Meanings
plural girlzines
- A zine written predominantly by and for girls, specifically the riot grrrl subculture.
Impatient horniness — the stereotypically male variety — shapes the credo of the on-line girlzine Minx.
2000, Benjamin DeMott, Killer woman blues2 more examples
On 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.
2001, Chérie Turner, Everything you need to know about the riot grrrl movementOn 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[…]
2007, Rosalind Gill, Gender and the Media, page 2
Origin
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girlzine. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/girlzine
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