In spring 2020, when much of the nation was locked down because of COVID-19, Jolie Braun, curator of modern literature and manuscripts for Ohio State Libraries, began noticing that people were telling the stories of their quarantine experiences in a distinctive way: through one-off or small-batch, self-produced zines. Braun started gathering them. By the beginning of November, Ohio State Libraries had amassed a collection of nearly 90 COVID zines from around the world.
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