Grrrl Zine Networks: Re-Composing Spaces of Authority, Gender, and Culture

Abstract

pamphlets, to the Unabomber manifesto, Do-It-Yourself publi cation is as American as Mom's homemade pipe bomb. i wide range of workplace and civic writing communities have gar nered the attention of many composition scholars and teachers, yet the everyday literate activities of a growing do-it-yourself (DIY) zine net work have remained relatively unaddressed in the various realms of academic inquiry.1 There may be many reasons for this omission, not the least of which is the decidedly nonacademic layout, style, grammar, tone, and content of the zine genre as well as its history in American counter culture. However, if we as teachers and researchers of writing wish to continue situating academic literacies within the larger framework of cultural production and pedagogy, the zine movement and its most recent progeny?what is known as the riot grrrl zine scene?have much to teach us about the sites, practices, politics, and economies of writing. As this article will demonstrate, grrrl zine editors are collectively engaged in forms of writing and writing instruction that challenge both dominant notions of the author as an individualized, bodiless space and notions of feminism as primarily an adult political project.2 By appropriating the political tactics and writing practices of both the punk zine scene and the larger feminist movement, the grrrl zine network

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