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I'm not waiting. Doin' it yrself, now (zine)

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"This zine is adapted from my Masters research thesis, entitled '"I'm not waiting'. Doing it yrself, now: Challenging constructions of feminist activism and aesthetics in women's punk music communities". (Thesis now held at the Centre for Women's Studies, University of York, England).

I wished to engage the activist community in which I am part, with the academic community in which my research was part of, and bring the two together in discussion of contemporary feminist activism.

I chose to reproduce my research in a zine in order to reflect certain things which are true to the relationship between the means of production and the activism which I discuss. This zine in effect is the manifestation of the shifting aesthetics of do-it-yourself activism I am discussing; taking culturally political production into ones own hands."
- Melanie Maddison

Location

Leeds
United Kingdom
53° 47' 58.6932" N, 1° 32' 56.796" W
Names of Producers/organizers/editors/creators: 
Melanie Maddison
User reference: 
MelanieCOTL
Timerange, Issue-nr, ...: 
2004
Files: 
Topic: 
Do-It-Yourself
Grassroots media in Europe