Riot Girls Part Three: Today’s Riot Grrrls

Kathleen Hanna and Bikini Kill’s music hasn’t been forgotten, and their values are still embedded into many musicians and their work, and rightly so. The Riot Grrrl movement proved that music is fluid and has no barriers or limits of who is making it and...

Alternative Girl: Explore your identity

This is the final blog post in this special interview series, within which Megan Sormus (Northumbria University) talked to Girl Museum about Riot Grrrl and her own ideas about girlhood. Passionate about music and music scenes herself, Megan talks about the...

Chicks Rock! (but need to use the “sultry”)

Over the Labor Day holiday, teen band Kalliope Jones participated in the Battle of the Bands competition at the Three County Fair in Northampton, Massachusetts. Coming in third, they were pleased with their prize, but somewhat less so with their comment...

Sexualizing Girls without Consent

Miley Cyrus One of the biggest stories sweeping through pop culture right now involves pictures that purport to show teenage singer Miley Cyrus’s exposed labia. Gossip blogger Perez Hilton posted a picture to his website last week that was angled up...

Pin It on Pinterest