This year was Zee Feed’s fifth birthday, and the perfect time for something I’ve wanted to do since the very beginning: put our journalism in print.
This October marks five years since I decided to pour a COVID-19 redundancy payment into the clear vision I had for what an impactful publication for sharp young women could be. We’ve not only stayed true to that vision, but led the Australian media industry in publishing stories that reflect the growing political awareness of young women and catering to their left-wing beliefs — a reality that mainstream media, and even some independents, are still too afraid to embrace.
Pretending to be ‘neutral’ is bullshit, and it’s not transparent. Zee Feed has lived five bright years as a proudly feminist publication, and we’re not stopping now.
But, damn, things have changed drastically in the past five years. We’re operating in an entirely different media landscape now, and if I’m being honest with myself I’ve been too slow in responding to some of the shifts.
In 2020 TikTok was an emergent platform, now it’s the go-to social app largely responsible for Making Everything Video™. And the terrifying acceleration of generative AI over the past 18 months is threatening to gobble up the entire Internet at the whims of a few billionaires and corporate entities.
Being a journalist who swims in *all this*, every day, will always take a toll. It’s a hazard of the job. But this year the tone of the discourse and the shamelessness of those in power has felt bad for my brain in a different way. I can feel it changing the way my mind works.
So, that means it’s time to get offline.
This first print edition of Zee Feed is to help you and me log off for a little bit, while still using the slower paced summer days to grapple with big, important ideas. I hope you’ll enjoy touching and turning the pages, connecting with great journalism in a different way than we’re used to. Take it to the beach, lend it to a friend, using it as a talking point with your people.
Zee Feed will always be a child of the internet though, so every articles is also available here on the website, for posterity!
Whether you’re new to the world of Zee Feed or you’ve been here since day one, thank you from the bottom of my heart. Together we’ve done so much good.
Crystal Andrews
Founder & editor-in-chief
What’s in the Zee Feed Summer 25-26 issue?
- Five words I never want to hear again: “The left is eating itself”
- What to expect in 2026: Predictions for politics, online culture, fashion, sport and more
- March for who? Lessons from the 2025 anti-immigration rallies
- Slop-pery slope: The AI to alt-right pipeline
- Anti-ageing is the new diet culture
- Joy rant: Bring back YA dystopias
- TBR Pile: Fiction and non-fiction books to read this summer
- 2025 good news recap
- Bing… oh no! Your unhinged predictions for 2026
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