the museum · Olympia riot grrrl
1991
Bikini Kill zine #2 · Olympia, Washington
Became cult
Draft. The ad text below is a paraphrase from documented sources. A curator will replace it with the verbatim wording once we've checked an archive scan. The outcome and citation are otherwise accurate.
classified · as printed
Revolution Girl-Style Now. Girl revolutionaries need to take action. Bands wanted. Zines wanted. We need each other.
What happened next
The call was less recruitment than ignition. Within two years dozens of riot grrrl bands had formed — Bratmobile, Heavens to Betsy, Excuse 17, Cypher in the Snow, Free to Fight. Kathleen Hanna had not yet invented riot grrrl, but the zine was its starting gun.
Source
Bikini Kill zine #2, 1991. The 'Revolution Girl-Style Now' manifesto-call appeared inside and was widely reprinted; per Sara Marcus's 'Girls to the Front' (2010).
Further
cite this ad
“Revolution Girl-Style Now. Girl revolutionaries need to take action. Bands wanted. Zines wanted. We need each other.” — Bikini Kill zine #2, 1991. Musolist museum, /museum/olympia-riot-grrrl/bikini-kill-revolution-1991.