Call for Submissions! Introducing Riot Wise…a Zine-to-be with the kind of gems from riotgrrrl’s all grown up…Who have well-fought Wild (not socially programmed) Wisdom! Riot Wise wants work from Ladies & Gents—I’m looking for YOUR personal stories!!! of YOU! About the complexities of finding, or honoring your self, taking you seriously, that struggle, confusion, frustration,…
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HEART SPEAK: Saturday Holla-Rant (sucky homework, feminism, dope bodyboarders, instagram)
^ This song ^ which I discovered on Instagram by following a like to a like and then discovering the feed of one of the younger dudes that hangs out and bodyboards at the beach I go to–this one in fact, where I took Eddie and Megan to eat burritos on their way out of…
Rape Culture at the University of Ottawa
Originally posted on The Belle Jar:
On February 10th, Anne Marie Roy, president of the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa, was sent screenshots of a chat that had taken place earlier in the month between two student federation board members and several other students who are either elected to or participate in various…
Why I Stopped Identifying With White Feminism
Originally posted on ofcourseitsaboutyou:
(Inspired by @SamAmbreen’s post here: We will not let white feminism divide and conquer us) Today I’ve been talking with @HadleyFreeman about a series of posts she made to @JudeinLondon earlier in the day. Short story: Freeman wrote a problematic article, Jude discussed it on Twitter without linking to Freeman, someone…
#DangerousBlackKids A Love Letter From Hood Feminists to Our Children
#DangerousBlackKids A Love Letter From Hood Feminists to Our Children.
House of Cards: Why not calling myself a Feminist often seems like the most pro-femi thing I can do.
You’ve gotta be fucking kidding me–what I’m thinking. What I’m doing? Circling my little room. Rump directing and redirecting like a yellow jacket about to take sweet you know? I was getting ready to write. Circling the whole of my apartment, a single little room because Woolf was right, it’s a tenant of feminism with which I…
Vintage Kadada. Rock n Roll Tuesdays. Bratmobile.
So like, I had made this blog one time, like, to get over this guy it was my reminder to me that i thought for myself and loved music long before he had come along & made it all weepy for me & so like, last night i was feeling really self-indulgent & like oh…
This is so ucking famazing
Bc i still get stars in my eyes when i hear Erin Smith’s name bc my first Riot Grrrl zine showed up w a hand penned note from her bc i was 14 & who knows what woulda happened if she hadn’t bc i’m 36 & still find its the rg diy ways that i…
So, thought I’d share
THIS which is from a women’s rights alliance rally in college to get brighter street lights installed circa 2001, with a Snap edit added today, made for Siobhan & E.V.E.
