KJ Elizabeth

Some news. Last week I sent off a bunch of old zines from my collection to the lovely Elle from Sticky. She helps manage the zine collection in the rare books section at the State Library in Melbourne. I was going to have them thrown in Sticky’s exchange box but Elle suggested I donate them to the Library. That was hands down a much better idea, so at some point in the future there will be a box of zine goodies in the library’s collection labeled ‘KJ Elizabeth’. BTW if you’d like to view the State Library’s zine collection, you can do so by making an appointment via Elle at Sticky or through the rare printed collections staff at the library. I’m told the collection is massive and goes back to the early 80s.

Still on zines. A few months ago I was invited along with many other grrl zinesters around the globe to contribute to an international anthology of grrl zines. The anthology is the work of Grrrlzines.net. I’m a little out of the loop with zines these days due to the PhD, but I was able to put something of a scene report together. After asking around it seems that there are almost no zine distros left in Australia, apart from one anarchist focused one (Beating Hearts). Sad to see.

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