i miss riot grrl.
i miss huggybear and excuse 17 and the softies and kathleen hannah. before she was on mtv.
i miss baby barrettes and pink hair and rainbow cigarettes. screwdrivers in store 24 paper cups and the pit in harvard square.
i miss the conventions and the self defense workshops and the meetings and going with lisa to get a piercing because i wasn't yet 18.
i miss the meetings with chele at backbay and suzanne and rachel and jodi and all the other girls who's names have drifted out of memory...
i miss helium and sleater kinney shows at the middle east. i miss getting zines in the mail. i miss suzanne's zines. i miss homemade tshirts saying "this game isn't fun anymore" and patches with the feminist symbol with the fist inside it. i miss being that angry about something. that angry.
is anyone doing this anymore? is it just a little girl thing?
when i marched in the dyke march a couple weekends ago, a girl stopped me and said that she remembered when i used to run the riot grrl meetings in boston. it took me a minute to recall who she was, but i did. she asked me what i was doing now, because she was sure it was amazing. i'm not doing anything. i'm in school. i was embarrased. she said come to new york, come here, let's get this shit started again. we have so much power now.
why do the ladies stop once they actually get to a place where they can much more easily be heard? we've all stopped and gone our separate ways and the movement is dying and the generation is growing up and no one cares anymore.. it's not "immature" to still care about these issues man... nothing has gotten better. it shouldn't just be a little girl thing.
and you know that every time i move, i make a woman's movement.
peace.
i miss huggybear and excuse 17 and the softies and kathleen hannah. before she was on mtv.
i miss baby barrettes and pink hair and rainbow cigarettes. screwdrivers in store 24 paper cups and the pit in harvard square.
i miss the conventions and the self defense workshops and the meetings and going with lisa to get a piercing because i wasn't yet 18.
i miss the meetings with chele at backbay and suzanne and rachel and jodi and all the other girls who's names have drifted out of memory...
i miss helium and sleater kinney shows at the middle east. i miss getting zines in the mail. i miss suzanne's zines. i miss homemade tshirts saying "this game isn't fun anymore" and patches with the feminist symbol with the fist inside it. i miss being that angry about something. that angry.
is anyone doing this anymore? is it just a little girl thing?
when i marched in the dyke march a couple weekends ago, a girl stopped me and said that she remembered when i used to run the riot grrl meetings in boston. it took me a minute to recall who she was, but i did. she asked me what i was doing now, because she was sure it was amazing. i'm not doing anything. i'm in school. i was embarrased. she said come to new york, come here, let's get this shit started again. we have so much power now.
why do the ladies stop once they actually get to a place where they can much more easily be heard? we've all stopped and gone our separate ways and the movement is dying and the generation is growing up and no one cares anymore.. it's not "immature" to still care about these issues man... nothing has gotten better. it shouldn't just be a little girl thing.
and you know that every time i move, i make a woman's movement.
peace.
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near a whole foods hopefully. That's where I get my eggless hellmans. If you can find it, I can buy it and ship it too you if you're really that desperate.
We can work some kind of paypal thing out.