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2021

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A Resurrected Revolution: Riot Grrrl Remembered, Revived, And Redefined, Rachael A. Nuckles May 2021

A Resurrected Revolution: Riot Grrrl Remembered, Revived, And Redefined, Rachael A. Nuckles

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How has the Riot Grrrl movement of the 1990s been remembered and redefined? Riot Grrrl is typically remembered as an organized movement based on universal girl love which made the personal political, when in reality it had multiple leaders, many manifestos, and several identities beyond just the college educated white women commonly associated with the creation of its girl power agenda. Memory formation is a process. This dominant narrative that emerged about Riot Grrrl was constructed overtime by a number of participants, but also contradicts the lived experiences of many grrrls. To make sense of this tension, this thesis relies …