OH HAI RGP I’M GLAD YR BACK. I SEE GUITAR PRACTICE IS GOING WELL.

yourcharmsyourharm:

The real “Riot Girl”.

get it grrrl

riotgrrrljacksonville:

familiarexcuses:

riotgrrrljacksonville:

suzy-x:

THANK GODDESS WHERE THE FUCK WERE Y’ALL WHEN I WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL

Working at Panera. ;)

which one ??? i’m always at the one near regency

I worked at the one with Suzy a few years ago. I’m a clinic escort now. :)

Muahaha, Tiffany! That’s so rad that you’re doing this work. Jacksonville NEEDS more pro-choice folks, I mean desperately. I went back a few months ago and wanted to barf at all the Christian CPC billboards.

Hey, thanks! Well, riot grrrl was/is a pretty complex movement with some complex people. Sure, its origins in the Pacific Northwest made it inevitable that it would be a very white-dominated movement during its most active years. (The class background of its founders was mixed, though most of them were college students.) They generally wrote/sang a lot about gendered violence, punk music, sex work, relationships (most often hetero) and body image (of course, from a white perspective). They might have naively intended to speak universally for everyone, but you have to take it all with a grain of salt because most of them were in their teens-20s and surrounded almost entirely by white people.

Girls To The Front did give some quick mentions to people of color in the movement, as well as the fact that a few riot grrrls (like Molly Neuman) actively took part in anti-racist organizing. Later on, more women of color adopted riot grrrl and addressed their own concerns about gender and race through zines and punk music. POC zinesters Mimi Nguyen and Osa Atoe have in fact started the POC Zine Project because riot grrrl has been too white for too long.

So like, of course it was started by white folks for white folks, but riot grrrls of color definitely exist. And in the spirit of DIY, if our concerns aren’t addressed and our needs aren’t met in a movement then we fix that shit ourselves.

Late night screenprinting— making dozens of riot grrrl “feminist magic wand” patches.

Wellll a good place to start is the Bluestockings event calendar. It’s a radical bookstore in downtown Manhattan that hosts a lot of happenings, but if you visit the store you’ll see a wide range of flyers for outside events. Also, there’s a Riot Grrrl archive at NYU, and if you travel uptown to Barnard you’ll find the official Zine Library. And you should check out Permanent Wave, an artsy feminist group that puts on lots of fabulous shows and sells delectable baked goods. Have a great time!

tabithasays:

art by billy karren

jamiesinverguenza:

[Image: a young Asian woman (left) and a young dark-skinned black woman (right) seated at a table covered in zines and magazines.]

butterflyrevolt:

PoC ZINE PROJECT

1. If you haven’t already look into the POC Zine Project, and look into Mimi Thi Nguyen and Osa Atoe’s work. It is so brilliant and so worth reading.

2. Still not over the fact that I got to participate in a reading with these two ladies. Highest of honors.

ATTN: RIOT GRRRLS OF COLOR

Pop-tinged melodic punk is all very well, but sometimes you really just want to hear some really fucking loud guitars and lots of shouting. Step forward Brooklyn trio Shady Hawkins, who are only happy to oblige — their songs sound like they were recorded in the garage, and are all the better for it (notwithstanding their amusingly self-effacing Bandcamp bio: “fuck it, we’re better live”). And, of course, we’re all for puntastic band names that riff on celebrities. We can’t find any of their stuff on YouTube, but check out their five-song EP Sucia!

YES. Because you know, if the dominant cultural narrative about riot grrrl doesn’t recognize that we exist, then I guess we probably don’t

The Frumpies, “Whatshisname Hearts The Frumpies”

I don’t know what it is about getting gussied up for the show tonight and listening to Babies & Bunnies on vinyl. But it feels really, really good.