Hello and welcome to the second issue of thirdspace. It's been nine months since our inaugural issue - a time filled with learning experiences about the ups and downs of feminist publishing. We havebeen through some changes and faced many challenges since we first began, the most significant being editorial changes. Sadly two of our founding editors are no longer with thirdspace. Norma Oshynko and Alisa Harrison have both made the decision to focus on their work, family, and school commitments. Indeed, it has been a challenge for all of us to juggle the pressures of being full-time graduate students with running the journal and running our lives.

The biggest challenge we face is time. Not simply finding the time to work on thirdspace, but the ongoing struggle with how to ask for other people's time. We are becoming increasingly aware of how precious time is, especially for our feminist reviewers and scholars who are faced with the burden of balancing academic obligations and of perhaps being one of a few women working in a particular field whose time is in high demand. However, we successfully pulled our second issue together and it is in great part due to the many feminist scholars who kindly donated what little time they had to review papers for us and to help is to maintain the kind of quality peer-reviewed journal we strive to produce. If the ever-growing number of submissions tells us anything it is that no matter what struggles we face or how many set-backs befall us, what we are doing here is needed. We wanted to provide a place for our fellow graduate students working in feminist research to publish their work and to create a community of like-minded scholars. What we got completely exceeded our expectations: submissions from around the world from students with diverse academic backgrounds; and a global community of feminist academics, scholars, professors, post-docs, artists, writers, and activists that comprise chora, including our list-serv with over 100 members. All these voices are telling us one thing - that our time is worth it and that thirdspace was long overdue.

They also signal that the time of the Internet as a true tool for academics and activism is rapidly approaching. We encourage all of you to promote the use of the web as a valid and valuable resource not just for lists and hints of where to go in the 'real world' for knowledge and inspiration, but for original, quality feminist theory and praxis. And we'll be here, pushing the boundaries of accessibility to feminist ideas without sacrificing academic standards of a high calibre.

So we hope that you will continue to support us and enjoy the community we have created here and we would like to thank those of you who have stood by us and promoted us at every opportunity. We are most grateful to Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Resources from the University of Wisconsin. They wrote about thirdspace in the journal section of their Spring/Summer 2001 issue and we really appreciate their support.

Thanks to the Centre for Women's Studies and Gender Relations, UBC for their continual support, especially to Valerie Raoul; to our dedicated advisory board and to the numerous reviewers who have helped us; to Women in Print bookstore for allowing Kim to spend hours looking through catalogues for our book review section; and to the publishers and authors who have sent fabulous feminist books for us to review.

Finally, we would like to say a very special thank you to Alisa and Norma, our two fellow founding editors. Their contributions, work, insights and input helped to make thirdspace what it is. We hope that they will stay involved in any way that they can and know that they will always be part of the foundation of thirdspace.