María Emerson is the Student Success Librarian in the Undergraduate Library at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She started working with zines at her previous institution at Augustana College, where she created a Social Justice Zine Collection, focusing on different social justice issues such as sexual abuse, racism, immigration issues, mental illness, and more. In María’s zine talk, she’ll discuss how zines challenge the idea of authority and credibility, draws attention to issues and experiences often overlooked in mainstream publications, and helps students realize they can be experts of their own lives.