Zines Forever! DIY Publications and Disability Justice explores how zines have been used to share experiences of disability and disabled identity. This display showcases the power of radical self-publishing, featuring zines in all shapes and sizes—from handwritten mini-zines to tactile editions using braille and audio.

Drawing from Wellcome Collection’s growing archive of over 1300 health-themed zines, this exhibition highlights the role of zine-making in disability activism, political resistance, and community building.

Visitors are encouraged to engage with almost all of the zines on display, providing a relaxed, inclusive environment for reading and reflection. Feeling inspired? You’ll also have the opportunity to create your own zine!

Tuesday – Sunday: 10:00 AM – 8:00 PM

Special Event – Discussion: Transnational Zines
· Date: Saturday 22 March 2025
· Time: 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM

Accessibility Adaptions:

Audio-described and speech-to-text online, large-print guides, transcripts, and magnifiers are provided in the gallery.

Curators:

This exhibition is curated by Dr Lea Cooper (artist and zinemaker) and Adam Rose (Assistant Curator, Wellcome Collection).

Artwork : Embodied: A memoir comic, Rae Lanzerotti, 2023. Prompts for zine making for disability & chronic illness, Vicky Stevenson and Ellie Page, 2019. Dependant Alarm, Chloe Heffernan, 2021. Did it help? Getting an autism diagnosis in early middle age, Heena, 2023. Believing: a zine about love and loss among the mad, Rachel Rowan Olive, 2023. Photo: Thomas Farnetti, Wellcome Collection, 2024.