B-Low is the product of a hippy mother, and a hobo-upbringing. As a result, she has scant appreciation for such tedium as routine, being an adult or having a ‘proper job’.
Rather, she pays her rent by colour-coding things, bossing people around for shits and giggles, striking vicious red marks through someone else’s words, and cobbling together the odd article and spot of web copy. In the past, she has worked for a worryingly wide range of people including BDA, BBC, Great British Chefs, The Fly, The Australian Times and a whole heap of things she will never speak of again.
Barlow is also the Editor and Founder (yes, CAPITALS she’s so important) of thegirlsare.com – an independent, online magazine supporting and promoting women in music. She is one half of the founding team of spit. music (a live platform supporting women MCs, lyricists, DJs and beatmakers), and she hosts many other gigs throughout the year. She is also a part of the Le Cinema Des Femmes team (pop-up cinema), runs the club night Fanny Pack with friends and is one third of the dream team who run The Quiz (feminist pub quiz). She contributes to For Books’ Sake, The Line of Best Fit, Fat Quarter and many more.
She has two tortoises whom she equally adores and loathes – the latter in particular when they poo on her cleanly washed floors.
She works too hard, doesn’t sleep enough, and is said to have red wine running through her veins instead of blood.