Tania Martins's Page

I wrote my first zine called Army of Her when I was 17, it was mainly articles that I cut from magazines that were centred on women and how there are some great women out there doing amazing work, that was it pretty much. However, I lost interest because none of my friends were interested. A couple of months back I found out about a zine library near where I live - I spent a few hours there, but will go back to try a photocopy some of the better zines to distribute myself. I think the best zine that I read was perzine, and it's apparently quite a well known one - About My Disappearance by David Roche (?), it really put into perspective what zines can do and that the writing can also be exceptional. After this discovery, I decided to go back to zine-making and made a mini-zine also called Army of Her, but this time it was a perzine mini-zine. I am also starting another series, called Grrrl Power, which will be about female empowerment and how we can empower each other. Hopefully, I will meet a few more people from the zine scene here and at the London Zine Symposium! Hope I didn't bore you :) Thanks

P.S. Let's be friends :)