Typical Girls: Women in Punk/Post-Punk/Underground Music (Circa 1975-1980s)

[Cazz Blase <cazz.blase AT gmail.com>]

Well, I started my fanzine writing career in 1993 and there were a lot of girls in the UK writing fanzines then. Mainly because of riot grrrl, but also, a bit because of twee and C86 I think as well...

Certain scenes and moments were enabling for women and girls writing fanzines, plus it was pre internet still then of course so it was zines and letters really.

C.

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   1. Re: Fanzines (WWWhatsup)
   2. Re: Callout for female fanzine UK fanzine writers,        1975-1984
      (Joly MacFie)


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On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 3:23 AM, Helen McCookerybook <
helen_mccookerybook AT yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Liz Naylor and Cath Carroll, City Fun, Manchester


?Very good. That's a big one!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Fun

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?The irony is that, by the late 80s, and into the 90s, zines very much
became a female dominated activity, am I wrong?

I covered a NY zinefest in 2000 and it was mostly women.
http://punkcast.com/18/

On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 12:48 AM, Layla Gibbon <lpgibbon AT yahoo.com> wrote:

> When I was at MRR someone made me reproductions of some female run
> fanzines from this era, one was by a Californian woman who moved to London
> and also wrote for Flipside about the UK scene, and one was by Liz Naylor
> (punk name Lucy Toothpaste) (who also booked the Bikini Kill/Huggy Bear
> tour in the UK) and the second issue featured an interview with the Slits
> who on discovering that she was a female punk zine writer invited
> themselves over to her house...  I wrote about it in my old column here:
> whatwewantisfree: You?ll never see your face in a magazine.
> <http://whatwewantisfree.blogspot.com/2009/04/youll-never-see-your-face-in-magazine.html>
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> <http://whatwewantisfree.blogspot.com/2009/04/youll-never-see-your-face-in-magazine.html>
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> whatwewantisfree: You?ll never see your face in a magazi...
> <http://whatwewantisfree.blogspot.com/2009/04/youll-never-see-your-face-in-magazine.html>
> ?I was involved in the U.S. hardcore scene through writing, rather than
> touring. Anne and I worked on one of the earliest DC hardcore zines, Now
> What?, published in...
> View on whatwewantisfree.blo...
> <http://whatwewantisfree.blogspot.com/2009/04/youll-never-see-your-face-in-magazine.html>
> Preview by Yahoo
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> On Tuesday, March 1, 2016 9:10 PM, Joly MacFie <joly AT punkcast.com> wrote:
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> ?Here in NYC things are a little different.
>
> There were a bunch of girls doing a zine in 1980. One of them Gabby, came
> to work for me at Better Badges.
> She later played guitar for Luscious Jackson. I don
> ?'
> t have a contact but I see her around occasionally. ?
>
> ?Then there was Nancy Breslow, who did Short Newz?. She also came to
> London and worked at BB, became our east coast rep.
>
> More recently, Wendy, Guillotine. http://www.guillotinezine.com/about-us/
>
> But I'm still drawing a blank on UK efforts, beyond Gee and International
> Anthem - not a fanzine per se.
>
> j
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> On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 11:26 AM, viv acious <aciousviv AT gmail.com> wrote:
>
> hi,
> there was a fanzine in Coventry called 'Alternative Sounds' can't remember
> the name of the bloke who ran it, but he did publish a photo I took of
> Chrissie Hynde on stage in 1979. i've got the photo but not the mag.
> regards,
> viv acious (ms)
>
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 8:08 PM, Cazz Blase <cazz.blase AT gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm very new to this list, so I should probably introduce myself.
>
> My name is Cazz Blase, I wrote a five part series on women and UK punk for
> the F-Word website (www.thefword.org.uk) between 2010 and 2011. I'm in
> the process of turning the series into a book, and for that, I need more
> interviewees.
>
> Because I'm interested in how women contributed to the growing mythology
> of punk, I'm interested in speaking to female fanzine writers who were
> writing punk fanzines in the UK at anytime between 1975 and 1984.
>
> I've tracked a few people down, and I realise it's likely to be a very
> small group of people to draw from in any case, but...
>
> I would be very interested in tracking down Crystal and Sarah who did More
> On and Sharon Spike who did Apathy in Ilford.
>
> If anyone happens to have a lead on how I might track them down, I'd be
> very, very grateful indeed.
>
> Thank you very much,
>
> Cazz
>
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