Papercut Zine Library

Queer and Trans Zine Exhibition

kimberly — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:54:58 +0000

We will be displaying some of our favorite queer and trans zines at PCZL until April 1st! Come check out what we have in store, and don’t forget to visit our friends over at the Queer Zine Archive Project.

Papercut Visits Gately Youth Center

drawmedy — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:46:22 +0000

Papercut was happy to be invited to Gately Youth Center in North Cambridge to talk about zine making with young people in their girls’ zine project. This awesome group has been working on zine content ever since seeing the work of a local zinester several months ago; each week the participants brainstorm words related to middle school, pick two words out of a hat, and make pages recording their thoughts, ideas, and experiences. Papercut librarians Kimberly and Anna brought some examples of different ways to approach zine making with images, words, and book arts. We are looking forward to cataloging the Gately zine when it is completed!

Over the past year we have enjoyed working with young people and teachers in classrooms and after schools. Contact us if you are interested in having a zine workshop visit your school or program!

Our benefit show/tour kickoff last Friday!

kimberly — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:33:14 +0000

We’d like to give a HUGE thank you to Gil and the rest of the Free Spirit dudes for organizing a great kickoff show for them and Disengage. Kids attending the show brought lots of rad one-page zines (and a few full zines as well) to share — and we raised $350 for Papercut! Other bands that played: Our Side, Bloodkrow Butcher, Pegasus and Step Forward — thanks guys for playing some awesome sets and bringing everyone out!

Come to the library today to see a few of the zines I picked up Friday, and be sure to check out photos at Future-Breed.com ( http://ow.ly/8DkCh )

1/20 Papercut Benefit at the Democracy Center!

kimberly — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:44:13 +0000

Gil from Free Spirit put this awesome gig together, and is putting some of the proceeds towards the zine library! Go and bring a stack of zines (that you made) and you get $2 off the door price.

Yearly/Sustaining Memberships!

kimberly — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 20:34:02 +0000

So, I mentioned these fancy new cards briefly in my last post, but I want to show off mine! This is the front; on the back there is room for our contact info and yours.

Again, this does not change anybody’s current membership and we will continue to accept one-time-donations for memberships. If you’d like to switch over, though, it is greatly appreciated! We are asking just $12/year ~ basically, a dollar each month for access to nearly 15,000 zines!

Special thanks to Chelsea Dirck for drawing this year’s cards! :)

Sunday December 4: Bay State Badass bike zine release party!

Betty Slutsky — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 03:23:16 +0000

Created in the latter days of September 2011, the lady-centric Bay State Badass zine has been inducing lulz, inspiring reflection, and spreading knowledge of bike laws and safety not only throughout the Commonwealth, but the country. Entertaining and educating from Cambridge to Brookline, from Minneapolis to Kentucky, the Badass has received rave reviews from over a hundred friends and randos, and elicited approval from at least two lawyers.

So here comes this event!

3PM, Sunday December 4th at Papercut/Lorem Ipsum
1299 Cambridge Street 02139
If you ride your bike and wear your helmet to the party, you get a Papercut sticker!

In case you didn’t get one at a Critical Mass ride, proffered to you at an intersection, or thrown into your bike basket when you weren’t looking, Team Smash Em Up now invites you in from the cold to experience the Badass.

Music!
Funz!
Foodz!
Frenz!
BADASS KNOW YOUR RIGHTS ON A BIKE PRESENTATION!
A zine for every attendee!
Accepting submissions for a second issue.
Also accepting $5± for Papercut.

What people are saying about the Bay State Badass:

I wish I could find a way to secretly pass this out to the teenage girls I teach bike safety to! – JP
Woah, rly?! This is amazing! -Cambridge
This is great! The alternating internet troll and librarian dialects make me swoon. – Ohio
I lolled; I will forgive you for the Katy Perry references. – Pittsburgh
0mg this zine! Lulz. – Ithaca
Immediate laffs – Delaware
This is so great. I want to call her and tell her how great this is, but she’s probably asleep. – reported but not confirmed in Allston
Lulz, amazing! – Everyone

Now Open! Our New Space, Hours and Changes to Memberships

kimberly — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 21:11:11 +0000

A little late, but we just wanted to thank everyone for coming out o the opening! We had a great crowd come out to see the new space, as well as some amazing performers including our friends The Low Tide, Hi-5 Magazine, The Inman Review, and new friends We Avalanche and Adrian Emberley. We already feel so welcome here in our new space in Inman Square!

Zine-Making Space

Our new space now features a zine-making area, where folks can utilize our typewriter, old magazines and other craft supplies to create their own DIY publications!

Hours

The hours that we are open have stayed the same. Although the bookstore will have their own hours, we do ask hat patrons do not take zines outside of the library without a librarian formally checking it out for you.

Membership

New to the library? We are now offering yearly memberships for folks who would like to help us become more sustainable in the long-term. We will also allow folks to sign up as members using the old, one-time-donation system — and this does not affect the membership that you have now.

We hope to see ya’ll at our new space soon! Be sure to sign up for our listserve to be alerted bout upcoming events and workshops.

Opening Party Announced!

Papercut Zine Library — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 12:45:29 +0000

The Papercut Zine Library has moved into Lorem Ipsum Books! Come join us for a night of celebration; complete with music, readings, friends, and general merriment.

The Lucy Parsons Center is holding their opening earlier in the day, so we’ll also have a group bikeride from JP to Cambridge. Don’t miss out!

RSVP on Facebook!

Moving 15,000 Zines about 2.5 Miles Down the Road

Papercut Zine Library — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 05:13:47 +0000

So we’re about 1/2, or maybe 1/3 of the way there, depending on how you look at it. The majority of our catalogued zines are safe and sound at our new location, with just a few hundred zines and the furniture to take care of over the next few days.

It’s sad to see the art come down; off the shelves and off of the walls. Our space in Somerville has awarded us with some amazing opportunities over the last year and a half, and we do not take this for granted. We hope that our friends over in East Somerville will keep checking out their zines, and that all of our patrons will see how we continue to grow and flourish in our new space.

We want to thank our volunteers, once again, for all of the help and support during this move. We could not have done it without you!

Sincerely,

Kimberly/PCZL

Saturday 7PM: Closing Party for Prison Art Show at Papercut Zine Library!

Betty Slutsky — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 02:26:13 +0000

As you may have heard, the walls of the Papercut Zine Library in Somerville are currently displaying many fine works of incarcerated artists, as sent to local prison abolition/prisoner support groups Boston Anarchist Black Cross and Black and Pink. These pieces are all for sale, btdubs, and for entirely reasonable prices.

As you may have also heard, Papercut Zine Library is leaving Somerville at the end of the month and moving into the Lorem Ipsum bookstore in Inman Square in Cambridge, aspiring to be operational again November 1.

Between Papercut, Boston ABC, and Black and Pink, here is an opportunity to show some love for three longstanding projects– all in the same room. Though their focuses and work differ, all do concrete work to share and avail information, develop relationships, and generally build a new world in the shell of the old. So turn out and earn bragging rights for being present at one of the few remaining hurrahs of the Papercut Zine Library at 226 Pearl Street, 02145. Join us this Saturday the 17th from 7-10pm in celebrating the end of this joint exhibit of magnificent, thought-provoking, and frequently fun art! There will be refreshments, some live music, and hopefully you!

Photo by Shawn Musgrave at the Dig

Glitter!