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TY - JOUR
T1 - Killing ourselves is not subversive
T2 - Riot Grrrl from zine to screen and the commodification of female transgression
AU - Spiers, Emily
N1 - This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Women:A Cultural Review on 16/07/2015, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/09574042.2015.1035021
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - This article draws on material from the Riot Grrrl Collection at New York University's Fayles Library to examine the culture of ‘zine’ production in riot grrrl communities in the United States during the 1990s. After investigating the relationship between the political issues and aesthetic strategies explored by riot grrrl literary producers, the author analyses the points of tension arising within the movement, which become illuminated by zines’ revelatory confessional modes, or what Mimi Thi Nguyen has called riot grrrl's ‘aesthetics of access’. The author subsequently enquires after the implications for riot grrrl politics of understanding experiences of oppression and transgressive behaviour as cultural commodities. Finally, the author goes on to trace the commodification of the transgressive feminist gesture in mainstream popular culture and contemporary online feminist activism in the United States.
AB - This article draws on material from the Riot Grrrl Collection at New York University's Fayles Library to examine the culture of ‘zine’ production in riot grrrl communities in the United States during the 1990s. After investigating the relationship between the political issues and aesthetic strategies explored by riot grrrl literary producers, the author analyses the points of tension arising within the movement, which become illuminated by zines’ revelatory confessional modes, or what Mimi Thi Nguyen has called riot grrrl's ‘aesthetics of access’. The author subsequently enquires after the implications for riot grrrl politics of understanding experiences of oppression and transgressive behaviour as cultural commodities. Finally, the author goes on to trace the commodification of the transgressive feminist gesture in mainstream popular culture and contemporary online feminist activism in the United States.
KW - Riot grrrl
KW - zines
KW - postmodernism
KW - autofiction
KW - transgression
KW - digital
KW - feminism
KW - popular culture
U2 - 10.1080/09574042.2015.1035021
DO - 10.1080/09574042.2015.1035021
M3 - Journal article
VL - 26
SP - 1
EP - 21
JO - Women: A Cultural Review
JF - Women: A Cultural Review
SN - 0957-4042
IS - 1-2
ER -