Riot Grrrl is not a product for the media to sell. I am opposed to mainstream media coverage, although some riot grrls may argue with me. The media has made us into a fad so that we can easily be put in the back of people’s closets with the macrame and parachute pants when we aren’t “the next big thing” anymore. Hopefully some girls/women will see through the fad image and catch the important stuff. It’s funny how some people try to write off true movements like feminism, veganism, ecology, etc., as faddish…I guess it’s scary to recognize new ideas/eras that threaten your way of life.

At around nine years old, besides writing a book and becoming a world-famous novelist and etc etc, all I wanted was to publish a magazine. I would visit all the suggested websites on my library’s list for children. These early Geocities and Angelfire sites, with their cheery graphics and midi players, were cute. I would leave notes on their guestbooks.

Several websites on my list were about grrl power and zines and the power of producing your own work. As an adult, I can see how this is radical. It wasn’t radical to me, as a child, at the time. Yes, I was a girl, and yes, I wanted to hold my words in my hands so that everyone could read what I had to say. So what?