2023-03-14 Guide to the Tenacious: Art & Writings By Women in Prison Zines, 2002-2020 SPEC.RARE.0316 Finding aid prepared by Cate Putirskis Ohio State University Libraries Special Collections
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2023 March This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2023-03-20T10:42-0400 English Describing Archives: A Content Standard Tenacious: Art & Writings By Women in Prison Zines SPEC.RARE.0316 Ohio State University Libraries Special Collections 0.8 Cubic feet 2002-2020 Tenacious: Art & Writings By Women in Prison Zines contains a complete run of the zine (issues 1-44), as well as a commemorative catalog created to accompany the zines. Tenacious is a zine comprised of writings, poetry, and art created by women who, at the time of their submission, were currently or formerly incarcerated in the United States. Many submissions address challenges encountered by these women while in prison, including: access to health care, being HIV-positive, furthering their education, sexual harrassment, pregnancy, adoption, being a mother, and general living conditions. The first issue was published in the summer 2002, and the final issue in the summer of 2020. (2) 5" letter document boxes English Law, Victoria, 1977- Arrangement of Materials

Materials are arranged in issue number order; a commemerative catalog created to accompany this box set is located after the final issue.

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RARE.2023.0014: Purchase, 2021 October

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 Historical Note

From 2002 through 2020, Victoria Law published Tenacious: Art & Writings By Women in Prison, a zine comprised of writings, poetry, and art created by women who, at the time of their submission, were currently or formerly incarcerated in the United States. Many submissions address challenges encountered by these women while in prison, including: access to health care, being HIV-positive, furthering their education, sexual harrassment, pregnancy, adoption, being a mother, and general living conditions. The first issue was published in the summer 2002, and the final issue in the summer of 2020.

As of 2023, zine publisher Victoria Law works as freelance journalist and author, most frequently writing on the topics of mass incarceration, resistance, and gender. Law was exposed to incarcerated people as a teenager, which led her to become involved in activities supporting prison abolition.

 Scope and Contents

Tenacious: Art & Writings By Women in Prison Zines contains a complete run of the zine (issues 1-44). Also included is a commemorative catalog created by the artist-run non-profit Booklyn, which offered the complete run of Tenacious as a box set in 2021, and included their commerative catalog as a part of this box set.

 Law, Victoria, 1977- American literature--Women authors--21st century Fanzines Prisoners as artists--Unites States--21st century Prisoners as authors--United States--21st century Tenacious (Zine) Women prisoners--United States--Social life and customs--21st century Issue 1 1 1 2002 Summer Issue 2 1 2 2002 Fall Issue 3 1 3 2002 Winter Issue 4 1 4 2003 Spring Issue 5 1 5 2003 May Issue 6 1 6 2003 Fall Issue 7 1 7 2004 Spring Issue 8 1 8 2004 May Issue 9 1 9 2005 Summer Issue 10 1 10 2005 May Issue 11 1 11 2007 Spring Issue 12 1 12 2007 Summer Issue 13 1 13 2007 Fall Issue 14 1 14 2008 May Issue 15 1 15 2008 Fall Issue 16 1 16 2009 Winter Issue 17 1 17 2009 May Issue 18 1 18 2009 Fall Issue 19 1 19 2010 Winter Issue 20 1 20 2010 May Issue 21 1 21 2010 Fall Issue 22 1 22 2011 Spring Issue 23 1 23 2011 Summer Issue 24 1 24 2011 Fall-Winter Issue 25 1 25 2012 Spring Issue 26 1 26 2012 Fall Issue 27 1 27 2012 December Issue 28 1 28 2013 May Issue 29 1 29 2013 Summer Issue 30 2 1 2013 Fall-Winter Issue 31 2 2 2014 Spring Issue 32 2 3 2014 Summer-Fall Issue 33 2 4 2014-2015 Winter Issue 34 2 5 2015 Spring Issue 35 2 6 2016 Summer Issue 36 2 7 2016 Spring Issue 37 2 8 2016 Fall Issue 38 2 9 2017 Winter Issue 39 2 10 2017 Spring Issue 40 2 11 2018 Winter Issue 41 2 12 2018 Summer Issue 42 2 13 2019 Winter Issue 43 2 14 2020 Winter Issue 44 2 15 2020 Summer Tenacious Zine Box Set commerative catalog 2 16 2020