Before it was a book, it was a research paper…”Women Bomb”

While revising Graffiti Grrlz this morning, I had to dig into my archives to find the first paper I wrote on the topic of women in graffiti (April 2002).

Looking at it now…well, it left a lot to be desired but I was certainly on the right track despite my terrible writing.

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I’m posting about it today for one particular reason. My research (including those early email addresses) existed on floppy disks…that have long since disappeared, but I wonder if I can use the power of the internet to locate those first respondents: Merc/Elmo (England); Lace One (FL, USA); Dvine (IL, USA); Mel/Nasty (NJ, USA); Erin (Perugia, Italy); Desr (CA, USA), Nungi (CA, USA); and Toots/2tsie (CA, USA).

(Remember, in 2002 you didn’t necessarily just email a jpg. You sent an original or a copy. These are scanned and photocopied and then scanned from those bad copies!)

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