Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook According to Google, a riot grrrl (noun) is “a member of a movement of young feminists associated ...

In Netflix’s new coming-of-age film Moxie, directed by and co-starring Amy Poehler, Poehler plays Lisa, the Generation X mother of Vivian, a shy 16-year-old who anonymously launches an underground ...

Last spring, my last Riot Grrrl fantasy unceremoniously came and went. Third-wave feminist trailblazers Bikini Kill reunited to play a few shows in Los Angeles, New York and London—their first time ...

Riot grrrl left a legacy and … it’s complicated. A lot of the bands that were inspired by the movement don’t want to be directly associated with it any longer. We’ll dig into that and hear from bands ...

As incels around the country mockingly chant “Your body, my choice” from their moms’ basements, suddenly the music of riot grrrl feels urgent yet again. The movement — a loose collective of bands that ...

BIPOC and queer fans and musicians didn’t always feel welcomed by riot grrrl. But some managed to claim space in the movement anyway. We dig into what it was like for people who were “aerating the ...

Before Bikini Kill cemented its name as a feminist punk legend, the band was integral to catalyzing the underground punk movement in the Pacific Northwest. Founded in 1990 in Olympia, Washington, the ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. If there is one constituency that the Kamala Harris campaign had a lock on, it was musicians—at least, the good ...

Here are five records that helped define the '90s Riot Grrrl movement. In the early 1990s, a new kind of punk was brewing; it was raw, political, loud, and unapologetically feminist. The Riot Grrrl ...

I was going to be one of them (an author's note) -- Prologue : Mass movement -- I. 1989-1992 : Double dare ya : the birth of Bikini Kill -- Come out and play with me : Bratmobile begins -- Revolution ...

In one of her self-published zines, Tobi Vail -- a central figure in the '90s Riot Grrrl movement -- wrote: "I feel completely left out of the realm of everything that is so important to me. And I ...