Jennifer Bleyer Zinester Ephemera Collection, 1992-1995

Abstract:
This collection contains various zines and zine production, advertisement, and distribution materials created by Jennifer Bleyer, Bleyer's correspondence, journals, and other zine-related ephemera.
Extent:
0.84 Linear Feet 2 full hollinger boxes
Language:
English .
Scope and content:

This collection contains flats for zines, journals with writing drafts and journal entries and school notes, letters, ephemera, zines (by Jennifer and others), mini-zine advertisements, Cleveland riot grrrl and other riot grrrl materials, copies of zines, gray kinkos copy card counter, chinger (payphone scammer device), and 2 floppy discs.

Biographical / historical:

Jennifer Bleyer is an independent journalist and editor living in Brooklyn, NY. She is originally from Chicago, IL, Detroit, MI and Cleveland, OH. She attended Columbia University, and in the 1990s and early 2000s published the Jewish punk zine Mazel-Tov Cocktail and the riot grrrl zine Googlebox before founding Heeb Magazine in 2002. She has written and edited for Psychology Today, The New York Times, Slate, Sallon, Tablet, Cosmopolitan, The Christian Science Monitor, Monocle, Babble, The Forward, Self, Real Simple, City Pages, The Atlantic and The Washington Post as well as several anthologies. She has also taught journalism at Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University. She donated her zine collection to Barnard Archives and Special Collections in 2020.

Access and use

Restrictions:

This collection has no restrictions.

Terms of access:

Permission to publish material from the collection must be requested from the Barnard Archives and Special Collections. The Barnard Archives and Special Collections approves permission to publish that which it physically owns; the responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

Reproductions can be made for research purposes.

Preferred citation:

Name of Collection, Date(s); Box and Folder; Barnard Archives and Special Collections, Barnard Library, Barnard College.

Location of this collection:
Barnard Archives & Special Collections
Milstein Center for Teaching and Learning 423
Barnard College
3009 Broadway
New York, NY 10027, USA
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