Riot Grrrl zine and music collection

Collection

Identifier: 8125

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COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

A collection of more than 250 Riot Grrrl-related zines along with original cassette tapes and seven-inch singles from Bikini Kill, Bratmobile, Skinned Teen, and others bands who pioneered the movement and its sound. Topics of the zines span across queer culture, punk rock, sexual politics, the gay skinhead movement, skate culture, feminism and gender roles, covering a wide geographical area from the late 1980s through the 1990s.

Dates

circa 1989-1997.

Creator

Wobensmith, Matt. (Person)

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Riot grrrl is an underground feminist punk movement that originated in the early 1990s in Washington state. It is a subcultural movement that combines feminist consciousness and punk style and politics.

Extent

2 cubic feet. (2 cubic feet.)

Additional Description

Abstract

SERIES LIST

Series I. Zines

Series II. Posters and Ephemera

Series III. Sound and Video Recordings

RELATED MATERIALS

Associated material is held in the Riot Grrrl Collection in NYU's Fales Library.

Physical Description

Printed materials, posters, ephemera.

General

Contact Information:: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:: Ben Wrubel
Date completed:: June 2018
EAD encoding:: Ben Wrubel, June 2018
Date modified:: Fredrika Loew, October 2018

NOTES

These materials are from the personal collection of Matt Wobensmith, publisher of the zine Outpunk between 1992 and 1997, and curator of multiple exhibitions on zine culture.