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

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Grassroots media in Europe
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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
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Red Chidgey & Elke Zobl
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At Sea With Sexists

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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GirlFrenzy (1991-1998)

Location

United Kingdom

"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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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.

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Reading Lists
Topic: 
Girls and young women
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Riot Grrrl: Books, Articles, Websites

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Books
Gillian Garr, She's a Rebel: The History of Women in Rock and Roll. New York: Seal Press, 1992.

Chérie Turner, The Riot Grrrl Movement: The Feminism of a New Generation , New York: The Rosen Publishing Group, 2001 (Everything You Need to Know About young people's series)

Nadine Monem (ed), Riot Grrrl: Revolution Girl Style Now!, London: Black Dog Publishing, 2007.

Marion Leonard, Gender in the Music Industry: Rock, Discourse and Girl Power, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007.

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Reading Lists
Topic: 
Girls and young women
Riot Grrrl
Youth culture
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There's Nowt As Queer As Feminism zine

Location

Cardiff
United Kingdom
51° 28' 52.7052" N, 3° 10' 49.7928" W

A zine looking at the links between feminism and queer, from a grassroots activist perspective.

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Morgenmuffel Comic

Location

Brighton
United Kingdom
50° 49' 10.9776" N, 0° 8' 11.6592" W
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KnockBack (Magazine)

Location

United Kingdom

KnockBack Magazine, or KB to our friends, is our A5 antidote to the guff that passes for women’s media. After enduring an issue of Cosmopolitan on a particularly slow day in the office, Marie Berry and friends decided to provide an alternative, a literary nod to the girls we know and love whose lives are not governed by shopping, dieting and celebrity culture. Because we are women who make sense, who work, play and write hard. Because the women you read about in other magazines are not like us, we are not represented, so we choose to represent ourselves, and you, if you are one of us.

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Subtext (Magazine, 2006-2010)

Location

Nottingham
United Kingdom
52° 57' 18.3888" N, 1° 8' 57.516" W

Feminism, politics and culture magazine.

Subtext is written and managed entirely by volunteers on a not-for-profit basis.

We're here to provide an alternative to mainstream women's glossies - a space that's challenging, supportive and engaging. There'll be plenty of much needed feminist critique too.

Subtext is a place where women can voice their opinions, sound off and promote the great things that they're doing or that they respect in others. Men are welcome to join the fun too.

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Different Worlds, Same Heartbeats

Location

Belgium

Ladyfests, DIY, Craft Activism

issue #1:
sort of a feminist travel zine mixed with drawings, reports documenting “the scene” and craft enthusiasm. it includes texts on DIY feminism activism and my views on Ladyfest Amsterdam, Ladyfest Brussels, Ladies’ Room, Freak Out Fest, Up The Grrrls and more.

issue #2:
articles about autonomous media and craft activism. travel reports about the mini-Ladyfests in Brussels, Ladyfest Berlin 2007, Ladyfest Amsterdam 2008, queer fests and more. DIY how-tos about Audacity, cloth pads and recycling an old pairs of trousers to an apron/toolbelt.

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