THIS REVOLUTION WILL BE MERCHANDISED

“We’d love to revolutionize media for women. Right now we’re just a zine, but someday I want to see a print Maxi magazine, Maxi radio, Maxi TV, Maxi clothing, Maxi: The Movie. Commerce. Makeup. World domination. The planet will be like a Disneyland for women.”

Janelle Brown, cofounder of Maxi, an online zine for the painfully underserved demographic of hip urban twentysomething women, on her modest plans for her media beast, San Francisco Bay Guardian, 11 February 1998