Surviving Barnard: Student Disorientation Guides at Barnard and Columbia
Now on view!
The Barnard Archives and Special Collections are pleased to announce Surviving Barnard: Student Disorientation Guides at Barnard and Columbia, an exhibit that explores and celebrates the disorientation zine tradition and its predecessors. Surviving Barnard centers the disorientation guide in intergenerational campus organizing and networks of student solidarity. The exhibit features student-made zines and alternate print pieces housed at the Barnard Archives and the Zine Library.
Spanning the years 1949-2024, Surviving Barnard surveys early instances of student-made orientation booklets, as well as contextualizes the political and community-driven need for an alternate, student-led orientation. Surviving Barnard receives its title from Reorientation 1971: an undergrad guide to surviving Barnard, an early alternate orientation project born out of the National Student Strike of May, 1970. (Read more about it in Why We Strike through Barnard Digital Collections.) Visitors may also engage with the most recent iterations of the disorientation zine by grabbing their own copy of the Class of 2028 Admitted Students Guide and the 2024-2025 Barnard/Columbia Disorientation Zine.
August 19 - December 10, 2024
Barnard Archives and Special Collections, Hope L. and John L. Furth Archives Reading Room
423 Milstein Center, 3009 Broadway
