None of us come out of the womb feminist. While I am unquestionably a feminist now, there were times during my youth when I resisted the title, buying into the persistent stereotype of feminists as ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. If there is one constituency that the Kamala Harris campaign had a lock on, it was musicians—at least, the good ...

Here are five records that helped define the '90s Riot Grrrl movement. In the early 1990s, a new kind of punk was brewing; it was raw, political, loud, and unapologetically feminist. The Riot Grrrl ...

As incels around the country mockingly chant “Your body, my choice” from their moms’ basements, suddenly the music of riot grrrl feels urgent yet again. The movement — a loose collective of bands that ...

By placing menopause at the centre of a punk-inflected drama, Wainwright opens a new televisual space for midlife women.

The riot grrrl boom of the early 1990s was a game-changer for women in punk that inspired a generation of young feminists to pick up guitars and find like-minded activists to take a stand against ...

We interrupt your doomscrolling to bring you breaking news: Bikini Kill is back! The seminal Riot Grrrl three-piece of vocalist/bassist Kathleen Hanna, drummer Tobi Vail and guitarist/bassist Kathi ...

A recent resurgence of punk-powered feminism — or is that girl-powered punk? — raises the question: What was, or is, riot grrrl? A movement, a genre, an era, a scene? E Evelyn McDonnell and Elisabeth ...

Whereas Steve Albini is revered by most in the music industry, Kathleen Hanna had an experience with him that left a foul ...

Kathleen Hanna has never been one to mince words, so why would she start now? The punk-rock trailblazer’s memoir, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk, arrives on Tuesday and finds Hanna writing ...

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New BBC drama Riot Women sees five women find release from personal problems, crumbling marriages and ailing relatives by ...