andie

17 - queer - they/she - creeps and bigots dni

[babie-bat]

[chelsamander]

Poly Styrene of X-Ray Spex

[theriotgrrrlproject]

Advice for 2018. Happy New Year, riot grrrls. #riotgrrrl #youarefuckingbeautiful

[theriotgrrrlproject]

Riot Grrrl repping at the 1993 gay rights march in Washington DC. Ready for a month of riot grrrl #pride 🌈🌈🌈? What are your favorite grrrl love songs?

[bunniboilerr-deactivated2025100]

what is ‘kinderwhore’ and why is it feminist?

Kinderwhore is a clothing style associated with female-fronted punk bands that started in the early 90s. It is categorised with babydoll dresses, mary janes, fishnets, peter pan collars and pinks and whites. At it’s core, Kinderwhore is about subverting expectations and the male gaze. 

The name may sound like it is sexualising children (Kinder being the German word for child and whore being a sexually promiscuous woman) but this could not be farther from the truth. The style uses symbols of youthfulness and innocence and corrupts it in a way that makes it unappealing to men with feminist punk music, rips and grime. 

The patriarchal society we live in sexualises young girls and we can see this in the beauty standards put on all women - hairless, petite, innocent, virginal. Kinderwhore see’s this and combats it by taking these symbols of what men might find sexually appealing and turning it on it’s head. Women who dress this way want to subvert the paedophiliac male gaze.  

[profeminist]

“I would much rather be the ‘obnoxious feminist girl’ than be complicit in my own dehumanization.”

- Kathleen Hanna - Bikini Kill, Le Tigre, The Julie Ruin

[checkyourhead1992]

Joan Jett performing with Kathleen Hanna & Bikini Kill, 1994.

[cherrydrivein]

[do1lparts]

Saoirse Ronan in Lady Bird (2017)

[saveyourpissinjars]

Kat Bjelland, 1990 ♡☾

[dustcakebabe]

“Babes in Toyland at the old 9:30 club in DC. Kat’s using a metal carpenters file on her guitar. The result was a gnarly wall of ear-piercing noise! It made a couple of her guitar strings break.. one of which cut her finger open, causing her to bleed like a stuck pig on stage”

[killrockstar]

bikini kill. ny, 1996

[iknowthesugarplumfairy]

Bikini Kill 1992

Photo by Pat Graham

[bunnycaresss]

old riot grrrl poster i found on the web