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"Look at history from a female perspective and everything changes. HerStoria magazine in print, and Discover Women's History Web online, will entertain, inform and create a community. We turn a kaleidoscope on the past to uncover a different history - women's history - and celebrate the women who made it.

What is women’s history?

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A quarterly magazine produced around different themes and by a different production collective each time. Grew out of the Women Artists' Newsletter.

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"We are a group of women in the Labour Movement fighting for Womens Liberation and Socialism. We see the two as inseparable. Women are not going to be liberated by an act of parliament, although this does not mean we do not fight to elect a Labour government committed to equal rights for women. But we do not think this is the way women will have true liberation, nor do we believe that the working class is white, heterosexual and male.

We cannot expect male members of parliament nor for that matter male revolutionaries to give us liberation.

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"It is clear that having a forum to speak about things that are kept silent, about the daily violation of women's rights, to defend women who have nobody to stand up for them, to discuss and work to change the rules, laws, and decrees which dominate women's lives, to stop the emotional and moral harassment committed by society, to raise awareness about women's human rights, to give women the hope that our lives can be better, is more needed: a forum, a journal, an organisation, to show that women have something to say, to express our views, to have our voices heard: a forum to show that women

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An anti-sexist magazine that was produced by a working collective of socialist men and launched to coincide with the London Men's Conference in 1978. From the editorial of their first issue:

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This zine is a way to show how we can make the changes we want to see in our
culture, by ourselves.

-To inspire others
-To show how easy it can be
-To harness potentials
-To show DIY-in-action
-To show that we all have the potential to be creative producers and creative
consumers everyday
-To share tips
-To explore how and why we do the things we do
-To show creative alternatives to blind consumption of mainstream culture

Articles include:
Booking and Organising spoken-word tours, Curating Art Shows, Being a queer femme performance artist, Making Comics, Making poster artwork for gigs and events, Making your own animations, Making your own [documentary] films, Making Zines, Opening your own independent Gallery Space, Organising a Zine Fest, Organising Comedy Nights, Putting on Gigs, Putting on your own club night, Running a Magazine, Running a Zine Distro, Running your own record label, Recording Albums, Opening up your own Vegan Cafe, Screen printing, Setting up a Zine Library, Starting your own publishing house, Starting your own band, Starting your own theatre company, Writing and performing poetry, Writing and Publishing your own Book, Organising an Exhibition, Opening your own Shop, Opening your own Comic Shop.

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Founded by Lesley Riddoch. Shortlisted for Orwell Prize. Unsuccessfully sued by Harpes and Queens before being declared bankrupt.

Excerpt from interview (4.10.2005), http://livingmemory.org.uk/rememberwhen/interview/intHC.html

Helen Chambers: I got my first proper job which was Harpies and Quines magazine which was a feminist magazine, published in Glasgow which Lesley Riddoch was involved in starting so I did that for a while.

Vicky Woods: What was it called?

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In today's 'post-feminist' society, women and men are considered equal. For younger women and men, feminism is often portrayed as unfashionable and irrelevant. But since the beginning of the new millennium a revitalised feminist movement has emerged to challenge these assumptions and assert a vibrant new agenda. This groundbreaking book reveals the what, why and how of the new feminist movement and what it has to say about women's lives in today's society.

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Ladyfest Cologne will happen from 3rd to 5th of September 2010.

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