The anarcho-feminist zine "Bloody Mary" and the influence of the Internet: The problem with the hierarchy of the collective creative process
Abstract
The anarcho-feminist zine "Bloody Mary" and the influence of the Internet: The problem with the hierarchy of the collective creative process. This article describes the conclusions from my postgraduate thesis, which maps the changes of the anarcho-feminist zine Bloody Mary and its transformations under the impact of the Internet, blogging and the computer graphics software used in the production of the zine.
The main sources used in this case study were the issues of the zine1, interviews conducted with the authors and the readers, as well as materials published on the author's blog. I have explored several categories emerging during the analysis in addition to determining the impact of personal computers and the Internet on the changes within these categories.
In this sense, one can trace the influence the Internet had in some of the sources used in the zine, in the zine's format and in its ties to anarchist and feminist groups abroad. However, other categories were not entirely influenced by the Internet to such a great extent, partly owing to the authors' approach to feminism, their description of queer topics or by their material surroundings.
As such, they were impacted by the environment in which the zine was made, as well as by the lives of the authors.