[Nonfiction]

[A Girl's Guide to Taking Over the World]

A Girl's Guide to Taking Over the World

By Tristan Taormino and Karen Green

In the last decade, there has been an explosion in the production of zines. On the forefront of this cut-and-paste revolution have been those zines made specifically by and for young women. The words and images that have come to define many young women's lives have long been overlooked and underappreciated. A Girl's Guide to Taking Over the World exists because these voices refused to be silenced.

"Tristan Taormino and Karen Green provide a much needed forum, celebrating girls and their voices. An intense and inspiring collective zine rant, A Girl's Guide to Taking Over the World raises its fist and rocks on in the do-it-yourself revolution."
-- Hillary Carlip, author of Girl Power

"A useful anthology of work produced over the past decade in zines...fascinating for the light they cast on the issues, attitudes, and ideas circulating among young women."
-- Kirkus Reviews

"Maybe I didn't have all these great zines when I was a teen but that doesn't mean they can't work retroactively. Reading A Girl's Guide to Taking Over the World, I marvel at the choices offered to teenagers and young women today. Opinions! Unexpurgated, unedited and unapologetic opinions that are no longer easy to dismiss. Why? Because the dots are being connected now and the audience is bigger than ever. And for any grrrl who is terrified of putting pen to paper, fear not. Someone is listening."
-- Ann Magnuson, from the Introduction

Karen Green is a writer, graphic designer, and Internet goddess. Tristan Taormino is a writer and editor of the annual series Best Lesbian Erotica (Cleis Press). They live in New York and are publishers of the magazine Pucker Up.

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