October 28, 2024, by Chloe

Dear sisters: Have you seen this feminist zine?

Is it a collage? Is it poetry? Is it a meditation in pink rice bran-based ink? The zine Dear sisters is all of the above. Each page prints a response by a woman living in Notts to second wave feminism. In the 1970s-1990s hundreds of feminist magazines and newspapers circulated in the UK. They rallied women’s liberation and gave women a haven to hear themselves think. Our society is both a beneficiary and custodian of feminism’s legacy. The zine Dear sisters asks women to reflect on their place in society here and now against this background.

The cover of the Dear Sisters zine

The occasion for the zine was a workshop organised by Nottingham Trent University’s Periodicals and Print Culture Research Group in collaboration with the University of Nottingham’s Manuscripts and Special Collections. The workshop took place in May 2024 at Lakeside Arts and involved an exploration of the exhibition dear sisters: activists archives. The zine was published in September 2024, with a foreword by Nadia Whittome MP.

The zine Dear sisters comes to you from a small print run of 100 copies, designed by MOAN and the city’s independent art press Dizzy Ink. It rounds up twenty-nine artworks by twenty-nine women in a rousing manifesto of the here and now.

On sale at Five Leaves bookshop, £10. Proceeds go to Broxtowe Women’s Project who provide support and advice for women affected by domestic abuse.

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