ABSTRACT
The history of the Riot Grrrl Movement is the subject of numerous publications, from popular press to academic articles and even Riot Grrrl podcasts. However, missing from these (re)visionist histories of Riot Grrrl is a discussion that links the movement to anarchism and feminism. Previous discussions contextualize Riot Grrrl in a discourse that depicts the movement as a fad or a ghost of a girlhood past. This work resists such iterations and suggests Riot Grrrl remains open and fluid through intervals of engagement, contributing to the evolution of girl activism that extends beyond the heyday of the movement in the 1990s. Using autoethnography, historiography, and textual analysis, I (re)examine early Riot Grrrl zines and situate my vantage point of being a member of the Riot Grrrl D.C. to explore these fluid intervals and exhume complicated aspects of Riot Grrrl, including race and identity and highlight discussions of anti-facism and anti-racism.
