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Riot Grrrls and their Culture.
- Describe what you found informative and of particular interest in the article.
In the article, what I found informative and of particular interest is the fact that Riot Grrrls created space for themselves by holding meetings and conventions. They also adopted self-empowerment by opting for a cheaper way of production and distribution of their zines. They rejected empowerment from formal entities that were after profiting from the Grrrl’s efforts. Having emerged as a female youth group, riot grrrls started as a punk-like band, which championed gender equality by fighting oppressions. Even if the group was famous, their identity was marginalized as female adolescents held them back from sharing their story even to researchers. For such reasons of oppression in their society, it stirred them to spread messages of freedom from cultural oppression faced by girls. They produced music, zines, and fashion to reach a wide audience on girl empowerment against oppression. In their art, they spoke up and demonstrated against rape and other forms of sexual abuse that society normalized on female youths.
- Describe how this informs or inspires your art practice and zine production.
The Grrrls’ culture serves as an inspiration for my art practice and zine production in that it is less expensive to use my channels of production and dissemination of zines rather than using intermediaries. Third persons such as corporates are chiefly after profits, hence, they may limit the scope of my art’s message, rendering it ineffective. From the Grrrls’ artistic activities, it proved more beneficial to combine multiple channels of material distribution. In my practice of art and zine production, I’m informed that since zines may not reach a broad audience due to its limitations to supportive individuals. Therefore, it is more beneficial to combine it with another form of art like music, which quickly reaches a wide audience courtesy of concerts and records sales.