I doubt when people like Tobi Vail and Kathleen Hanna were photocopying their zines that helped build the riot grrrl movement, they ever thought their zines would end up in a museum someday. Unknown to me, the Museum of Modern Art has a Department of Prints and Illustrated Books which includes lots of zines. I’m not sure if they are on display, but if they are I’d love to go see them. Below is the curator of said department, Gretchen Wagner, talking about the essay she wrote in the book Modern Women: Women at The Museum of Modern Art on the importance of zines.

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