Girlzine

Origin

girl + zine

Full definition of girlzine

Noun

1. A zine written predominantly by and for girls, specifically the riot grrrl subculture.
• 2000, Benjamin DeMott, Killer woman bluesImpatient horniness — the stereotypically male variety — shapes the credo of the on-line girlzine Minx.
• 2001, Chérie Turner, Everything you need to know about the riot grrrl movementOn another floor there was a fanzine workshop, as well as a putting-on-gigs workshop, an extensive girlzine stall and a rape crisis information point.
• 2007, Rosalind Gill, Gender and the Media (page 2)On the one hand feminist ideas are increasingly taken for granted across a range of media and genres, vibrant girlzines spring up all over the world, and the Web is home to an enormous diversity of feminist ideas...