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soupicore · 2 years

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we should bring back the riot grrrl movement

#im ready #i mean massively #also recommend me bands #like actual bands #also bc i hate men #modern riot grrrls #all i can think of is destroy boys and crawlers #feminism #feminist #women #wanna make zines #zines #free zine #destroy boys #crawlers #joan jett #riot grrrl #riot grrrl bands

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schlock-luster-video · 13 days

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On April 15, 1982, Times Square debuted in Australia.

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the-cricket-chirps · 9 months

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Riot Grrrl no. 1

Molly Neuman and Allison Wolfe

July 1991

#modern art #american art #riot grrrl #riot grrrl art #zine #feminist zine #riot grrrl zine #feminist art #feminism #1990s #the 90s #punk rock #punk #women in punk #women in art #girls to the front #woman with gun

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trashy-hippy · 2 years

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i would pass away if i was there

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iamafireplace · 1 year

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Saw those tags. Could you rec a few punk albums to me?

sure here’s not like a top 10 list but just some stuff i’ve been listening to not necessarily big deal bands tho

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#idk if you were asking for like a top ten or if just for recs #anyways discharge should probably be on there #for starting d-beat #one of the most relevant modern genres of punk #i think they had green day on there maybe #and that’s probably a fine choice #but you prob need some riot grrrl probably bikini kill #likely the replacements #melvin’s #some of those old hardcore bands #fear or smth?

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musicrunsthroughmysoul · 1 year

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I'm finally listening to Big Joanie's Back Home album even though it's been out for a few weeks now and OH MY GOD, THE '80S CALLED AND BIG JOANIE ANSWERED AND SAID "YOU WANT YOUR SYNTHS BACK? TRY AND TAKE 'EM FROM US"!?!?!?!?!?

BLESSED, WE HAVE BEEN BLESSED

#I'm literally so happy that they're modernizing music from my favorite decade of music (the '80s)#and yes I'm intentionally speaking as though no one else has made synth music or '80s style music since the '80s #well here's the truth at least: no one has in the exact same way Big Joanie is now! :D #because they're still a Black feminist punk/riot grrrl band. those influences are still very much present too #and personally I AM OBSESSED and I haven't even listened to half the album yet. I'll be buying it next Bandcamp Friday for sure #oh wow gosh CRYING over 'In My Arms' and THIS classic Big Joanie sound and guitar solos!!! :')#Big Joanie #crystal visions of lilies in the valley

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jasmancer · 11 months

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BLACK PUNK CRASH COURSE!!!

BLACK PUNK OGS

Death

X-Ray Spex

Bad Brains

Pure Hell

Fishbone

MODERN BLACK PUNK ARTISTS

Ho99o9

The Muslims

Pleasure Venom

Fuck U Pay Us

Big Joanie

Nova Twins

MORE NAMES TO KNOW

Tina Bell: frontwoman of the band Bam Bam, often called the Godmother of grunge because of its influence. Racism within the scene has led to her influence being pretty extensively erased but her bandmate and lifelong friend Scotty Buttocks has been working hard to counteract that by doing press and preserving their music here. Kurt fucking Cobain was their roadie

Betty Davis: 70s funk rock legend who just recently passed away. Incredibly unique performer that was way ahead of her time. Not to be confused with Bette Davis.

Sistah Grrrl Riots: A black punk collective put together in response to alienation and racism in the 90s punk and riot grrrl scenes. Organized by legends Tamar-Kali Brown, Honeychild Coleman, Maya Glick, and Simi Stone. You can read more about sistah grrrl in this article.

Ronnie Spector: Frontwoman of the Ronettes and rock n roll pioneer. Black girl groups were a huge influence on the sound of Rock n Roll as we know it from The Beatles to Led Zepplin to the Rolling Stones. She recently passed but her autobiography came out last year and it's worth the read.

READ A FUCKING BOOK

Black Diamond Queens: African American Women and Rock and Roll by Maureen Mahon

Rip It Up: The Black Experience in Rock N Roll by Kandia Crazy Horse (Anthology)

Shotgun Seamstress Zine Anthology by Osa Atoe

BONUS LINKS

POC Zine Project @poczineproject

Maya Glick's Storm fan film RAIN

Black Women in Rock Archive

IMDb for the documentary Afro-Punk (2003) currently not available for streaming in the US

#black punk #afropunk #riot grrrl #spider punk #hobie brown #that hobie playlist post made me see red so here u go #I literally just wrote a big ass paper on this shit so I had my sources ready 2 go #it speaks

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vttanon · 2 years

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in the past week my art has been compared to both the work of laurie anderson and barbara kruger.

i am feeling beyond blessed.

#barbara kruger #laurie anderson #surrealism #surrealist art #modern art #artist #punk #punk rock #riot grrrl #vendetta #vtta

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solar-sunnyside-up · 6 months

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hey! sorry to bother you, but is there anything a teen without transportation in a rural area can do on their own? im pretty isolated, and theres barely anything around me.

Hey ya sprout 🌱

**A disclaimer Punk comes with some risk socially. Particularly if your in a rural area this risk goes up bc people Know You and also typically these spaces have a different vibe to alt ppl in general. Some activities are more or less risky and I'll try and do my best to give you a range of stuff from the whole spectrum! Of course this is a generalization of rural areas. Some palaces will be more cool then others depending in so many factors I couldn't go into here**

Rural solarpunk

Your gunna been to pick a topic, sorry babe. In order to not burn yourself out and in order to feel like you have an impact your gunna have to pick a cause to chip away at but I'll give you ideas! And remember just bc your focusing on one thing doesn't mean your ignoring or not helping others. Everything is interconnected and any help, helps all!

So let's give you some ideas to focus on:

Libraries- as a teen in particular you'll have access to a library at school, but depending on how big your town is you might have a public one as well. Become their biggest supporter! They are a great safe space, even conservative ones are still a good place to go for archiving/loitering purposes. They give you spaces to print stuff, to build clubs and community.

Archiving- if you cannot leave your house due to access you can always do stuff online and hear me out, i know when we do stuff online it feels like half points. Like we arent doing anything. I feel that with this blog, it feels so passive no matter how hard you work youll feel lesser. But Archiving is vital to humans! Think of the anthropologists wholl thank you down the road! Plus it does actually give you a way to have a physical representative of work your doing. Dvds, pirating media and archiving them to drives, collecting vinyls/tapes/cds!

DIY- To fight against fast fashion (although that barely exists in the towns I've been in tbh) and to stick out** you could make your own patches, battlejackets, gloves, etc.. They are statement pieces you can wear whenever your in town/at school/social spaces that ppl know what you stand for and who you are. Depending on who/where you are this might be risky so take what you can bare ok? You don't have to wear these items too you can just make them for later on!

Little libraries/little pantries- in a rural space you have more Gruella tactics you can take if you do them in random abandoned spaces. You could build a waterproof little pantry and stock it and leave info somewhere about it for ppl to drop off/pick up items. Stock it with mittens! With canned goods! With books! You might be able to do a space like this at school/library depending in how cool your town is too!

Zines- You could look into making a zine and even if it's digital you could have the QR code for download in places (stickers on lamp posts, flyers in school bathrooms, hidden in a churches pamphlet stacks >.>) making a zine is a cool task that is time consuming and informative and fun!

Vandalism- like I said you can often print off stuff at Libraries, or usually you can find a place to print stuff off near or at post offices depending on how modern your rural space is. if you have your own printer this will reduce your risk by quite a bit though! Create/find stickers or posters you want to toss across town or even school. I'd recommend starting off with some stickers and see how their handled, dipping your toes is important with these kinda things. If your really feeling it, and you know some abandoned places Moss Graffiti is also a good option! I've know ppl who have converted old abandoned stored to skate parks (I honestly have no idea how they built the ramps out of concrete but damn!! Good job guys!)

Also I'll leave you with 2 book recommendations as well-

Moxie - a RIOT GRRRL story about a girl who gets so fed up with her conservative town she makes a feminist zine and distributes it via girl bathrooms (even having a basically me too stickers and encouraging ppl to put it on boys lockers who have assaulted them). I know there's a movie, didn't seem to capture the same vibe tho so book!

Braiding Sweetgrass - this focuses a lot on reconnecting and adding story to nature around us and having science along side spirituality

#sporut guide #reaping week #solarpunk #hopepunk #anticapitalism #punk #rural #cottagecore #community #ecopunk #direct action

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schlock-luster-video · 6 months

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On November 10, 2008, I Was a Teenage Serial Killer was screened at CPH: DOX.

Here's some new art to mark the occasion!

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bikini-kill-pilled · 2 days

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im really interested in the revival of riot grrrl; i think its absolutely possible for it to make a comeback, and i could even argue that it never actually went away...i mean, its definitely lost a bit of its edge, but their are bands coming out in its genre and they keep the spirit alive. anyway, the essential thing for the revival is that riot grrrl fixes its previous mistakes. i hate when people try to trivialize its importance because i do think it made a difference in the small span of time that it was really popular, but the main issues were how whitewashed it was, how it mostly focused on middle/upper suburban women, and how it (in my opinion mostly) centered a lot around reclaiming femininity, thereby neglecting gnc women who don't WANT to reclaim it. i found a cool article on black women in the feminist punk movement--specifically how they made their own movement, sista grrrl riot--and these quotes stood out to me. this ones by musician tamar kali brown:

"Being in this urban jungle, I was a different type of girl. I was hearing what they were saying, but I was living in an environment where people were getting stabbed. Riot Grrrl felt like a bubblegum expression. I was bald, and I would get a lot of negative attention that bordered on violence, so I wasn't in the world of [baby voice] 'You just think I can't play because I'm a girl!'

and this one by laronda davis:

"I never looked at a magazine and thought that that was what I was supposed to look like. On one hand, it's actually kind of liberating to not be what this standard of womanhood is. That standard put a lot of women in boxes, and they spend their li[ves] trying to get out of the box. Black women were never allowed in the box. I wasn't looking at TV saying, 'Oh, that represents me.' I wasn't listening to music telling about my experience. I had experiences that told me I wasn't concerned with these things that the happy songs were about."

(article here)

all in all i think what riot grrrl needs to change is its idea of a universal female childhood in their songs that we can all relate to. it kind of sucks to say but really all women do have in common are the stereotypes we're given, and when punk women criticized and defied those stereotypes they really shone; i was reading that people called kathleen hanna writing "slut" on her stomach white feminism and i was like....err. sexualization is something all women are subjected to. i've just been in a bit of a rabbit hole which started when i researched the history of trans people in riot grrrl, then to modern times when i found a claim that kathleen hanna had stopped using the line "all girls to the front" and edited her riot grrrl manifesto, and finally ended here with me thinking "man, riot grrrl's spirit is needed now more than ever, but like we need to make it WAAAAYYY better so it actually works out". the good news is, like i said, it hasn't actually faded out of mainstream consciousness.

i might add on to this in later posts. sorry if it's messy.

#talking and thinking #riot grrrl #radblr #radical feminism #radical feminist safe #radical feminist #radical feminists do interact #gender critical #radical feminist community #female separatism

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funeral-pyree · 4 months

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modern!ellie would love riot grrrl music i just know it. she definitely has a poster of bikini kill or just straight up kathleen hanna on her dorm walls. imagine her lighting a joint, pointing it in the direction of her poster, and going “this one’s for you kathy” 😭

#the last of us #tlou #ellie williams #ellie williams headcanons #ellie williams x reader #lucy writes

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trashy-hippy · 2 years

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love herrrr. @/nervarc on tt

#marina and the diamonds #music #hippie #ancient dreams in a modern land #froot #mitski #riot grrrl #lana del rey #norman rockwell #the family jewels #dollette #electra heart #lizzy grant #marina #marina diamandis #coquette

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poppletonink · 9 months

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10 Things I Hate About You Review

★★★★★ - 5 stars

"But mostly I hate the way I don't hate you. Not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all."

Katarina Stratford does not conform to everyone else's ideas of teenage normalcy: she doesn't wear things based on what's trendy, she likes indie rock music and feminist novels and most importantly, Katarina Stratford does not want to date. On the other hand, her sister, Bianca does want to date. After their father decides that Bianca can only date when Kat does, a boy named Cameron (who has a crush on Bianca) comes up with a plan to pay someone to date Kat.

I love the characters in this film so very much. Kat is a feminist icon who I've idolised ever since I first watched this masterpiece. Bianca annoyed me at first but the whole punching Joey in the face thing was very cathartic for me, so she increased her placement in my favourite character ranks. Patrick Verona is amazing, and all of the Kats in the world know that not falling for him is a very trying task. Cameron, on the other hand, is the complete opposite of Patrick and yet he's extremely sweet and endearing - a hopeless romantic at heart (and a definite James Potter variant for sure).

It is safe to say that generally speaking feminism and rom-coms do not go hand-in-hand skipping down a flowery hill (what with most rom-coms being Chick Flicks, a controversial genre in the eyes of feminists everywhere). However, 10 Things I Hate About You manages to meld together these two assumedly opposing topics into an amazing masterpiece. It discusses a horrible idea formulated within society - that idea being that a woman cannot be in a relationship with a man, whilst retaining her status as a feminist. The irony of it is that feminism is about equality and yet we put this boundary between men and women, both of whom can be classified as feminists, and say 'No, you cannot date and wish for equal rights.' That's what is so wonderful about 10 Things I Hate About You: Kat Stratford is a feminist icon in her own right (what with her love of Sylvia Plath and riot grrrl bands, and her blatant "Well I suppose being male and an asshole makes you worthy of our time" comment) and yet she is also the star of a rom-com. She's a feminist who simultaneously "gets the guy".

Aside from the amazing characters and the amazing feminist representation of 10 Things, one of the best things about it is its music. Music plays such a big part in 10 Things, from it playing to represent the character's emotions to Kat wanting to start a band. The soundtrack overall is amazing, with riot-grrrl bands galore and Joan Jett as the queen of rock 'n' roll. Without a doubt my favourite musical moment of 10 Things is Heath Ledger singing "Can't Take My Eyes Off You"- it's one of the most romantic moments and an important part of Kat and Patrick's journey.

In case it could not be gathered from my prior statements, this modern, feminist adaptation of Shakespeare's Taming Of The Shrew is one of my favourite films of all time - on par with the likes of Dead Poet's Society and Clueless. It's wonderfully witty, romantic and heartwarming, and furiously feminist all in one - and if that does not convince you to watch it, then I don't really know what will.

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bikinikillarchives · 10 months

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THE JUDY SPOTS (1995), dir. Sadie Benning.

The Judy Spots is a collection of five short videos, debuted on MTV. Through the paper-maché, teenage girl puppet Judy, voiced by Kathleen Hanna, The Judy Spots discusses feelings of alienation (Judy Feels Sad), service industry and consumerization (Judy Hates Her Job), nightmares and trauma (Judy Has A Nightmare), divorce (Judy Goes To The Mall), and friendship (Judy Gets Mad).

Directed and created by Sadie Benning, producer Elisabeth Subrin, gaffer Matthew Buckingham, puppet construction by Clare Dolan, costume design by Sara O'Donnel, and set by Sadie, Matthew, Elisabath, and Anne Kugler. Soundtrack by Kathleen Hanna and Azalia Snail, with voice-overs by Kathleen (Judy) and Sadie (Courtney).

Sadie Benning (they/them) is an American artist and director whose work primarily consist of what they describe as "video diaries" shot on a PixelVision camera. They began their work at age 15 and by age 19, had shown their videos at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Sundance Institute, and at international film festivals. Benning, a lesbian, often discusses sexuality, gender, and feelings of isolation, among other themes in their work. Many of Benning's early videos feature Bikini Kill and riot grrrl songs. Benning is also a co-founder of feminist electronic rock band, Le Tigre, having left the band in 2000 and replaced by JD Samson.

#kathleen hanna #sadie benning #the judy spots #1995

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x-ladydisdain-x · 1 year

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I feel like most modern ‘riot grrrl’ isn’t angry enough. like yes it’s women or non men being loud but they’re not actually mad about anything they just like the aesthetic and the name. it’s also too produced & put together. what happened to riot grrrl being messy and desperate and diy. this isn’t punk this is indie pop with drums.

#just a thought maybe I’m wrong idk #but like the bands that came out of the riot grrrl resurgence don’t sound like riot grrrl #they sound put together and like. nice. and write about breakups and have no anger behind their music or words #not all of them but a lot #sometimes opal says stuff

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