In 1989, as the story goes, a teenage Kathleen Hanna went to a workshop led by postmodernist writer Kathy Acker. There, she told Acker that she’d started performing spoken wor… See more

Bratmobile was no less angry than Bikini Kill, though their songs tended to sound more … See more

Across the Atlantic, the “boy-girl revolutionaries” of Huggy Bear led the charge in the U.K. In 1993, the co-ed quintet gave an instantly legendary performanc… See more

One part spoken word, one part playground taunt, one part blood-curdling screaming, “Thurston Hearts the Who” is the sound of riot grrrl distilled to its purest (and, at moments, … See more

Despite the hostile reception riot grrrl faced from the start, its message still found its way to the girls who needed it. One of them was Corin Tucker — who would eventually be known f… See more