4 Campaigns!
How do feminist magazines promote women’s activism? In this episode we talk campaigns, cartels, cartoons, and court cases with two periodical pioneers: Lesley Riddoch, a founding member of Scottish feminist magazine Harpies and Quines (1992-1994) and Gail Chester of Women’s Report (1972-1979), the UK’s first national news magazine ‘for women, by women, about women’. We begin, however, with a question about the fiendishness of feminist crossword puzzles…
Supporting materials and useful links:
Other Links
- Harpies & Quines: 25 years on and relevant as ever – an article by Charlotte Osdalen on the Glasgow Women’s Library website
- Women’s Report on the Grassroots Feminism website
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Episodes
- 1 A Reawakening of Internationalist Feminism
- 2 For Girls, By Girls
- 3 Black British Feminism
- 4 Campaigns!
- 5 Diva Now and Then
- 6 Feminist Print Revival!
- Bonus Episode – Black Zine Culture
All episodes produced by Pixiu.
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