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    The Riot Grrrl Collection
    The Riot Grrrl Collection
    The Riot Grrrl Collection
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    The Riot Grrrl Collection

    By Lisa Darms and Johanna Fateman

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    Archival material from the 1990s underground movement “preserves a vital history of feminism” (Ann Cvetkovich, author of Depression: A Public Feeling).
     
    For the past two decades, young women (and men) have found their way to feminism through Riot Grrrl. Against the backdrop of the culture wars and before the rise of the Internet or desktop publishing, the zine and music culture of the Riot Grrrl movement empowered young women across the country to speak out against sexism and oppression, creating a powerful new force of liberation and unity within and outside of the women’s movement. While feminist bands like Bikini Kill and Bratmobile fought for their place in a male-dominated punk scene, their members and fans developed an extensive DIY network of activism and support. The Riot Grrrl Collection reproduces a sampling of the original zines, posters, and printed matter for the first time since their initial distribution in the 1980s and ’90s, and includes an original essay by Johanna Fateman and an introduction by Lisa Darms.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateJan 19, 2015
    ISBN9781558619098
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      This book is invaluable for anyone interested in the zines of Riot Grrrl. It's easy to forget that the movement was not just about music, but expression of all kinds, and especially literature. It was about opening up whole new ways of writing that differed from the typical, and writing about subjects that were pretty atypical at the time.

      Once you get past the spelling errors that are common throughout the zines, they are truly spectacular examples of total honesty in writing.

      An inspiring collection that I plan on perusing endlessly.

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    The Riot Grrrl Collection - Lisa Darms

    PUBLISHED IN 2013 BY THE FEMINIST PRESS

    AT THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK

    THE GRADUATE CENTER

    365 FIFTH AVENUE, SUITE 5406

    NEW YORK, NY 10016

    FEMINISTPRESS.ORG

    Introducing the Riot Grrrl Collection copyright © 2013 by Lisa Darms

    My Riot Grrrl copyright © 2013 by Johanna Fateman

    Selection and compilation copyright © 2013 by Lisa Darms

    ISBN: 978-1-5586-1822-0

    Publication of this book was supported in part by a generous donation from the Fales Library and Special Collections at New York University

    Individual copyrights retained by contributors.

    All rights reserved.

    No part of this book may be reproduced, used, or stored in any information retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission from the Feminist Press at the City University of New York, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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    Cover and text design by Herb Thornby

    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data available upon request

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    INTRODUCING THE RIOT GRRRL COLLECTION by LISA DARMS

    MY RIOT GRRRL by JOHANNA FATEMAN

    THE RIOT GRRRL COLLECTION

    NOTES

    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

    Riot Grrrl is because I believe with my wholeheartmindbody that girls constitute a revolutionary soul force that can, and will, change the world for real. —Bikini Kill 2

    Riot grrrl was the collective brainstorm of a small group of smart, angry women that eventually became a national news story and influenced an entire generation of girls. Emerging from the punk scenes in Olympia, Washington, and Washington, DC, during the early 90s, riot grrrl called for the liberation of young women by taking control of the means of subcultural production. In pointed contrast to mainstream—and underground—culture, it sought to unify girls, calling out culturally ingrained jealousy and competitiveness between women while also recognizing and accepting individual girl’s differences. The movement aimed to revivify feminism, foregrounding sexual and psychic violence against women, while supporting young women’s sexual expression and right to pleasure. A direct response to the dominance of straight white men in the punk scene, riot grrrl encouraged women to play instruments and start bands, write and distribute zines, and share experiences in the safe all-girl spaces of riot grrrl meetings.

    When I moved to Olympia to go to college in 1989, I didn’t know that a radical punk girl revolution was just starting to germinate there. I went to punk shows, took photographs that sought to reclaim the words girl and slut in self-portraits featuring dolls and garter belts, read pro-sex feminist books, wrote essays positing a female appropriation of the male gaze, and developed fierce life-changing friendships with their women. But I never went to a riot grrrl meeting or called myself one. My idea of punk was TOUGHER than that, I thought; but perhaps my reluctance to directly participate in the movement was nothing more than the kind of insecurity that riot grrrl

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