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Grrrl Love and Revolution

In the 1990s I had the tremendous fortune to hang out with some of the smartest, coolest women I’ve ever known. We bonded over love of Bikini Kill and Tribe 8 and disgust at the anti-feminist backlash. We argued politics, … Continue reading

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Riot Grrrl Re/viewed

Brooklyn-based writer Sara Marcus did something I’ve thought of doing, but never had the balls: wrote a history of Riot Grrrl. She did a damn fine job and I said so in the LA Times. Let the hateration begin.

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Angry Women in Rock Redux

I love this quote from Joan Jett in the Guardian: Joan Jett would go even further than that: she thinks a new revolution is on its way. “I think we’re coming back to that fertile ground where people have had … Continue reading

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