EVERY GIRL SHOULD START A ZINE THIS SUMMER

The revolution was typed on an old electric typewriter, photocopied fifty times, and stapled in the basement of a house show on 4th and Cherry.

I spent two weeks last February cutting apart old magazines with a dull craft knife, typing manifestos on my roommate's electric typewriter, and feeding everything through the copier at the shop on 4th Avenue. By 3 a.m. I had forty copies, still warm from the machine, smelling like toner and possibility.

THE COPY MACHINE IS OUR PRINTING PRESS

You do not need a publisher, a journalism degree, a trust fund, or anyone's permission. You need access to a photocopier — and every library, every school, every copy shop has one waiting for you.

“The most radical thing a girl can do is pick up a pen, write what she thinks, and hand it to a stranger.”