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"Feminist Memory" Blog

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This blog will serve as a research platform for a doctoral project on feminist media and feminist memory at London South Bank University, supervised by Dr. Anna Reading.

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London
United Kingdom
51° 30' 0.5472" N, 0° 7' 34.4496" W
Topic: 
Do-It-Yourself
Grassroots media in Europe
History
Women's Liberation Movement
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Echo

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ECHO is...

a low-budget DIY feminist media, music and art production project started in 2001

ECHO produces...

- the zines Flapper Gathering, Same Heartbeats, Not Lady-Like, Coma To Action...
- the comix Radix
- pamphlets about anarcha-feminism, riot grrrl...
- the compilation tapes Echoholic, Riots in the Benelux...
- crafts
- artwork

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Nina
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Comics & Graphic Novel
Crafts
Illustration
Music
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Topic: 
Art
Do-It-Yourself
Grassroots media in Europe
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La Mestiza Colectiva

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Location

Lima
Peru
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"Scum Grrrls" Maga|zine

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Scum Grrrls is a feminist (maga)zine from Brussels, Belgium, inspired by radical feminism and riot grrrl:

"Scumgrrrls emprunte son titre au Scum Manifesto de Valérie Solanas, brûlot féministe radical des années 70 ainsi qu’au mouvement des riot grrrls, appartenant au féminisme des années 90 et 2000, les conjuguant pour créer un lien entre différents courants et histoires du féminisme, entre analyse et action féministes, avec du sérieux, de l’impertinence et une dose d’humour !

Location

Brussels
Belgium
50° 50' 46.6116" N, 4° 21' 17.0172" E
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Topic: 
Grassroots media in Europe
Riot Grrrl
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"Cultural revolution is an important weapon against all oppressions": An e-mail interview with Carla, Julie and Íris from Histérica Zine, Brazil

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"We are three brazilian girls that made a paper zine using the internet. The Riot Grrrl Movement inspires us, the radical feminists of the 60's too, our personal expirience, [and] we try to put links between what's important for us. There's a lot of other things that are mixed in what we are doing and you can feel it reading the fanzine. It's all written in portuguese, our first issue was out on March 09 and we interviewed: Allison Wolfe (lead singer of seminal riot grrrl band Bratmobile and nowadays vocal fo Partyline) and the seminal punk feminist band from the brazilian riot grrrl: Dominatrix. Texts and artwork. Soon the second issue is done and you girls will probably heard about it. "

Interviewee: 
Carla, Julie and Íris
Interviewer: 
Red Chidgey and Elke Zobl




Ladyfest Paraguay: An email interview with Monica Beatriz Martinez Echeverria from Asuncion

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Ladyfest
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Please introduce yourself!
Hi! My name’s Monica, I´m a veterinary student at Sao Paulo State University (Brasil) but I´m from Asuncion, paraguayan city in South America. I make part of the collective Riot Grrrls chapter Paraguay, and organized with the collective 3 Ladyfests from Paraguay.

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What is your zine “Synthemesco y las Ptitsas Zine” about? What topics do you discuss most often? What made you decide to start this project? How did you come up with the idea and the name?

Interviewee: 
Monica Beatriz Martinez Echeverria
Interviewer: 
Elke Zobl




"We are following an historical line": An email interview with the Lash Back! Collective

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Grassroots media in Europe
Zine
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Can you introduce yourself?
Hello, we are Lash Back! Lash Back is a feminist collective and magazine based in Dublin Ireland. The group was initially set up in late 2007 by 3 women in Dublin. The group has slowly evolved and now encompasses approx 25 casual collective members, 6 organising members and an e-mail group of over 80 members.

Can you tell us about the Lash Back collective?

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Lash Back Collective
Interviewer: 
Red Chidgey & Elke Zobl




At Sea With Sexists

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Sometimes giving the time of day to a sexist isn’t the best way of dealing with them. But sometimes… sometimes… you’re at sea with them and there’s no getting off the boat, you just need some quick answers to the biggest sexist jibes, to right it and stand up straight again. This ‘zine will give a bit of that.

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Activism
Representation of women
Sexual violence
Youth culture
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"GirlFrenzy" (1991-1998)

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"GirlFrenzy zine has been published since 1991 and has always been a popular and unique forum for the work of comic strip artists, women musicians, riot-grrrls and anti-censorship feminists. Ideal reading matter for Grown-up Girls and The Odd Boy".

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United Kingdom
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Grassroots media in Europe
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Feminist / Grrrl / Zines: Books, Articles and Websites

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Websites
Grrrl Zine Network, (there is an extensive zine related bibliography here, http://www.grrrlzines.net/writingonzines.htm)

Books
V. Vale, Zines!,Vol. I and II. San Francisco: ReSearch, 1996/1997.

Karen Green and Tristan Taormino (eds), A Girl's Guide to Taking Over the World: Writings from the Girl Zine Revolution. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997.

Stephen Duncombe, Notes from Underground: Zines and the Politics of Alternative Culture . New York: Verso, 1997.

Type of Resource: 
Books & Articles
Topic: 
Girls and young women
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