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Folded once, saddle-stitched and greased silky with the grips of hundreds of fingerprints--this tactile sensation of holding a well cared-for zine from the riot grrrl era and beyond is one aesthetic Matt Wobensmith, owner of the ultimate San Francisco-based zine shop Goteblud and curator of You Are Her: Riot Grrrl and Underground Female Zines of the 1990's. The exhibit, which collects hundreds of zines from Wobensmith's personal vault, ranges from Michelle Tea's Bitch Queen to the Heavens to Betsy-penned Channel Seven. Among other things Wobensmith relishes presenting exhibit-goers with a pristine copy of G.B. Jones, an anthology of her collected artwork published by a New York press, banned by Canada, and largely destroyed in the hands of customs agents.
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Armin reviews Girl Zines: making media during feminism by Alison Piepmeier and The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America by Michelle Tea.
...Take the riot grrrl movement, the American-led charge that reclaimed c...
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... the contradictions of popular culture, eco-grrrls are rising to redefine feminism, environmentalism .... Kimberley Fry . BEHIND THE "riot scenes" the media portrayed from Seattle, Washingt...
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... doesn't disappoint, with classic riot grrrl imagery and typewriter font, honest stories of eve...
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The September 30 article, "House-wrecking punks should be required to build homes for others," written by opinion journalist Jon Ferry in The Province newspaper (p. A4) was the most scathing. Those who attended the 2004 house party are described by Ferry as "youth," "punk-rockers," "perpetrators of pointless destruction," "anti-establishment rabble-rousers," those with "mosh-pit-hardened butts," potential "peaceniks," "house-wrecking punks" and most poignantly, "pollutants of the environment." The article characterizes "house-wrecking punks" as: lazy, for "some people get on with their lives right away, some people don't;" aimless, "...being in your twenties and not having a lot to do;" and useless to the economy (non-productive): "they might start to learn a trade that enables them to ...
... BC, on September 25, 2004, the city's riot squad was called out for a house party turned "pun... more radical punk praxis, such as Riot Grrrl, a feminist movement that draws upon and is part o...
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Forsyth reviews , a zine that revolves around themes of heartbreak, abuse, disappointment, and being like, a goddess. The zine highlights girls' sexuality, empowerment, and mediocre mainstream of the heyday.
...com, #3. Clementine Cannibal is a grrrl who knows what she wants: good music, good porn an... intellectually mediocre mainstream of the riot grrrl heyday. (An insight as to why the movement f...
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Lavery reviews Trees 4: The Hopeless Romantic! Punk-As-Fuck by Samantha Trees.
... of answering phones at a crisis line, riot grrrl jams in her anarcho-utopia house, her simult...
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Webb-Campbell features writer . Published by Cormorant Books, Whittalls debut novel Bottle Rocket Hearts, is a queer coming of age tale set in Montreal a year prior to the 1995 Quebec Referendum. But to us insiders, it's a postmodern cry for a riot girl renaissance and a portrait of radical romance gone askew. Bottle Rocket Hearts follows Eve, the novels tender protagonist, through the emotional revolution of first loves, and plummets into the underbelly of feminist politics and ideologies. While Eve discovers her own sense of identity through her haphazard relationship with Della, their provincial homelands push them to come to terms with their own.
... insiders, it's a postmodern cry for a riot grrrl renaissance and a portrait of radical romance gone...
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Greenwood reviews , a magazine exploring all-things-taboo in regards to femininity and being a woman.
... counterculture, particularly that of riot grrrl - the early-' 90s underground feminist punk ...
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Pinder reviews Tazewells Favorite Eccentric. This magazine is about pro-queer social criticism.
... so fucking beautiful or others steeped in a riot grrrl aesthetic, preaching radical self-love and p...