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...
1990’s America was stale, laddish and male dominated. It was littered with double standards. In 2015, The New York Times’s Kurt Anderson reminisced on the era as, “The Best Decade Ever”. In doing so, he thanked Starbucks for the...
Not so long ago, and even to some extent today, music was and still is believed to have a gender. It’s weird, isn’t it? This unwritten rule/idea that certain styles of music can only be performed by or listened to by a certain gender. In the 1990’s,...
This is the first of two guest blogs by Megan Sormus, a PhD researcher at Northumbria University, whose research focuses on visualising femininities in contemporary women’s writing, DIY music subcultures, film and television. Writing for Girl...
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...
