The Projects

Our research did identify e-zine and web-based projects, some arising from community programming. The Venus Project in Toronto and the Young Women Work participatory research in Winnipeg, for instance, are two that include e-zine production by girls. Power Camp National/Filles d’action is also currently developing an on-line, live-action zine to increase the visibility, profile and voices of young women across Canada doing great things. There are myriad other e-zines for girls, some explicitly feminist or aimed at empowering and others emphatically not. Given that most girls’ e-zines are not community-based programs in the sense of being location-based and
grounded in a community program, they are not featured in the program scan. However, encouraging and supporting involvement in such projects is very much in keeping with the best practices in girls’ programming.