Yes, the zine collection has finally moved down to the first floor of the library!  The zines are now located in our new (to us) wooden bookshelf, which you can find between the Research Help & Media Services offices!  Zines are boxed up in alphabetical order by title in lovely translucent plastic containers – which are also labeled to make it easier for you, the zine reader, to locate zines!  However, we’re not done yet.  Also coming soon:

• A nicer looking sign!
• New zines!
• & more!

Saiya Miller (who hosted a zine event here at Hampshire back in April) is returning to the Five Colleges tonight along with Liza Bley for a reading & discussion of Not Your Mother’s Meatloaf: A Sex Education Comic Book.  It will be held from 4:30-6:00pm at the Five College Women’s Studies Research Center, located at 83 College St. at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley.  Below is more information about the event:

“Not Your Mother’s Meatloaf: A Sex Education Comic Book brings together a selection of comics by various artists addressing issues of sex and sexuality. The collection aims to provide a new approach to the way we teach about sexuality; a more accessible, interactive tool to help share knowledge about sex; one that demystifies the facts and speaks frankly about experiences whose lessons may fall into the grey areas. The comic format makes it possible for people to open up and talk about often embarrassing, sometimes even painful experiences in a way that is humorous and engaging.

You can go to the Five College Women’s Studies Research Center website for more information.  They’ve apparently set up a live stream of the event, so check it out!

We’ve just processed a huge batch of zines that have been donated, including issues 1-5 of Not Your Mother’s Meatloaf.  Saiya Miller, co-editor the zine, donated the zines after the zine workshop she hosted back in April here in the library, & they are now available for your perusal.  Here is a complete listing of the latest additions:

• Arts & Crafts Revolution
• Anarchist Survival Guide For Understanding Gestapo Swine Interrogation Mind Games
• Assholes Politicians Economists & Cops
• The Best Of The Yellow Rake Zine
• Bread
• Bread & Puppet: Uprising Of the Beast After the Good Life Fails
• Bunnyhop #8
• Bunnyhop #10
• Chainbreaker #2
• Clitical Mass
• D.I.Y. Guide II
• Educational Tourist
• Fascism
• Frozen Empty Violence Mind
• Landscape and Desire: Bread and Puppet Pageants in the 1990s
• A Lecture To Art Students At Suny/Purchase New York
• The Loin’s Mouth #2
• The Match #107
• Not Your Mother’s Meatloaf
• Not Your Mother’s Meatloaf #2: Firsts
• Not Your Mother’s Meatloaf #3: Bodies
• Not Your Mother’s Meatloaf #4: Health
• Not Your Mother’s Meatloaf #5: Age
• The Old Art Of Puppetry In the New World Order
• Processed World #30
• Processed World #2.001
• Proclamation Indignation #22
• The Radicality Of the Puppet Theater
• Razorcake #70
• Razorcake #71
• Razorcake #72
• Razorcake #74
• A Rough Guide To  Bicycle Maintenance
• Slingshot #106
• Transcendence Transcendence #1
• Transcendence Transcendence #2
• Turning Failure Into Ideology
• The Yellow Rake #16
• The Yellow Rake #21
• The Yellow Rake #25: Back In the Saddle
• The Yellow Rake #27