Mulberry Zine Library is a free, volunteer-run zine browsing library on Monacan land in so-called Charlottesville, Virginia founded in 2026.

Our Mission

Mulberry Zine Library aims to:

• Center the stories and intellectual genealogies of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and other people of color); queer/trans; disabled; and/or incarcerated folks, particularly those of marginalized genders and with liberatory visions.
• Offer resources (materials, space, and references) for creative self-expression and radical political education via zine-making. 

Our Values

MZL embraces the zine as an expansive medium and honors zines as a critical mechanism of information dissemination within and beyond movement spaces.

MZL is committed to abolition as a creative project that rejects empire, borders, and assimilation and centers community autonomy, stewardship, and liberation.

MZL strives to cultivate access intimacy.

“Access intimacy at once recognizes and understands the relational and human quality of access, while simultaneously deepening the relationships involved. It moves the work of access out of the realm of only logistics and into the realm of relationships and understanding disabled people as humans, not burdens. … Access intimacy is interdependence in action. It is an acknowledgement that what is most important is not whether or not things are perfectly accessible, or whether or not there is ableism; but rather what the impact of inaccessibility and ableism is on disabled people and our lives.”

— Mia Mingus (blog post)

Collection Development Policy

Mulberry Zine Library primarily collects zines that center the stories and intellectual genealogies of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and other people of color); queer/trans; disabled; and/or incarcerated folks, particularly those of marginalized genders and with liberatory visions. Our zines are typically those at the lower end of the production level scale, costing $10 or less.

Additionally, Mulberry Zine Library is interested in collecting ephemera that highlights historic and contemporary social movements rooted in and around so-called Charlottesville, though space constraints dictate the kinds of materials we are able to accept.

Questions? Comments?

Please send a note to mulberryzinelibrary@proton.me.