BECAUSE us girls crave records and books and fanzines that speak to US
that WE feel included in and can understand in our own ways.
BECAUSE we wanna make it easier for girls to see/hear each other's work
so that we can share strategies and criticize-applaud each other.
BECAUSE we must take over the means of production in order to create our
own moanings.
BECAUSE viewing our work as being connected to our
girlfriends-politics-real lives is essential if we are gonna figure out how we
are doing impacts, reflects, perpetuates, or DISRUPTS the status quo.
BECAUSE we recognize fantasies of Instant Macho Gun Revolution as
impractical lies meant to keep us simply dreaming instead of becoming our
dreams AND THUS seek to create revolution in our own lives every single day by
envisioning and creating alternatives to the bullshit christian capitalist way
of doing things.
BECAUSE we want and need to encourage and be encouraged in the face of
all our own insecurities, in the face of beergutboyrock that tells us we can't
play our instruments, in the face of "authorities" who say our
bands/zines/etc are the worst in the US and
BECAUSE we don't wanna assimilate to someone else's (boy) standards of
what is or isn't.
BECAUSE we are unwilling to falter under claims that we are reactionary
"reverse sexists" AND NOT THE TRUEPUNKROCKSOULCRUSADERS THAT WE KNOW
we really are.
BECAUSE we know that life is much more than physical survival and are
patently aware that the punk rock "you can do anything" idea is
crucial to the coming angry grrrl rock revolution which seeks to save the
psychic and cultural lives of girls and women everywhere, according to their
own terms, not ours.
BECAUSE we are interested in creating non-heirarchical ways of being AND
making music, friends, and scenes based on communication + understanding,
instead of competition + good/bad categorizations.
BECAUSE doing/reading/seeing/hearing cool things that validate and
challenge us can help us gain the strength and sense of community that we need
in order to figure out how bullshit like racism, able-bodieism, ageism,
speciesism, classism, thinism, sexism, anti-semitism and heterosexism figures
in our own lives.
BECAUSE we see fostering and supporting girl scenes and girl artists of
all kinds as integral to this process.
BECAUSE we hate capitalism in all its forms and see our main goal as
sharing information and staying alive, instead of making profits of being cool
according to traditional standards.
BECAUSE we are angry at a society that tells us Girl = Dumb, Girl = Bad,
Girl = Weak.
BECAUSE we are unwilling to let our real and valid anger be diffused
and/or turned against us via the internalization of sexism as witnessed in
girl/girl jealousism and self defeating girltype behaviors.
BECAUSE I believe with my wholeheartmindbody that girls constitute a
revolutionary soul force that can, and will change the world for real.
Source from - " The riot grrrl manifesto was published 1991 in the
BIKINI KILL ZINE 2" http://onewarart.org/riot_grrrl_manifesto.htm
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