Riot Grrrl!

It's been a while since I last updated this blog. However, that's going to change. School was just really driving me crazy this past month or so. Anyways, I wrote one of my final papers on the history of riot grrrl. I decided that I would repost the manifesto on this blog because I love it soooooo much!

The Riot Grrrl Manifesto

"Riot grrrl is…

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

BECAUSE viewing our work as being connected to our girlfriends-politics-real lives is
essential if we are gonna figure out how what we are doing impacts, reflects, perpetuates,
or DISRUPTS the status quo

BECAUSE we don’t want to assimilate to someone else’s (Boy) standards of what is or
isn’t ‘good’ music or punk rock or ‘good’ writing AND THUS need to create forums
where we can recreate, destroy, and define our own visions

BECAUSE we know that life is much more than physical survival and are patently aware
that the punk rock “you can do anything” idea is crucial to the coming angry grrrl rock
revolution which seeks to save the psychic and cultural lives of girls and women
everywhere, according to their own terms, not ours

BECAUSE doing/reading/seeing/hearing cool things that validate and challenge us can
help us gain the strength and sense of community that we need in order to figure out how
bullshit like racism, able-bodism, ageism, speciesism, classism, thinism, sexism, anti-
Semitism and heterosexism figures in our own lives

BECAUSE we are angry at a society that tells us Girl=Dumb, Girl=Bad, Girl=Weak

BECAUSE I believe with my holeheartmindbody that girls constitute a revolutionarysoul force that can, and will, change the world for real"


I can't help but love that.......