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313: The Library Loiterers - Vol. III: The Zine Scene with Izy Iannetta at Toronto Zine Library


Welcome, dear friends, to the library. 


Each episode finds me loitering in a library with a special guest in a location of their choosing. We comb the stacks and have a chat about passions, practices, and possibilities, letting the story unfold as it will. You’re encouraged to read between the lines because it’s going to be a real page turner… 


Welcome to The Library Loiterers.


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Nestled on the 2nd floor of the Tranzac Club at 292 Brunswick Avenue, I find myself in a cozy space on a cold winter evening at the Toronto Zine Library with local creative, Izy Iannetta. 


Izy is an advertising strategist, performer, and a published poet, with a Master of Digital Media from Toronto Metropolitan University. They are a queer, mad, neurodivergent, AFAB person with a passion for community building and self-expression. Izy is also a member of the team at Sick Stories, a radical bookstore and micropublisher focused on amplifying the voices of disabled, chronically ill, neurodivergent, and mentally ill writers and artists. Learn more at sickstories.org


The Toronto Zine Library & Archive (TZL) is a physical library space run by a collective of zine readers, zine makers, and librarians who strive to make zines accessible for the Toronto community. They believe that zines are an important medium of communication, and that they should be cherished, protected, and promoted. Through conducting workshops at their library and abroad and hosting events that promote zines as a method of open communication and free expression, as well as the library space itself, they aim to make this belief a reality. 


Last year I had the opportunity to speak with two volunteers from the Toronto Zine Library for this podcast. You can check out Episode 262 for the full conversation and explore their catalog at https://www.torontozinelibrary.org/.


Today Izy and I find ourselves exploring the catalog in-person, surrounded on all sides by shelves containing big ideas tucked into small publications. Let’s see what we find… 


Red textured cover with gold title The Library Loiterers and subtitle Volume III: The Zine Scene with Izy Iannetta at Toronto Zine Library
Crumpled cream paper with centered dedication text honoring independent publishers who create with paper, pen, and scissors.
Table of Contents on crumpled beige paper listing Preface and chapters with times in bold black serif type.
Diana and Izy are smiling and pose with peace signs in front of zine shelves and gold ZINES balloons in a cozy shop.



About Our Guest:

Izy Iannetta is an advertising strategist, performer, and a published poet, with a Master of Digital Media from Toronto Metropolitan University. They are a queer, mad, neurodivergent, AFAB person with a passion for community building and self-expression. Izy is also a member of the team at Sick Stories, a radical bookstore and micropublisher focused on amplifying the voices of disabled, chronically ill, neurodivergent, and mentally ill writers and artists. Learn more at sickstories.org


Colophon:

  • Recorded on location at Toronto Zine Library on February 27, 2026.

  • Music tracks used in this episode were both from the Free Music Archive. 

  • Sound Effects were all Creative Commons 0 license from Freesound.org

    • Creak 11.wav by jameswrowles -- https://freesound.org/s/323546/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

    • pages turning.wav by simone_ds -- https://freesound.org/s/366079/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 

    • Scribble.wav by TiesWijnen -- https://freesound.org/s/341738/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

    • group shush by chapter15studios -- https://freesound.org/s/760256/ -- License: Creative Commons 0


Text is set in conversation, bound by curiosity. Until next time…

 
 
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