Zine Activisms: Past, Present, Future
Feminist Bookshop, Brighton, 5th June 2024
In this interactive workshop at The Feminist Bookshop, we were thinking about the distinctive form of the zine, its relation to feminist activism and the role of print zines in the digital age. We looked at a range of feminist zines and magazines from the 1970s and 1980s including Spare Rib, Sappho, Red Rag, Shocking Pink, Mukti and Scarlet Women to reflect on the following questions:
- How does the form of the zine/magazine shape feminist debate?
- What do things like covers, listings and letters tell us about key campaigns and issues?
- To what extent are the legacies of Liberation evident in contemporary feminist media activism?
- What, if anything, distinguishes the debates of the Women’s Liberation Movement from contemporary feminist debates?
The team were joined by brilliant local contemporary zinemakers from Aghh! Zine and Tough Cookie Mag.
This event was hosted in partnership with the University of Sussex, with funding from the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC).This event was a partnership between Liberating Histories and the Business of Women’s Words project which ran between 2018-2021.
Some photos from the event
