riot grrrlz

English

Noun

riot grrrlz

1. plural of riot grrrl
   • 1993 April/May, “Meeting of Bad Attitudes with KATHLEEN HANNA - riot girl!”, in Bad Attitude, number 3, page 7, column 1:

     Kathleen Hanna is in a band called Bikini Kill which has had to deal with all these jealous boy crappings. She told Bad Attitude what she knew of the Riot Girl thing in the States. She wanted to make clear however, that she does not represent the ‘law’ on riot grrrlz (or even Bikini Kill’s other band members). There is none.

   • 1996, Martha Cornog, Timothy Perper, “Other Sexuality Materials: Vertical File Holdings, Periodicals, Literature, and Audiovisuals”, in For Sex Education, See Librarian: A Guide to Issues and Resources, Westport, Conn., London: Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 113:

     Widespread de facto censorship of (quite legal) modern sex periodicals probably ensures that many librarians have never seen—and might not guess at!—their extraordinary diversity of opinion and focus. Some are reviewed in Factsheet 5 and range from “riot grrrlz” through punkzine sex through Gothic through body piercing, S&M, queerzines, and so on.

   • 1999, Trina Robbins, From Girls to Grrrlz: A History of ♀ Comics from Teens to Zines, San Francisco, Calif.: Chronicle Books, →ISBN, back cover:

     WHAT DO pinups, girl reporters, dumb blonds, wimmin’s libbers, and riot grrrlz have in common?

   • 2003, Jane Greer, “Introduction”, in Girls and Literacy in America: Historical Perspectives to the Present, Santa Barbara, Calif., Denver, Colo., Oxford, Oxon: ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page xxii:

     Outside the classroom, third-wave feminists, riot grrrlz, and other activists encourage young women to push against barriers and to use their skills as readers and writers to pursue personal, social, and political goals.