Week3 Readings

I've never hear or read these magazines or zines in particular Riot Grrrl. After reading this article "Be a Zinester" I googled it and i thought the concept was great! exactly what i felt was lacking in mainstream. I love pink and I will be burried wearing high heels and a dress but it doesnt mean i dont want to beat down that cunt (she knows who she is) for disrespecting her mom, or i wont write about some fat ass dick in a petite slut's pussy, or a freckle faced man jagging off at himself in the mirror. so the idea that that kind of magazine, and the preceeding zines thereafter, dared to go there and break those stereotypical "woman" roles was so awesome to me. not every girl is prissy and dainty, or hard and crude. it's called being human. of course, i hadnt heard of them cuz i live in a bubble of myself. so, im a little slow on the scene. plus im not down with the scene altogether so that statement doesnt make much sense.

anyways, there is so much crap published out and there is so much awesome shit that just gets completely ignored and that is unfortunate. Zines are that voice when corpo-shit's wont publish you because for whatever reason. Or its the words you cant get yourself to say. its true that everyone has a story but not everyone is willing to share it and when they go through the trouble of creating, writing, submiting their zines it shows it was important to you.

Not every zine is just a folded up piece of paper, a lot of thought goes into making them and it's very idiotic to think that all zines are brain farts. I'm not saying there arent any that someone just thinks, 'zines are hip, i'll do one to fit it.' and thats just crap. nothing should be done because its trendy or the in-thing and if it is, you would hope people learn something from the process. i personally dont enjoy zines but thats only cuz i have limited time to read and process information, my brain rebells against knowledge but if i had a full day to wander the isles of quimbys you bet i would flip through every zine and take it all in.

basically, i really enjoyed this article because it gave me stuff to research and learn more about. yay.