She Shreds Magazine is ending its print publication and fully transitioning to the digital platform She Shreds Media. She Shreds founder Fabiola Reyna announced the news today in a letter on the magazine’s website. “Dear Shredders,” Reyna writes. “First off all, let’s get this over with: No, this isn’t a goodbye letter. It’s a look at how far we’ve come letter. It’s a letting go, moving on, and growing into something bigger, bolder, and louder letter. It’s the end of She Shreds Magazine. But the beginning of She Shreds Media.” Find Reyna’s full statement here.
Reyna launched the first issue of She Shreds in 2012 as a response to the extreme lack of representation female guitarists and bassists face in music media. Since printing that initial issue, She Shreds has featured everyone from Courtney Barnett, Sleater Kinney’s Corin Tucker, Against Me!’s Laura Jane Grace, Brittany Howard, Jenny Lewis, and many others on its cover. The magazine has published thousands of interviews with notable female musicians in its eight year existence.
“Together, over the last eight years, we’ve opened doors for new conversations that have demanded significant cultural shifts in the representation of musicians,” Reyna writes in her letter. “She Shreds as an entity was formed to fill a gap, to bring together community in an effort to show each other that we were never actually alone. And maybe, more importantly, to remind each other what our potential has, is, and will always be.”
While She Shreds will go fully digital before the year is out, its 20th and final issue is available for pre-order now. Issue 20 will hit stands in June.
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