Collection development policy the riot grrrl collection. In the early 1990s, the riot grrrl movement encouraged zines of a raw and explicit nature. Riot grrrl still exists, with branches, networks and zines still working all over the world as demonstrated by this riot girl london zine, first issued in 2001. Since beginning in the 1990s, the riot grrrl movement spread across the world with riot grrrl bands being established in brazil, paraguay, israel, australia, malaysia, and across europe. Thomas paine published a popular pamphlet called common sense that led to a zine revolution. Descriptions are available on the individual zine pages click on the titles or in our catalog. Also zines from the zine machine, a vending machine full of em.
Jun 05, 2011 now, two decades after its heyday, riot grrrl is beginning to formally take stock of itself. For the past two decades, young women and men have found their way to feminism through riot grrrl. This is an alphabetical list of all the zines we carry with links to download them in pdf format. Recently, though, its been reanimated in retrospective form by things like marcus book, the acquisition of the riot grrrl collection of zines and memorabilia by nyus fales library, and the. Riottemptresses kyus riottemptresses was a zine published by the riot grrrl kentucky chapter based in lexington, ky in the early 1990s. Riot grrrl simple english wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The riot grrrl retrospective is an indepth online exhibit that seeks to document and offer new insight into this important musical phenomenon. A lot of my zine collection from back then is gone now but a few years ago i started selling the ones i still have on etsy. Most riot grrrl scholars thus problematically maintain white riot grrrls binary of girlboy that excludes racial difference. One of the remaining advantages to print fanzines is the ability to print high quality art. Riot grrrl bonus web 1 le riot style arte creative. Some zines are even distributed electronically, as downloadable pdf files, and some of those are controversially still sold, even as file version. Collection development policy the riot grrrl collection at. See more ideas about zine, riot grrrl and feminist art.
They question, explore, lecture, and rant with a broad spectrum of opinions and a shared openness and authenticity, making them excellent primary source material. The name riot grrrl is frequently attributed to jen smith, an artist and musician. Special collections including zines relating to avantgarde, underground, and popular music, blakes 7 fanzines, fan fiction, apazines, science fiction fanzines, star trek, star wars, and riot grrrl. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. First riot grrrl exhibition explores the lasting impact of. Kathleen hannas band the bikini kill made riot grrrl famous. Girls to the front is the epic, definitive history of riot grrrl, the radical feminist uprising that exploded into the public eye in the 1990s and included incendiary punk bands bikini kill, bratmobile, heavens to betsy, and huggy bear. A resource site for international grrrl, lady, queer and trans folk zines. The globalization of the riot grrrl movement was aided by the distribution of zines across asia, europe, and south america. Punk rock and riot grrrl community ethos are fundamental to zines, not just as the cultures that birthed them in their current incarnation, but also as what separates them from other selfpublications. Femaleonly riot grrrl meetings included zine makers, activists, artists, musicians, and members of the punk community in their teens and early twenties.
I made several zine grab bags and called them riot grrrl nostalgia grab bags. Jan 14, 2018 riot grrrl press was a zine distro in the 1990s. Flapper gathering is a zine i started making for riot grrrl belgium, to give people in and outside of belgium some more info about riot grrrl, riot grrrl related projects and writings about feminism activism diy gender anticapitalism art and more. I will describe how to make a zine using the computer in this booklet. The riot grrrl collection by lisa darms, paperback barnes. We now call them the riot grrls, after one of the zines that they created of the same name. Most of what i know about privilege comes from zines. The term grrrl originated in the early 1990s in the riot grrrl movement originating in washington state. The riot grrrl collection at fales library and special collections the riot grrrl collection is about the futurethinking ahead to the status of materials in one hundred years. Bratmobile was another influential riot grrrl band.
The counterfeit crochet project critique of a political economy 2006ongoing, installation shot. The art and politics of riot grrrl in pictures music. Pander, riot grrrl press, basement children, word is a weapon, bitch all of these distros carry many zines. Riot grrrl activism involved meetings, the creation of zines, and a nationwide network of support for women in music. Zines of this era ranged from perzines of all varieties to those that covered an assortment of different and obscure topics. Theres one i still have it was called riot sounds make riots and it had bikini kill. There will be a rigorous schedule of readings rooted in women and gender studies, intersectional feminism, queer studies, cultural studies, and critical librarianship, as well as histories of zines and alternative publishing. We encourage people to download and share these zines and use the files to create their own distro projects.
Zines have a punk, anarchist, feminist history contemporary zines have their roots in the punk and riot grrrl scenes of the 80s and 90s there are some science fiction zines going back to the late 1930s there were zines about racial justice coming out of the harlem renaissance history of zines. Empowerment, and diy selfpublishing we are the revolution. When we were visioning for a name for our program in 2004, we kept coming back to the concepts so well articulated in the riot grrrl manifesto. Later on, in the 80s and 90s, zines played an important role in the development of the queercore and riot grrrl movements. Molly neuman riot grrrl collection, 19862002 bulk 19881996 mimi thi nguyen zine collection, in collaboration with the people of color zine project, 19921998 outpunk archive, 19891998. Riot grrrl is the gateway drug that girls use to find feminist history. Girls to the front is an excellent history of a very specific time period that gets covers punk rock, feminism, media, politics and teenage girls and where they intersected to form riot grrrl. I have been writing and collecting zines since 1995. Males were the majority of zinesters up until the early 1990s. The riot grrrl movement exploded in the 1990s, bringing feminist perspectives to the forefront of punk culture. One of the more infamous origin stories for riot grrrl lies. Riot grrrl is an underground feminist punk rock movement.
The fashion pendulum may have inevitably swung back to the 90s, but riot grrrl, with its snarky cutandpaste zines and carefully built microcommunities, prefigures a lot of youth culture. Mostly youth oriented, riot grrrl was neither an organization or a specific thought, but instead thrived on non hierarchal chapters set up across america and parts of europe connecting mostly young women with music, a thriving zine scene, and direct political action. Riot grrrl manifesto by kathleen hanna bikini kill zine 2, 1991 because us girls crave records and books and fanzines that speak to us that we feel included in and can understand in our own ways. Riot grrrl was an underground feminist movement that began in the early nineties, which was closely tied to punk music, radical politics, and a diy aesthetic. 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. While the founding members of riot grrrl eventually moved back to olympia and started another riot grrrl chapter there, riot grrrl dc continued to hold weekly meetings and produce zines. Download pdf theriotgrrrlcollection free online new.
Grrrl zine network a resource site for international grrrl, lady, queer and trans folk zines, distros and diy projects. A grassroots third wave feminist movement deeply connected to the punk rock scene in the early and mid 1990s. Less has been said about the legacy of this movement in contemporary radical. Search, discover and share your favorite riot grrrl gifs. This course will explore several library and archival zine collections in the pioneer valley, including the girl zines. Miranda july on riot grrrl the pew center for arts. A dynamic chronicle not just a movement but an era, this is the story of a group of pissedoff girls with no patience for sexism and no. She discovered riot grrrl in the late 90s at sixthform college, when my new indie friends made me mixtapes.
Zines were used to get the word out and create communities in which people could share their stories, experiences and views. Apr 10, 2014 a sampling of zines and distribution catalogs primarily from the original riot grrrl movement. Riot grrrl is associated with zine culture and third wave feminism zines. The riot grrrl collection by lisa darms, paperback. Mar 03, 2009 she discovered riot grrrl in the late 90s at sixthform college, when my new indie friends made me mixtapes. Lets pretend its 1993 and send each other letters with zines and glitter and mixtapes and suchlike. In 1992 a zine distro called riot grrrl press was started by erika reinstein and may summer. The following 11 files are in this category, out of 11 total. Hanna and members of bands like bratmobile donated personal papers, letters, zines. Zine writers, especially those coming out of the riot grrrl movement, give a lot of consideration to discussions of race, class, gender preference, and many other types of privilege.
Riot grrrl zines and feminist rhetorics peter lang, 2018, a group of girls and young women were about to start making their own waves. And yet the lack and creation of space has been a prominent question for riot grrrl scholars, feminist scholars and race scholars alike. Zines are selfpublished, but the motivation behind their publication is different than that driving many vanity press and chapbook authors. Riot grrrl is 44 the zine also included an article on fat oppression and a list of the top ten sexist responses to feminist beliefs and suggestions on how to rebut them. Nov 16, 2011 recently, though, its been reanimated in retrospective form by things like marcus book, the acquisition of the riot grrrl collection of zines and memorabilia by nyus fales library, and the. Why zines are important to me also in quarantine times. Uses streaming audio and video as well as artifacts and performance footage and presents the history of riot grrrl as told by the participants. Much has been written about the absorption of riot grrrl into mainstream forms such as the spice girls. The riot grrrl movement still inspires the new york times. 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. In the 1990s, the riot grrrl movement burst onto the scene with a number of welldistributed feminist zines such as bust, which later became a major magazine in its own right. They question, explore, lecture, and rant with a broad spectrum of opinions and a shared openness and authenticity, making them excellent primary source. Send your zine to online places like world wide punk.
Using zines, music and a general flair for the diy aesthetic, icons like kathleen hanna and allison wolfe tackled not only the sexist sentiments infiltrating punk and art scenes, but the violent and homophobic attitudes that surrounded them. Riot grrrl, race, and revival mimi thi nguyen a a departments of gender and womens studies and asian american studies, university of illinois, urbanachampaign, usa published online. They pushed for gender equality in the zine community, and brought about an era of increasingly political zines covering controversial issues. I only heard about riot grrrl and the associated bands long after they were over, and so often in the context of how it fell apart. Zines are still in production albeit in fewer numbers. Sometimes looseknit and sometimes tightly bonded, riot grrrl collectives acted as spaces for discussion and organising, as well as goofing around making up songs and communally produced zines.
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