Riot Grrrl

The early 1990s gave rise to many fads, trends, and subcultures. Riot Grrrl has been dismissed as just another of them, but had far greater ambitions and achieved far greater things. Motivation, inspiration, and cooperation led a group of activists to change the conversation, until the structures they railed against stepped in to change it back. What's the difference between having a message and controlling the narrative? Can the information we're giving you, filtered through the years, be trusted to make an accurate picture of an underground scene that was unfairly covered in the media? How can digital spaces replicate the conditions that fostered Riot Grrrl?

Links!

• Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution
• Girl Germs, a podcast about Bratmobile's first album, Pottymouth
• Don't Need You - The Herstory of Riot Grrrl
• Jigsaw
• The Riot Grrrl Collection
• Gallery of Zine covers
• Newsweek's infamous Riot Grrrl story

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Logo by Marah

Intro and outro by Thylacinus

Bikini Kill "Double Dare Ya"

Bratmobile "Girl Germs"

Heavens to Betsy "Firefly"

Censor beep by Frank West of The FPlus