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Riot Grrrl And Girl Zines: Intersectional Feminist Art In Action, Paige Szmodis
Riot Grrrl And Girl Zines: Intersectional Feminist Art In Action, Paige Szmodis
Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies Honors Papers
This project examines the Riot Grrrl punk feminist movement of the 1990s and its production of girl zines as artistic, cultural, and political artifacts. Zines, or self-produced and self-published magazines, allowed young women access to DIY (do-it-yourself) mediums for self-representation. As Riot Grrrl’s third-wave feminist consciousness and cultural production tactics spread to more girls throughout the 90s, zines became a primary method of communication and community-building for girls in the movement and on the outskirts of the scene. From girl zines in the Barnard Zine Library, I gathered data to map over 600 zines from the 1990s in the United …