Riot grrrl, the Glossary
Riot grrrl is an underground feminist punk movement that began during the early 1990s within the United States in Olympia, Washington, and the greater Pacific Northwest, and has expanded to at least 26 other countries.[1]
Table of Contents
348 relations: Ablaze!, Adickdid, Afro-punk, Agency (philosophy), Alec Empire, All-female band, Allison Wolfe, Alternative rock, Ana da Silva, Anarchism, Ari Up, Arlington County, Virginia, Art gallery, Astria Suparak, Atari Teenage Riot, Atlantic Ocean, Australia, Autoclave (band), Babes in Toyland (band), Barnard College, BBC, Beat Happening, Becca Albee, Beefeater (band), Beth Ditto, Bikini Kill, Bikini Kill (EP), Billboard (magazine), Billboard charts, Billy Karren, Bitch (slang), Body image, Bratmobile, Brazil, Brighton, But I'm a Cheerleader, C86, Calvin Johnson (musician), Canada, Candice Pedersen, Carrie Brownstein, Cassette culture, Chainsaw Records, Chalk Circle (American band), Chicago Reader, ChickClick, Christina Billotte, City Fun, Class discrimination, Classic Rock (magazine), ... Expand index (298 more) »
- Generation X
- Hardcore punk genres
- Political music genres
- Queercore
- Women in music
- Women-related neologisms
Ablaze!
Ablaze! is a British indie music fanzine, produced in Manchester and Leeds. Riot grrrl and Ablaze! are fanzines.
Adickdid
Adickdid was an American all-female punk rock band, started in the early 1990s in Eugene, Oregon, United States, by Kaia Wilson, Nalini Cheriel, and Sara Shelton Bellum.
Afro-punk
Afro-punk (sometimes spelled Afro-Punk, Afropunk or AfroPunk) refers to the participation of African Americans and other Black people in punk and alternative subcultures, especially in the United States. Riot grrrl and Afro-punk are DIY culture.
Agency (philosophy)
Agency is the capacity of an actor to act in a given environment.
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Alec Empire
Alec Empire (born Alexander Wilke-Steinhof on 2 May 1972)https://www.alec-empire.com/ae Alec Empire official website biography is a German experimental electronic musician who is best known as a founding member of the band Atari Teenage Riot, as well as a solo artist, producer and DJ.
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All-female band
An all-female band is a musical group in popular music that is exclusively composed of female musicians. Riot grrrl and all-female band are women in music.
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Allison Wolfe
Allison Wolfe (born November 9, 1969) is a Los Angeles–based singer, songwriter, writer, and podcaster.
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Alternative rock
Alternative rock (also known as alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a category of rock music that evolved from the independent music underground of the 1970s. Riot grrrl and alternative rock are 1990s fads and trends, 1990s in music, 2000s in music and American styles of music.
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Ana da Silva
Ana da Silva is a musician, best known as a founding member of post-punk rock band the Raincoats.
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Anarchism
Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is against all forms of authority and seeks to abolish the institutions it claims maintain unnecessary coercion and hierarchy, typically including the state and capitalism.
Ari Up
Ariane Daniele Forster (17 January 1962 – 20 October 2010), known by her stage name Ari Up, was a German vocalist best known as a member of the English punk rock band the Slits.
Arlington County, Virginia
Arlington County, or simply Arlington, is a county in the U.S. state of Virginia.
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Art gallery
An art gallery is a room or a building in which visual art is displayed.
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Astria Suparak
Astria Suparak is an American artist and curator from Los Angeles, California.
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Atari Teenage Riot
Atari Teenage Riot (ATR) is a German band formed in Berlin in 1992.
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Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.
Autoclave (band)
Autoclave was an American indie rock band, based in Washington, D.C. Their releases were on local label Dischord Records.
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Babes in Toyland (band)
Babes in Toyland was an American alternative rock band from Minneapolis, Minnesota, formed in 1987.
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Barnard College
Barnard College, officially titled as Barnard College, Columbia University, is a private women's liberal arts college in the borough of Manhattan in New York City.
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.
Beat Happening
Beat Happening was an American indie pop band formed in Olympia, Washington, in 1982.
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Becca Albee
Becca Albee is an American musician and visual artist who was a founding member of the band Excuse 17, which was an early pioneer in the riot grrrl and third-wave feminism movements. Riot grrrl and Becca Albee are third-wave feminism.
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Beefeater (band)
Beefeater was an American post-hardcore band from late 1984 until late 1986.
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Beth Ditto
Mary Beth Patterson (born February 19, 1981), known by her stage name Beth Ditto, is an American singer and songwriter most notable for her work with the indie rock band Gossip.
Bikini Kill
Bikini Kill is an American punk rock band formed in Olympia, Washington, in October 1990. Riot grrrl and Bikini Kill are third-wave feminism.
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Bikini Kill (EP)
Bikini Kill is the first EP by the American punk rock band Bikini Kill led by singer Kathleen Hanna.
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Billboard (magazine)
Billboard (stylized in lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation.
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Billboard charts
The Billboard charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of songs and albums in the United States and elsewhere.
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Billy Karren
William Francis Karren is an American musician, best known as the lead guitarist of the punk/riot grrrl band Bikini Kill, formed by Kathleen Hanna, with Karren, Tobi Vail and Kathi Wilcox.
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Bitch (slang)
Bitch is a pejorative slang word for a person, usually a woman.
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Body image
Body image is a person's thoughts, feelings and perception of the aesthetics or sexual attractiveness of their own body. Riot grrrl and body image are feminist theory.
Bratmobile
Bratmobile is an American punk band from Olympia, Washington, formed in 1991.
Brazil
Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.
Brighton
Brighton is a seaside resort and one of the two main areas of the city of Brighton and Hove in the county of East Sussex, England.
But I'm a Cheerleader
But I'm a Cheerleader is a 1999 American satirical teen romantic comedy film directed by Jamie Babbit in her feature directorial debut and written by Brian Wayne Peterson.
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C86
C86 is a cassette compilation released by the British music magazine NME in 1986, featuring new bands licensed from British independent record labels of the time.
Calvin Johnson (musician)
Calvin Johnson (born November 1, 1962) is an American guitarist, vocalist, songwriter, music producer, and disc jockey.
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Canada
Canada is a country in North America.
Candice Pedersen
Candice Pedersen co-owned the Olympia, Washington-based independent record label K Records from 1986 to 1999, along with Calvin Johnson of Beat Happening.
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Carrie Brownstein
Carrie Rachel Brownstein (born September 27, 1974) is an American musician, actress, writer, director, and comedian.
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Cassette culture
The cassette culture (also known as the tape/cassette scene or cassette underground) refers to the practices associated with amateur production and distribution of music and sound art on compact cassette that emerged in the mid-1970s. Riot grrrl and cassette culture are cassette culture 1970s–1990s, DIY culture and musical subcultures.
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Chainsaw Records
Chainsaw Records is an independent record label run by Donna Dresch that is devoted to Queercore bands. Riot grrrl and Chainsaw Records are zines.
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Chalk Circle (American band)
Chalk Circle were an American punk rock band formed in 1981 in Washington, D.C. Their raw, rhythmic, minimal sound had more in common with post-punk or art punk than D.C. hardcore, a community they initially helped pioneer.
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Chicago Reader
The Chicago Reader, or Reader (stylized as ЯEADER), is an American alternative newspaper in Chicago, Illinois, noted for its literary style of journalism and coverage of the arts, particularly film and theater.
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ChickClick
ChickClick was an American website for women that was online from 1998 to 2002. Riot grrrl and ChickClick are third-wave feminism and zines.
Christina Billotte
Christina Billotte is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist, known for her involvement in the punk music scene in Washington, D.C., as a performer and organizer.
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City Fun
City Fun was a magazine/fanzine documenting the music scene in Manchester, England, between 1977 and 1984 and sold up to 2000 copies per issue via gigs, music stores, and selected news agents across Manchester, Liverpool, Sheffield and Leeds. Riot grrrl and City Fun are fanzines.
Class discrimination
Class discrimination, also known as classism, is prejudice or discrimination on the basis of social class.
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Classic Rock (magazine)
Classic Rock is a British magazine and website dedicated to rock music, owned and published by Future.
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Collage
Collage (from the coller, "to glue" or "to stick together") is a technique of art creation, primarily used in the visual arts, but in music too, by which art results from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole.
Corin Tucker
Corin Lisa Tucker (born November 9, 1972) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known for her work with rock band Sleater-Kinney.
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Counterculture
A counterculture is a culture whose values and norms of behavior differ substantially from those of mainstream society, sometimes diametrically opposed to mainstream cultural mores.
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Courtney Love
Courtney Michelle Love (née Harrison; born July 9, 1964) is an American singer, guitarist, songwriter, and actress.
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Cunt
Cunt is a vulgar word for the vulva.
Cynthia Connolly
Cynthia Connolly (born 1964) is an American photographer, curator, graphic designer, and artist.
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Dave Grohl
David Eric Grohl (born January 14, 1969) is an American musician.
Dictator
A dictator is a political leader who possesses absolute power.
District of Columbia Public Library
The District of Columbia Public Library (DCPL) is the public library system for Washington, D.C. The system includes 26 individual libraries including Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, DCPL's central library.
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Do it yourself
"Do it yourself" ("DIY") is the method of building, modifying, or repairing things by oneself without the direct aid of professionals or certified experts. Riot grrrl and do it yourself are cassette culture 1970s–1990s and DIY culture.
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Domestic violence
Domestic violence is violence or other abuse that occurs in a domestic setting, such as in a marriage or cohabitation.
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Donita Sparks
Donita Sparks (born April 8, 1963) is an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter most notable for being the co-founder of the band L7.
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Donna Dresch
Donna Dresch is an American punk rock musician, perhaps best known as founder, guitarist and bass guitarist of Team Dresch. Riot grrrl and Donna Dresch are third-wave feminism.
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Dyke (slang)
Dyke is a slang term, used as a noun meaning lesbian.
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Eating disorder
An eating disorder is a mental disorder defined by abnormal eating behaviors that adversely affect a person's physical or mental health.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is an international non-profit digital rights group based in San Francisco, California.
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Emily's Sassy Lime
Emily's Sassy Lime (a palindrome) was an American punk rock group from Southern California.
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Empowerment
Empowerment is the degree of autonomy and self-determination in people and in communities.
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
Erin Smith (musician)
Erin Smith (born August 16, 1972) in Washington, D.C., is best known for being the guitarist of riot grrrl band Bratmobile, a band with drummer Molly Neuman and vocalist Allison Wolfe.
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Eugene, Oregon
Eugene is a city in and the county seat of Lane County, Oregon, United States.
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Evergreen State College
The Evergreen State College is a public liberal arts college in Olympia, Washington.
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Excuse 17
Excuse 17 was a punk rock band from Olympia, Washington, US, that performed and recorded from 1993 to 1995.
Extended play
An Extended Play (EP) is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single but fewer than an album or LP record.
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Fales Library
New York University's Fales Library and Special Collections is located on the third floor of the Elmer Holmes Bobst Library at 70 Washington Square South between LaGuardia Place and the Schwartz Plaza, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.
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Fastbacks
Fastbacks are a Seattle, Washington, punk rock band.
Feminism
Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes.
Feminist separatism
Feminist separatism is the theory that feminist opposition to patriarchy can be achieved through women's separation from men. Riot grrrl and feminist separatism are feminist theory.
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Fifth Column (band)
Fifth Column was a Canadian all-female post-punk band from Toronto, formed in 1980 and breaking up in 1995. Riot grrrl and Fifth Column (band) are cassette culture 1970s–1990s.
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Fire Party
Fire Party was a band from Washington, D.C. They were together from the autumn of 1986 to the spring of 1990.
Fourth-wave feminism
Fourth-wave feminism is a feminist movement that began around the early 2010s and is characterized by a focus on the empowerment of women, the use of internet tools, and intersectionality.
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Foxcore
Foxcore is a 1990s rock music genre of bands featuring female singers. Riot grrrl and Foxcore are hardcore punk genres.
Frightwig
Frightwig is an all-female punk rock band from San Francisco, California, formed in 1982 by Deanna Mitchell and Mia d'Bruzzi.
Fugazi
Fugazi was an American post-hardcore band formed in Washington, D.C., in 1986.
Gail O'Hara
Gail O'Hara is an American editor, writer, photographer, recording label owner and filmmaker.
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Gayle Wald
Gayle Wald is a professor of English and American Studies at George Washington University and a Guggenheim Fellow.
Gender identity
Gender identity is the personal sense of one's own gender.
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Genre
Genre (kind, sort) is any style or form of communication in any mode (written, spoken, digital, artistic, etc.) with socially agreed-upon conventions developed over time.
George W. Bush
George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician and businessman who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009.
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Girl Germs
Girl Germs was a zine created by University of Oregon students Allison Wolfe and Molly Neuman, both members of the band Bratmobile. Riot grrrl and Girl Germs are fanzines and zines.
Girl power
Girl power is a slogan that encourages and celebrates women's empowerment, independence, confidence and strength. Riot grrrl and Girl power are 1990s fads and trends, feminist theory and third-wave feminism.
Girl Trouble (band)
Girl Trouble is a garage rock band formed in 1983, composed of three musicians from Tacoma, Washington and one from Spokane, Washington.
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Gloria Steinem
Gloria Marie Steinem (born March 25, 1934) is an American journalist and social-political activist who emerged as a nationally recognized leader of second-wave feminism in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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Gossip (band)
Gossip (or The Gossip) is an American indie rock band formed in Searcy, Arkansas.
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Guerrilla Girls
Guerrilla Girls is an anonymous group of feminist, female artists devoted to fighting sexism and racism within the art world. Riot grrrl and Guerrilla Girls are feminist theory.
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Gurl.com
Gurl.com (pronounced "girl dot com"; formerly stylized as gURL.com from 1996 to 2011) was an American website for teenage girls that was online from 1996 to 2018. Riot grrrl and Gurl.com are third-wave feminism and zines.
Hair clip
A barrette (American English), also known as a hair slide (British English), or a hair clip, is a clasp for holding hair in place.
Hal Leonard
Hal Leonard LLC (formerly Hal Leonard Corporation) is an American music publishing and distribution company founded in Winona, Minnesota, by Harold "Hal" Edstrom, his brother, Everett "Leonard" Edstrom, and fellow musician Roger Busdicker.
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Hardcore punk
Hardcore punk (commonly abbreviated to hardcore or hXc) is a punk rock subgenre and subculture that originated in the late 1970s. Riot grrrl and hardcore punk are DIY culture, musical subcultures and punk rock genres.
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Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Heather Lewis (musician)
Heather Lewis (born 1962) is an American multi-instrumentalist and founding member of Beat Happening.
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Heavens to Betsy
Heavens to Betsy was an American punk band formed in Olympia, Washington in 1991 with vocalist and guitarist Corin Tucker and drummer Tracy Sawyer.
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Henry Rollins
Henry Lawrence Garfield (born February 13, 1961), known professionally as Henry Rollins, is an American singer, writer, spoken word artist, actor, and presenter.
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Herstory
Herstory is a term for history written from a feminist perspective and emphasizing the role of women, or told from a woman's point of view.
Hipster (contemporary subculture)
The 21st-century hipster is a subculture (sometimes called hipsterism). Riot grrrl and hipster (contemporary subculture) are 1990s fads and trends.
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Hole (band)
Hole was an American alternative rock band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1989. Riot grrrl and Hole (band) are third-wave feminism.
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Homophobia
Homophobia encompasses a range of negative attitudes and feelings toward homosexuality or people who identify or are perceived as being lesbian, gay or bisexual.
Hooliganism
Hooliganism is disruptive or unlawful behavior such as rioting, bullying and vandalism, often in connection with crowds at sporting events.
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Huggy Bear (band)
Huggy Bear were an English riot grrrl band, formed in 1991 and based in Brighton.
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Human sexuality
Human sexuality is the way people experience and express themselves sexually.
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Ian MacKaye
Ian Thomas Garner MacKaye (born April 16, 1962) is an American musician.
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Impose (magazine)
Impose is an American Kansas-based website covering independent music and related culture.
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Incest
Incest is human sexual activity between family members or close relatives.
Independent music
Independent music (also commonly known as indie music, or simply indie) is a broad style of music characterized by creative freedoms, low-budgets, and a do-it-yourself approach to music creation, which originated from the liberties afforded by independent record labels. Riot grrrl and independent music are cassette culture 1970s–1990s.
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Independent record label
An independent record label (or indie label) is a record label that operates without the funding or distribution of major record labels; they are a type of small- to medium-sized enterprise, or SME. Riot grrrl and independent record label are cassette culture 1970s–1990s.
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Indie music scene
An independent music scene is a localized independent music-oriented (or, more specifically, indie rock/indie pop-oriented) community of bands and their audiences. Riot grrrl and indie music scene are musical subcultures.
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Indie rock
Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom, United States and New Zealand in the early to mid-1980s. Riot grrrl and Indie rock are 2000s in music.
International Pop Underground Convention
The International Pop Underground Convention (or IPU) was a 1991 punk and alternative rock music festival in Olympia, Washington. Riot grrrl and International Pop Underground Convention are DIY culture.
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Intersectionality
Intersectionality is a sociological analytical framework for understanding how groups' and individuals' social and political identities result in unique combinations of discrimination and privilege. Riot grrrl and Intersectionality are feminist theory.
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Iowa State Daily
The Iowa State Daily is an independent student newspaper serving Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, that is published in print and online.
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Israel
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.
Jack Off Jill
Jack Off Jill was an American alternative rock band from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, founded in 1992 by vocalist Jessicka, drummer Tenni Ah-Cha-Cha, bassist/keyboardist Agent Moulder, and guitarist Michelle Inhell.
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Jad Fair
Jadwin B. Fair (born June 9, 1954) is an American singer, guitarist, graphic artist, and founding member of lo-fi alternative rock group Half Japanese.
JD Samson
Jocelyn Rachel Samson (born August 4, 1978), known professionally as JD Samson, is an American musician, producer, songwriter and DJ best known as a member of the bands Le Tigre and MEN. Riot grrrl and JD Samson are third-wave feminism.
Jean Smith
Jean Isabel Smith (born 1959) is a Canadian writer, painter and the lead singer of the Vancouver band Mecca Normal.
Jen Smith
Jen Smith is an artist, musician, zine editor, and activist from the United States.
Jenny Toomey
Jennifer Gillen Toomey (born 1968) is an American indie rock musician and arts activist.
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Jessica Hopper
Jessica Hopper (born September 5, 1976) is an American writer.
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Joan Jett
Joan Jett (born Joan Marie Larkin; September 22, 1958) is an American rock singer, guitarist, songwriter, record producer, and actress.
Johanna Fateman
Johanna Rachel Fateman (born May 16, 1974) is an American writer, songwriter, musician, and record producer.
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Juliana Luecking
Juliana Luecking is an American musician, spoken-word artist and video maker.
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K Records
K Records is an independent record label in Olympia, Washington founded in 1982. Riot grrrl and k Records are cassette culture 1970s–1990s.
Kaia Wilson
Kaia Lynn Wilson (born 1974) is an American musician from Portland, Oregon, best known as a founding member of both Team Dresch, a revered 1990s queercore punk band, and The Butchies, a pop-rock spin-off from her solo work.
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KAOS (FM)
KAOS (89.3 FM) is a hybrid college-community radio station licensed to The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington.
Kathi Wilcox
Kathi Lynn Wilcox (born November 19, 1969) is an American musician. Riot grrrl and Kathi Wilcox are third-wave feminism.
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Kathleen Hanna
Kathleen Hanna (born November 12, 1968) is an American singer, musician and pioneer of the feminist punk riot grrrl movement, and punk zine writer. Riot grrrl and Kathleen Hanna are third-wave feminism.
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Kill Rock Stars
Kill Rock Stars is an independent record label founded in 1991 by Slim Moon and Tinuviel Sampson, and based in both Olympia, Washington, and Portland, Oregon.
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Kim Deal
Kimberley Ann Deal (born June 10, 1961) is an American musician.
Kim Gordon
Kim Althea Gordon (born April 28, 1953) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and rapper best known as the bassist, guitarist, and vocalist of alternative rock band Sonic Youth.
Kinderwhore
Kinderwhore is a fashion style most notably worn by some female grunge and alternative rock musicians in the US during the early to mid-1990s.
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Kurt Cobain
Kurt Donald Cobain (February 20, 1967 – April 5, 1994) was an American musician who was the lead vocalist, guitarist, primary songwriter, and a founding member of the grunge band Nirvana.
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L7 (band)
L7 is an American all-female punk rock band founded in Los Angeles, California, first active from 1985 to 2001 and re-formed in 2014.
Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains
Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains is a 1982 teen musical drama film about three teenage girls, played by Diane Lane, Laura Dern and Marin Kanter, who start a punk band.
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Le Tigre
Le Tigre (French for "The Tiger") is an American art punk and riot grrrl band formed by Kathleen Hanna (of Bikini Kill), Johanna Fateman and Sadie Benning in 1998 in New York City.
Led Zeppelin II
Led Zeppelin II is the second studio album by the English rock band Led Zeppelin, released on 22 October 1969 in the United States and on 31 October 1969 in the United Kingdom by Atlantic Records.
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LGBT rights in Russia
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in Russia face severe challenges not experienced by non-LGBT residents.
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Lilith Fair
Lilith Fair was a concert tour and travelling music festival, founded by Canadian musician Sarah McLachlan, Nettwerk Music Group's Dan Fraser and Terry McBride, and New York talent agent Marty Diamond. Riot grrrl and Lilith Fair are women in music.
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Lisa Rose Apramian
Lisa Rose Apramian (Լիզա րոզ Աբրամիյան), also known as Dr.
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List of all-female bands
This is an alphabetized list of notable all-female bands, of all genres, and is a spin-off list from the all-female band article.
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List of riot grrrl bands
The following is a list of notable bands associated with riot grrrl from the early 1990s to the present, mainly in the United States and United Kingdom.
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Liz Phair
Elizabeth Clark Phair (born April 17, 1967) is an American rock singer-songwriter and musician.
Lois Maffeo
Lois Maffeo (professionally known for much of her career as Lois) is an American musician and writer who lives in Olympia, Washington.
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London
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.
Lookout Records
Lookout Records (stylized as Lookout! Records) was an independent record label, initially based in Laytonville, California, and later in Berkeley, focusing on punk rock.
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Lucy Thane
Lucy Thane (born 1967) is a British documentary filmmaker, event producer and performer, living in Folkestone.
Lunachicks
Lunachicks are an American punk rock band from New York City.
Mainstream media
In journalism, mainstream media (MSM) is a term and abbreviation used to refer collectively to the various large mass news media that influence many people and both reflect and shape prevailing currents of thought.
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Mainstream rock
Mainstream rock (also known as heritage rock) is a radio format used by many commercial radio stations in the United States and Canada.
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Malaysia
Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia.
Manchester
Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England, which had a population of 552,000 at the 2021 census.
Manifesto
A manifesto is a written declaration of the intentions, motives, or views of the issuer, be it an individual, group, political party, or government.
Margarita Alcantara
Sabrina Margarita Alcantara-Tan (born June 10, 1970) is a writer and the creator of the now inactive print zine series Bamboo Girl.
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Mary, mother of Jesus
Mary was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Joseph and the mother of Jesus.
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Mass media include the diverse arrays of media that reach a large audience via mass communication.
Maximum Rocknroll
Maximumrocknroll, often written as Maximum Rocknroll and usually abbreviated as MRR, is a not-for-profit monthly online zine of punk subculture and radio show of punk music.
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Mecca Normal
Mecca Normal is a two-piece indie rock band from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, formed by Jean Smith and David Lester in 1984.
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Media blackout is the censorship of news related to a certain topic, particularly in mass media, for any reason.
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Mental disorder
A mental disorder, also referred to as a mental illness, a mental health condition, or a psychiatric disability, is a behavioral or mental pattern that causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning.
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MeToo movement
#MeToo is a social movement and awareness campaign against sexual abuse, sexual harassment and rape culture, in which people publicize their experiences of sexual abuse or sexual harassment.
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Michigan Womyn's Music Festival
The Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, often referred to as MWMF or Michfest, was a lesbian feminist women's music festival held annually from 1976 to 2015 in Oceana County, Michigan, on privately owned woodland near Hart Township referred to as "The Land" by Michfest organizers and attendees.
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Mimi Thi Nguyen
Mimi Thi Nguyen (née Thanh-Huong Thi Nguyen; born in 1974) is a Vietnamese-born American scholar, punk and zine author.
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Misandry
Misandry is the hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against men or boys.
Mod (subculture)
Mod, from the word modernist, is a subculture that began in 1950s London and spread throughout Great Britain, eventually influencing fashions and trends in other countries. Riot grrrl and mod (subculture) are musical subcultures.
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Molly Neuman
Molly Neuman (born June 18, 1972) is an American drummer, writer and publisher, originally from the Washington, D.C. area who has performed in such influential bands as Bratmobile, the Frumpies, and the PeeChees.
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Moshing
Moshing (also known as slam dancing or simply slamming) is an extreme style of dancing in which participants push or slam into each other.
Mr. Lady Records
Mr.
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Multimedia is a form of communication that uses a combination of different content forms, such as writing, audio, images, animations, or video, into a single interactive presentation, in contrast to traditional mass media, such as printed material or audio recordings, which feature little to no interaction between users.
Museum of Pop Culture
The Museum of Pop Culture or MoPOP is a nonprofit museum in Seattle, Washington, United States, dedicated to contemporary popular culture.
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Music industry
The music industry refers to the individuals and organizations that earn money by writing songs and musical compositions, creating and selling recorded music and sheet music, presenting concerts, as well as the organizations that aid, train, represent and supply music creators.
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Music of Olympia, Washington
The port city of Olympia, Washington, has been a center of post-hardcore, anti-folk, and other youth-oriented musical genres since the late 1970s.
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New Jersey
New Jersey is a state situated within both the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States.
New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
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New York Public Library
The New York Public Library (NYPL) is a public library system in New York City.
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New York University
New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City, United States.
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New York University Press
New York University Press (or NYU Press) is a university press that is part of New York University.
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New-York Historical Society
The New-York Historical Society is an American history museum and library in New York City, along Central Park West between 76th and 77th Streets, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
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Newsweek
Newsweek is a weekly news magazine.
Nikki McClure
Nikki McClure is a papercut artist based in Olympia, Washington.
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Nirvana (band)
Nirvana was an American rock band formed in Aberdeen, Washington, in 1987.
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NME
New Musical Express (NME) is a British music, film, gaming, and culture website and brand.
North America
North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.
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Not Bad for a Girl
Not Bad for a Girl is a documentary on women musicians of the 1990s from the indie rock music genre grunge and riot grrrl and celebrates madness, creativity, and gender play. Riot grrrl and Not Bad for a Girl are third-wave feminism.
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Olympia, Washington
Olympia is the capital city of the U.S. state of Washington and the county seat of Thurston County.
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Online magazine
An online magazine is a magazine published on the Internet, through bulletin board systems and other forms of public computer networks. Riot grrrl and online magazine are zines.
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Oppression
Oppression is malicious or unjust treatment of, or exercise of power over, a group of individuals, often in the form of governmental authority or cultural opprobrium.
Oregon
Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.
Our Troubled Youth
Our Troubled Youth is the Huggy Bear side of a split album they released with Bikini Kill (whose side was entitled Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah).
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Pacific Northwest
The Pacific Northwest (PNW), sometimes referred to as Cascadia, is a geographic region in Western North America bounded by its coastal waters of the Pacific Ocean to the west and, loosely, by the Rocky Mountains to the east.
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Paraguay
Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay (República del Paraguay; Paraguái Tavakuairetã), is a landlocked country in South America.
Partyline
Partyline is an American, Washington, D.C.-based punk rock band, consisting of singer/songwriter Allison Wolfe (Bratmobile, Cold Cold Hearts, Dig Yr. Grave, Deep Lust, Hawnay Troof), guitarist Angela Melkisethian (The Hell Mutts, Hott Beat, The Savage Boys and Girls Club, Troll Tax), drummer Crystal Bradley, and touring drummer Gene Vincent Melkisethian (The Hell Mutts, The Savage Boys and Girls Club, No Justice).
Patriarchy
Patriarchy is a social system in which positions of dominance and privilege are held by men. Riot grrrl and Patriarchy are feminist theory.
Pitchfork (website)
Pitchfork (formerly Pitchfork Media) is an American online music publication founded in 1996 by Ryan Schreiber in Minneapolis.
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Political subjectivity
Political subjectivity is a term used to indicate the deeply embedded nature of subjectivity and subjective experience in a socially constructed system of power and meaning.
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Poly Styrene
Marianne Joan Elliott-Said (3 July 1957 – 25 April 2011), known by the stage name Poly Styrene, was an English musician, singer-songwriter, and frontwoman for the punk rock band X-Ray Spex.
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Pop music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Portland, Oregon
Portland is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Oregon, located in the Pacific Northwest region.
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Positioning theory
Positioning theory is a theory in social psychology that characterizes interactions between individuals.
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Positive Force
Positive Force DC is an activist organization founded in 1985 by members of the punk community in Washington, D.C. It has organized hundreds of benefit concerts for community and activist groups, and worked alongside Fugazi, Bikini Kill, Nation of Ulysses, Girls Against Boys, Q and Not U and other bands arising from the capital’s punk scene.
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Post-punk
Post-punk (originally called new musick) is a broad genre of music that emerged in 1977 in the wake of punk rock. Riot grrrl and Post-punk are punk rock genres.
Pottymouth
Pottymouth is the debut studio album by American punk rock band Bratmobile, released on June 8, 1993, by Kill Rock Stars.
Primary source
In the study of history as an academic discipline, a primary source (also called an original source) is an artifact, document, diary, manuscript, autobiography, recording, or any other source of information that was created at the time under study.
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Punk ideologies
Punk ideologies are a group of varied social and political beliefs associated with the punk subculture and punk rock.
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Punk Planet
Punk Planet was a 16,000 print run punk zine, based in Chicago, Illinois, that focused most of its energy on looking at punk subculture rather than punk as simply another genre of music to which teenagers listen.
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Punk rock
Punk rock (also known as simply punk) is a music genre that emerged in the mid-1970s. Riot grrrl and punk rock are 1990s in music and musical subcultures.
Punk subculture
The punk subculture includes a diverse and widely known array of music, ideologies, fashion, and other forms of expression, visual art, dance, literature, and film. Riot grrrl and punk subculture are musical subcultures.
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Punk zine
A punk zine (or punkzine) is a zine related to the punk subculture and hardcore punk music genre.
Pussy Riot
Pussy Riot is a Russian feminist protest and performance art group based in Moscow that became popular for its provocative punk rock music which later turned into a more accessible style.
Pussy Whipped
Pussy Whipped is the debut studio album by American punk rock band Bikini Kill.
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Putinism
Putinism (translit) is the social, political, and economic system of Russia formed during the political leadership of Vladimir Putin.
Queercore
Queercore (or homocore) is a cultural/social movement that began in the mid-1980s as an offshoot of the punk subculture and a music genre that comes from punk rock. Riot grrrl and Queercore are DIY culture, fanzines, hardcore punk genres, musical subcultures, punk rock genres and zines.
Quoting out of context
Quoting out of context (sometimes referred to as contextomy or quote mining) is an informal fallacy in which a passage is removed from its surrounding matter in such a way as to distort its intended meaning.
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Rachel Carns
Rachel Carns (born August 13, 1969) is an American musician, composer, artist and performer living in Olympia, Washington, U.S. Raised in small-town Wisconsin, she went on to study painting and drawing at Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City, where she completed her B.F.A.
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Racism
Racism is discrimination and prejudice against people based on their race or ethnicity.
Radical Act
Radical Act is a feature-length documentary by Tex Clark. Riot grrrl and Radical Act are women in music.
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Ramdasha Bikceem
Ramdasha Bikceem is an American writer, singer, and musician. Riot grrrl and Ramdasha Bikceem are fanzines and zines.
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Rape
Rape is a type of sexual assault involving sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual penetration carried out against a person without their consent.
Reappropriation
In linguistics, reappropriation, reclamation, or resignification is the cultural process by which a group reclaims words or artifacts that were previously used in a way disparaging of that group.
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Rebel Girl (Bikini Kill song)
"Rebel Girl" is a song by American punk rock band Bikini Kill.
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Reject All American
Reject All American is the second studio album by the American punk rock band Bikini Kill, released in 1996 by Kill Rock Stars.
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Revolution Girl Style Now
Revolution Girl Style Now is a demo album by the punk rock band Bikini Kill.
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Robert Christgau
Robert Thomas Christgau (born April 18, 1942) is an American music journalist and essayist.
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Rock Against Sexism
Rock Against Sexism (RAS) was a political and cultural movement dedicated to promoting women in music, and challenging sexism in the rock music community, pop culture and in the world at large.
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Roller derby
Roller derby is a roller skating contact sport played on an oval track by two teams of five skaters. Riot grrrl and roller derby are third-wave feminism.
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Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture.
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Rose Melberg
Rose Melberg is a musician and songwriter from Sacramento, California, currently based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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Rough Trade Records
Rough Trade Records is an independent record label based in London, England.
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Routledge
Routledge is a British multinational publisher.
Rowman & Littlefield
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group is an American independent academic publishing company founded in 1949.
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Russia
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.
San Francisco
San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.
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San Francisco Chronicle
The San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California.
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Sara Marcus
Sara Marcus is a writer and musician best known for her 2010 book Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution. She began her writing career as a participant in the riot grrrl movement, writing zines as a teenager in Washington, DC.
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Scooter (motorcycle)
A scooter (motor scooter) is a motorcycle with an underbone or step-through frame, a seat, a transmission that shifts without the operator having to operate a clutch lever, a platform for their feet, and with a method of operation that emphasizes comfort and fuel economy.
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Scrawl
Scrawl was an American indie rock trio based in Columbus, Ohio, and active from the mid-1980s.
Seattle
Seattle is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States.
Seattle Weekly
The Seattle Weekly is an alternative biweekly distributed newspaper in Seattle, Washington, United States.
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Seaweed (band)
Seaweed was an American alternative rock band from Tacoma, Washington, who were active throughout the 1990s.
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Seventeen (American magazine)
Seventeen is an American bimonthly teen magazine headquartered in New York City.
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Sexism
Sexism is prejudice or discrimination based on one's sex or gender.
Sexual abuse
Sexual abuse or sex abuse, also referred to as molestation, is abusive sexual behavior by one person upon another.
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Sexual assault
Sexual assault is an act in which one intentionally sexually touches another person without that person's consent, or coerces or physically forces a person to engage in a sexual act against their will.
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Sexual identity
Sexual identity refers to one's self-perception in terms of romantic or sexual attraction towards others, though not mutually exclusive, and can be different from romantic identity.
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Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet are a Juno Award-winning Canadian instrumental rock band, formed in 1984.
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Sharon Cheslow
Sharon Ann Cheslow (born October 5, 1961) is an American musician, composer, artist, writer, photographer, educator, and archivist.
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Sheffield
Sheffield is a city in South Yorkshire, England, whose name derives from the River Sheaf which runs through it.
Side project
In popular music, a side project is a project undertaken by one or more people already known for their involvement in another band.
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Simi Sernaker
Simi Sernaker, born Simantha Sernaker in 1979 and also known as Simi Stone, is an artist and the former frontwoman of the rock band Suffrajett.
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Simple Machines
Simple Machines was an American independent record label in Arlington, Virginia.
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Siouxsie Sioux
Susan Janet Ballion (born 27 May 1957), known professionally as Siouxsie Sioux, is an English singer, songwriter, musician and record producer.
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Sister George
Sister George were an English band from London, recognised as being significant in the 1990s queercore scene, who formed in 1993.
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Ski
A ski is a narrow strip of semi-rigid material worn underfoot to glide over snow.
Skinned Teen
Skinned Teen was a riot grrrl band from London, England, active in the early 1990s.
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Slampt
Slampt (also Slampt Underground Organisation) was a record label set up in Newcastle, England in 1992.
Slant 6
Slant 6 was an American punk rock trio based in Washington, D.C. affiliated with early riot grrrl.
Sleater-Kinney
Sleater-Kinney is an American rock band that formed in Olympia, Washington, in 1994. Riot grrrl and Sleater-Kinney are third-wave feminism.
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Sleepyhead (band)
Sleepyhead is an American indie rock band formed in 1989 in New York, New York, United States.
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Slim Moon
Matthew "Slim" Moon (born October 15, 1967) is an American musician and the founder of the American independent music label Kill Rock Stars (KRS).
Small press
A small press is a publisher with annual sales below a certain level or below a certain number of titles published.
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Social exclusion or social marginalisation is the social disadvantage and relegation to the fringe of society.
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Social privilege is an advantage or entitlement that benefits individuals belonging to certain groups, often to the detriment of others. Riot grrrl and Social privilege are feminist theory.
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Social stratification refers to a society's categorization of its people into groups based on socioeconomic factors like wealth, income, race, education, ethnicity, gender, occupation, social status, or derived power (social and political).
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Some Girls (band)
Some Girls (formed in 2001) is an American indie rock trio composed of Juliana Hatfield (guitar and vocals), Heidi Gluck (electric bass guitar, keyboard, harmonica, lap steel guitar, and vocals) and Freda Love Smith (drums and vocals).
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Some Velvet Sidewalk
Some Velvet Sidewalk was an experimental lo-fi rock band from Olympia, Washington on the independent label K Records.
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Sophia Smith Collection
The Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College is an internationally recognized repository of manuscripts, photographs, periodicals and other primary sources in women's history. Riot grrrl and Sophia Smith Collection are feminist theory.
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Spice Girls
The Spice Girls were an English girl group formed in 1994, consisting of Mel B ("Scary Spice"); Melanie C ("Sporty Spice"); Emma Bunton ("Baby Spice"); Geri Halliwell ("Ginger Spice"); and Victoria Beckham ("Posh Spice").
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Spitboy
Spitboy was an American anarcho-punk band founded in the San Francisco Bay area in 1990.
Stage diving
Stage diving is the act of leaping from a concert stage onto the crowd below, which occasionally causes serious injuries.
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Stalking
Stalking is unwanted and/or repeated surveillance or contact by an individual or group toward another person.
Steve Fisk
Steve Fisk is an American, Washington-based audio engineer, record producer and musician.
Subculture
A subculture is a group of people within a cultural society that differentiates itself from the conservative and standard values to which it belongs, often maintaining some of its founding principles.
Suture (band)
Suture was an American punk rock and indie rock trio based in Washington, D.C., affiliated with early riot grrrl.
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Tamar-kali
Tamar-kali (born Tamara Colletta Brown) is a critically acclaimed American rock singer-songwriter and composer based in Brooklyn, New York.
Tammy Rae Carland
Tammy Rae Carland (born January 27, 1965), is a photographer, video artist, zine editor, current provost at California College of the Arts (CCA), and former co-owner of the independent lesbian music label Mr.
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Tank Girl
Tank Girl is a British comic book character created by Alan Martin and Jamie Hewlett, and first appeared in print in 1988 in the British comics magazine Deadline, and then in the solo comic book series Tank Girl.
Target audience
The target audience is the intended audience or readership of a publication, advertisement, or other message catered specifically to the previously intended audience.
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Team Dresch
Team Dresch is an American punk rock band originally formed in 1993 in Olympia, Washington.
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Ted Leo
Theodore Francis Leo is an American singer and musician.
Teddy Boys
The Teddy Boys or Teds were a mainly British youth subculture of the early 1950s to mid-1960s who were interested in rock and roll and R&B music, wearing clothes partly inspired by the styles worn by dandies in the Edwardian period, which Savile Row tailors had attempted to re-introduce in Britain after the Second World War. Riot grrrl and Teddy Boys are musical subcultures.
Teen magazine
Teen magazines are magazines aimed at teenage readers.
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The A.V. Club
The A.V. Club is an online newspaper and entertainment website featuring reviews, interviews, and other articles that examine films, music, television, books, games, and other elements of pop-culture media.
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The Atlantic
The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher.
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The Breeders
The Breeders are an American alternative rock band based in Dayton, Ohio, consisting of members Kim Deal (rhythm guitar, lead vocals), her twin sister Kelley Deal (lead guitar, vocals), Josephine Wiggs (bass guitar, vocals) and Jim Macpherson (drums).
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The Butchies
The Butchies were an all-female punk rock band from Durham, North Carolina, that existed from 1998 to 2005.
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The Donnas
The Donnas were an American rock band formed in Palo Alto, California, in 1993.
The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic
The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic is a 2015 essay collection by music critic Jessica Hopper.
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The Frumpies
The Frumpies were an American lo-fi punk rock band formed in 1992 in Olympia, Washington.
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The Gits
The Gits were an American punk rock band formed in Yellow Springs, Ohio, in 1986.
The Go Team
The Go Team was a 1980s band from Olympia, Washington, consisting of Tobi Vail and Calvin Johnson of Beat Happening.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The Harvard Crimson
The Harvard Crimson is the student newspaper of Harvard University and was founded in 1873.
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The Julie Ruin
The Julie Ruin is an American band formed in 2010 in New York City.
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The Kitchen (art institution)
The Kitchen is a non-profit, multi-disciplinary avant-garde performance and experimental art institution located at 512 West 19th Street, between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.
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The Locust
The Locust was an American hardcore punk band from San Diego, California, known for their mix of grindcore aggression and new wave experimentation.
The Mummies
The Mummies are an American garage punk band formed in San Bruno, California, in 1988.
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The Nation of Ulysses
The Nation of Ulysses was an American punk rock band from Washington, D.C., formed in spring 1988 with four members.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Pastels
The Pastels are an indie rock group from Glasgow formed in 1981.
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The Peel Session (Bratmobile EP)
Bratmobile had a BBC live broadcast with John Peel on July 1993 and was issued the following year as The Peel Session CD EP.
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The Punk Singer
The Punk Singer is a 2013 documentary film about feminist singer Kathleen Hanna who fronted the bands Bikini Kill and Le Tigre, and who was a central figure in the riot grrrl movement.
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The Quietus
The Quietus is a British online music and pop culture magazine founded by John Doran and Luke Turner.
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The Raincoats
The Raincoats are a British experimental post-punk band.
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The Real Janelle
The Real Janelle is an EP by Bratmobile, released in 1994.
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The Seattle Times
The Seattle Times is an American daily newspaper based in Seattle, Washington.
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The Slits
The Slits were a punk rock band based in London, formed there in 1976 by members of the groups the Flowers of Romance and the Castrators.
The Spinanes
The Spinanes were an American indie rock band, primarily active during the 1990s.
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The Third Sex (band)
The Third Sex was an American queercore band formed in 1993 in Portland, Oregon.
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The Village Voice
The Village Voice is an American news and culture publication based in Greenwich Village, New York City, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly.
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.
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The Word (TV series)
The Word was a 1990s Channel 4 television programme in the United Kingdom.
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Thee Headcoats
Thee Headcoats is a band formed in Chatham, Kent, England in 1989, that was well known for its garage rock sound, explicitly sticking to this style on almost all of their albums.
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Third-wave feminism
Third-wave feminism is a feminist movement that began in the early 1990s, prominent in the decades prior to the fourth wave.
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Tobi Vail
Tobi Celeste Vail (born July 20, 1969) is an American independent musician, music critic and feminist activist from Olympia, Washington.
Tribe 8
Tribe 8 was a lesbian punk rock band from San Francisco, considered one of the first queercore groups.
Tsunami (Virginia band)
Tsunami is an American indie rock band from Arlington, Virginia, formed by housemates Jenny Toomey and Kristin Thomson in late 1990 to play at New Year's party.
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Underground music
Underground music is music with practices perceived as outside, or somehow opposed to, mainstream popular music culture. Riot grrrl and Underground music are cassette culture 1970s–1990s.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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University of Oregon
The University of Oregon (UO, U of O or Oregon) is a public research university in Eugene, Oregon.
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Unwound
Unwound is an American post-hardcore band.
USA Today
USA Today (often stylized in all caps) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company.
Veruca Salt
Veruca Salt is an American alternative rock band founded in Chicago in 1992 by vocalist-guitarists Nina Gordon and Louise Post, drummer Jim Shapiro, and bassist Steve Lack.
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Vice (magazine)
Vice (stylized in all caps) is a Canadian-American magazine focused on lifestyle, arts, culture, and news/politics.
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Videography
Videography involves capturing moving images on electronic media (such as: videotape, direct to disk recording, or solid state storage), and can include streaming media.
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Viva Knievel (band)
Viva Knievel was a short-lived punk rock and pre-riot grrrl band in Olympia, Washington, that existed around 1989–1990.
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Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who is the president of Russia.
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WAMU
WAMU (88.5 FM) is a public news–talk station that services the greater Washington, DC metropolitan area.
Washington (state)
Washington, officially the State of Washington, is the westernmost state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.
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Washington City Paper
The Washington City Paper is a U.S. alternative weekly newspaper serving the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area since 1981.
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Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.
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Wiiija
Wiiija was a British independent record label founded in 1988 by staff from the Rough Trade Shop in Notting Hill, London.
Women in music
Women in music perform a variety of roles and make a wide range of contributions.
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Women's empowerment
Women's empowerment (or female empowerment) may be defined in several ways, including accepting women's viewpoints, making an effort to seek them and raising the status of women through education, awareness, literacy, and training.
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Womyn-born womyn
Womyn-born womyn (WBW) is a term developed during second-wave feminism to designate women who were assigned female at birth, were raised as girls, and identify as women (or womyn, a deliberately alternative spelling that challenges the centering of male as norm). Riot grrrl and womyn-born womyn are women-related neologisms.
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X-Ray Spex
X-Ray Spex was an English punk rock band formed in 1976 in London.
Xerox
Xerox Holdings Corporation is an American corporation that sells print and digital document products and services in more than 160 countries.
Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah
Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah is the Bikini Kill side of a split album released in 1993 on Kill Rock Stars.
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Yoyo A Go Go
Yoyo A Go Go, usually abbreviated to Yoyo and often typeset in various ways, was an independent music festival in Olympia, Washington, first held in 1994 and followed by successor festivals in 1997, 1999, and 2001. Riot grrrl and Yoyo A Go Go are DIY culture.
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Zine
A zine (short for magazine or fanzine) is a small-circulation self-published work of original or appropriated texts and images, usually reproduced via a copy machine. Riot grrrl and zine are DIY culture and zines.
7 Year Bitch
7 Year Bitch was an American punk rock band from Seattle, Washington.
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See also
Generation X
- Brentley Frazer
- Frat Pack
- Generation X
- Grunge
- Grunge lit
- OK Soda
- Rave
- Riot grrrl
- Scoundrel Days: A Memoir
- Slacker rock
- Why We Can't Sleep
Hardcore punk genres
- Bandana thrash
- Beatdown hardcore
- Bent edge
- Christian hardcore
- Crossover thrash
- D-beat
- Digital hardcore
- Emo
- Foxcore
- Goregrind
- Grindcore
- Heavy hardcore
- Horror punk
- Krishnacore
- Mathcore
- Melodic hardcore
- Melodic metalcore
- Metalcore
- Nazi punk
- New York hardcore
- Nintendocore
- Pornogrind
- Positive hardcore
- Post-hardcore
- Powerviolence
- Progressive metalcore
- Queercore
- Rapcore
- Riot grrrl
- Screamo
- Shaman punk
- Skate punk
- Sludge metal
- Straight edge
- Taqwacore
- Thrashcore
- Washington, D.C., hardcore
- Youth crew
Political music genres
- Anarcho-punk
- Basque Radical Rock
- Chimurenga music
- Hindutva pop
- Irish rebel song
- Neo-Nazi music
- Nueva canción
- Phleng phuea chiwit
- Political hip hop
- Political music in China
- Riot grrrl
- Rock identitaire français
- Santé engagé
- Women's music
Queercore
- Alix Olson
- Anonymous Boy
- Bruce LaBruce
- DUMBA
- Dunst (performance group)
- Fanorama
- Homocore (zine)
- J.D.s
- Jerome Caja
- Queercore
- Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution
- Queeruption
- Riot grrrl
- Scott Treleaven
- Tom Jennings
- Tuff Enuff Records
Women in music
- A Woman's Heart (compilation album)
- All-female band
- Athena Festival
- Calling All Kings & Queens
- Catarina Guarneri
- Classic female blues
- Every Mother Counts (album)
- International Alliance for Women in Music
- Iranian women and Persian music
- Kapralova Society Journal
- Lilith Fair
- List of best-selling albums by women
- List of feminist anthems
- List of highest-grossing concert tours by women
- List of women composers by birth date
- List of women composers by name
- List of women music publishers before 1900
- Lists of women in music
- Marie Laeng-Stucki
- Naon no Yaon
- New Women's Music Sampler
- New York Women Composers, Inc.
- Paid My Dues: Journal of Women and Music
- Radical Act
- Riot grrrl
- Seven Great Singing Stars
- She Rocks, Vol. 1
- Sorel Organization
- SoundGirls
- Sweet Lillies
- Tomato-gate
- Wassoulou music
- Women Songwriters Hall of Fame
- Women Who Rock: Making Scenes, Building Communities Oral History Archive
- Women in Latin music
- Women in Music (periodical)
- Women in classical music
- Women in jazz
- Women in music
- Women in music education
- Women in musicology
- Women in punk
- Women in rock
- Women musicians
- Women of Rock Oral History Project
- Women's Audio Mission
- Women's music
- Cotton ceiling
- Dumb Dora
- Glass Ceiling Index
- Glass ceiling
- Glass cliff
- Reki-jo
- Riot grrrl
- TERF (acronym)
- Tradwife
- Valleyspeak
- Women-only space
- Womxn
- Womyn
- Womyn-born womyn
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riot_grrrl
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