. The Politics of Lonely: Why is Friendship So Hard? is officially out today! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

$Three pieces of advice from The Politics of Lonely (swipe to see one more that got cut from the finished book) - “Each of us needs a lot of people, and we need them very badly.” - “It is worth considering whether you might let your friendships inconvenience you a fraction as much as your job does.” - “Kill the Margaret Thatcher in your head” out today, 2026-09-10$

stated reason for not writing a self-help book: “I believe that the message that you can fix all your problems on an individual level implies that they’re your fault to begin with.”

actual reason for not writing a self-help book: i do not give good advice :)

screenshot from the book manuscript, where i have written "have sex with one of your friends! just kidding.... unless?", with a comment asking "too unhinged?" and my very patient editor replying "probably, haha!"

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

You know what I'd like? I'd like cis Democrats to say "thank you." "Thank you for being the moral center of our movement." "Thank you for refusing to go quietly." "Thank you for fighting ICE. Thank you for forming coalitions with other communities under threat."

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Kat Rohn @rohnkat.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

There are 25.6 million LGBTQ+ adults in the US including roughly 5 million gender diverse folks. We are real voters. We're also real people. And we deserve candidates, campaigns, and parties that treat us as such - not as disposable talking points. We can help you win. And we will. Stand with us.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Happy 60th anniversary to the brilliant universe of Star Trek, and all who made it possible. Live long and prosper. 🖖

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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

📣 Brand new zine published to celebrate Labor Day: "Don’t Cross the Picket Line : Strike Solidarity for Beginners." Free to print or read online at violetbfox.info/dontcross/. This 24-page zine was created for anyone who's *not* part of a union and doesn't know much about unions or strikes.

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Christopher Wilde @chrisqzap.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

❤️ Venus Envy!!! Have fun in Halifax!!

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sheer spite press @sheerspite.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

book is out this week! if you know anyone in halifax tell them to come say hi! tabling at the halifax art book fair friday and saturday! sunday is my FIRST BOOK LAUNCH with cherished friend @theghostpine.bsky.social at @venusenvyhfx.bsky.social! venusenvy.ca/collections/...

Halifax!

Friday Sep 11, Saturday Sep 12, 11-6: tabling at halifax art book fair.

saturday sep 12, 10-6: Halifax Anarchist Book Fair: I won’t be there but Fernwood will have my book and Venus Envy will have my zines :) I bet it will be nice!

Sunday sep 13, 6:30 pm: Book Launch & Friendship Forum with Jeff Miller, at Venus Envy Registration required Masks required & provided.

Pictures of Lee's book "The Politics of Lonely" and Jeff's book "Temporary Palaces", with a photo of Lee and Jeff hugging, each of them is labelled with their name and the caption "(WE ARE FRIENDS)"

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Lady Froldmagen (she/her) @zinelib.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The Library of Congress can move quickly when it wants to classweb.org/tentative-su.... This is from the September tentative LCSH list. They moved swiftly to overwrite Denali and the Gulf of America, too. So much for librarians being freedom fighters. 📚

screenshot of proposed subject heading change:

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Ontario, Lake (N.Y. and Ont.) CHANGE HEADING

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America, Lake (N.Y. and Ont.) [sp 85094825 ]

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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Michigan State University Library is hosting the second Common Knowledge Zine Fest on Sun Oct 18th during their Open Access Week. CKZF asks: what can #zines teach us about creating & sharing knowledge outside traditional channels? Apply by Sept 20th: www.cognitoforms.com/LICZ/CommonK...

Flyer for Common Knowledge Zine Fest, with a drawing of a brain and text reading "Applications open! 15+ spots for research and nonfiction zinesters".

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