Girls to the Front author Sara Marcus on riot grrrl, DIY feminism, and Rockville - Amanda Hess | TBD.com

Girls to the Front author Sara Marcus on riot grrrl, DIY feminism, and Rockville - Amanda Hess | TBD.com: "SM: The riot grrrl ethos is not necessarily the idea that like, playing music is this radical political act. Plenty of female musicians today are like, ‘I’m grateful for the road that was paved for me. I just kind of want to make my music.’ What people are nostalgic for is the sense of community and support, and the way that people created local scenes to encourage one another to create things. Our culture has become so delocalized that that often gets lost. But it’s not even the music specifically, but the politics of riot grrrl that people are nostalgic for. Riot grrrl was about seeing things that were unfair and naming them as unfair. It was about drawing political angles to things that were going on in your life and that you saw going on to the world around you. As people grow up, it become s a little impolite to mention those things. But they’re still going on."