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Tag: busy bea’s bush

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| by Jenny Woolworth

Riot Grrrl, part 2: Me and the ‘Zines

Between 1992-1996, during my late teens, I published a series of personal ‘zines. The first three editions I called Busy Bea’s Bush, as a play on Beatrice, my middle name. But I then got a bit shy about the title and decided to change to the more aggressive, less personal Beri-Beri (after the song by the Swiss band Kleenex) for the next two issues.

At any one point, I was corresponding with hundreds of people from across North America. Every day, I could expect a zine or letter waiting in my mailbox when I came home from high school. Yet once I started college in 1994, I had less time and less need to publish a zine and by 1996 I stopped all together. Beri-Beri no. 3 never reached beyond the draft stage.

But now, with the aid of modern technology, here at last is the Beri- Beri lost edition!

It’s basically a look back at one year of my life (age 19) jumping from Antioch College to Boston to Pittsburgh to New York City before I disappear into ‘zine oblivion. Embarrassing as it is for me to share this now, some fifteen years later, I have to say I am proud of what I accomplished then and still carry myself with that riot grrrl empowerment in everything I do.

On a somewhat related note, ZineWiki has done a fantastic job collecting and cataloging zines from around the world. The Queer Zine Archive Project is a more genre specific web based project dedicated to archiving and sharing queer zines. Both are worthy of attention and support by anyone interested in independent publishing.

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Articles

  • Typical Girls
  • Venus Weltklang Festival 1981
  • “Wissenschaft, Künste + Alles Andere” Symposium
  • Women’s Liberation Music Archive
  • LiLiPUT 2010 interview
  • Chewing the Scenery 2011
  • Riot Grrrl, part 3: Sara Marcus interview
  • Riot Grrrl, part 2: Me and the ‘Zines
  • Riot Grrrl, part 1: Archives
  • Canaille Festival, Zürich 1986
  • Heavens to Betsy demo 1992
  • Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains
  • Punk Cocktail
  • Grýlurnar – Mávastellið lp
  • Heartless Martin – Tonigh cassette
  • Meltdown – The Map lp
  • Go in the Dark 7″
  • Mother Festival / Berlin / 2011
  • Mother Festival / London / 2010
  • Lost and Found exhibition 2007
  • Women’s Film Archives: Cinenova and Bildwechsel

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