It was just something I had to do. Mostly, though, I was inspired by the boys I knew and the fanzines they did. I looked at their 'zines and I wanted to do the girl version of that. I felt I wasn't yet educated, but I knew I wanted to be. I hoped they would think it was cool.
Gender is always a weird thing though.
There was a line of boys, packed in close together, looking at records and they would not let me in to look. It was obvious they were hostile to me being there. As if they were wondering what I could possibly know about rare vinyl. I had to decide to either walk away and be intimidated or push my way in and be as rude as they were being. So I went for the latter.