- Read: Riot Grrrl manifesto.
- Read: Rachel Smith, “Revolution Girl Style, 20 Years Later,” NPR, 22 Sept 2011.
- Read: Tina Vasquez, “Revisiting the Riot: An Interview with Punk Veteran Mimi Thi Nguyen,” Bitch #59 (2013).
- Listen: Riot Grrrl playlist (embedded below)
- Lecture Notes on 90s punk. For a great point of reference, check out the Fear of a Punk Decade series of articles published by The A.V. Club in 2014.
- DUE: Critical Response #6: Click here for assignment guidelines.
For further reading & research:
- Excerpts from Sara Marcus, Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution (Harper-Collins, 2011).
- A smart, critical assessment of Riot Grrrl: Jennifer Pan, “She Came to Riot,” Jacobin, Sept 2013.
- Read this article about the new record from G.L.O.S.S. (Girls Living Outside Society’s Shit): Emma May, “New EP ‘Trans Day of Revenge’ is Pure Political Punk,” Bitch, 21 July 2016.
- Jessica Hopper, “Emo: Where the Girls Aren’t,” Punk Planet #56, 2003.
- Helen Reddington, “A Ladder Through the Glass Ceiling” and “The Social Context: Academic Writing on Subcultures, the Rock Press and ‘Women in Music’” and “Conclusion,” in Lost Women of Rock Music: Female Musicians of the Punk Era, 2nd (London: Equinox Pulishing, 2012), 14-47; 157-201.
- Lindsay Zoladz, “Not Every Girl Is a Riot Grrrl,” Pitchfork, 16 Nov 2011.
- Lindsay Zoladz, “Take Me Seriously: Why Pussy Riot Matter,” Pitchfork, 16 Aug 2012.
- Women in UK Punk (documentary)
- From the Back of the Room (documentary)
- Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer (documentary), available for rental on Vimeo.
- Girls Rock! Pittsburgh
