Press and Awards

Editorial director Sheila Sampath talks Shameless and making alternative media on the Bitch Popaganda Podcast!

Shameless wins a 2005 UTNE Independent Press Award!

Shameless wins a 2006 UTNE Independent Press Award!

Shameless is hailed as a “Positive Alternative to Toxic Teen Magazines” in Gender Focus!

The Feminist Majority Foundation lists Shameless as one of its favourite feminist magazines for youth!

Filth Zine features Shameless Magazine, saying “The best way I can describe Shameless is a an amalgam of your sassy big sister, that party time neighbor and the radical history teacher you maybe never had.”

Shameless featured in This Magazine!

Shameless selected for Bitch Magazine’s “Bitch in a Box” Gift Guide for Teen Girls!

Shameless is highlighted in York University’s Excalibur Newspaper for its fresh approach to feminism and women’s media!

For Books’ Sake, a UK-based webzine devoted to books by and for independent women, calls Shameless “diverse, bold and inspiring!

The Examiner invites Torontonians to try out Shameless and support independent media.

Torontoist wants publisher Julia Horel’s job.

Shameless editorial director Sheila Sampath reflects on ten years of feminist publishing in La Press+

Shameless editorial director Sheila Sampath is featured in This Magazine’s Social Justice All-Stars issue, in a piece written by Shameless arts editor Julia De Laurentiis Johnson!