About us

holds PhD in sociology and a post-doctoral scholarship at the University Salzburg, Department of Communication. She is currently working at the research project “Feminist Media Production in Europe”, funded by the Austrian Science Fund. She is co-founder of the digital archive http://www.digmeout.org Discourses on Popular Music, Gender and Ethnicity (together with Maria José Belbel) and co-editor of the anthologies Female Consequences.

Red Chidgey (UK) is a PhD candidate at London South Bank University, looking at feminist cultural memory, archives and media production. She holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Life History Research and a MA in Critical Theory at the University of Sussex, England. During 2008-2010 she was part of the Feminist Media Production in Europe research team, along with Elke Zobl, Rosa Reitsamer and Jenny Gunnarsson Payne.

She blogs about her activist and research interests at: http://feministmemory.wordpress.com

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Elke Zobl, Austria, created the Grrrl Zine Network - A resource site for international grrrl, lady, queer and trans folk zines, distros and DIY projects (www.grrrlzines.net) in 2001. The web site currently lists around 2000 zines from 43 countries. The Grrrl Zine Network site hosts information on zine distros, comics, magazines, connected organizations, resources and writings on zines; Zobl has also conducted more than 100 interviews with feminist zine editors and distributors in 34 countries.