After that I wasn’t much into folk music anymore! Version of the First Two Records was one of those. It was something I’d do once a month to try to discover new stuff. Used to do this thing where I’d go into a record store and buy cds solely on the cover art. They encouraged me to broaden my music horizons. I was really into folk music at the time but my friends were all into punk and if I wanted to hang with them I had to listen to all these guy bands, Dead Kennedys and the like, although they were really into PJ Harvey as well. I was peripherally aware of Bikini Kill as a teenager but didn’t really get into them until my last year of high school, ’99/’00. Redeeming the download somehow brought me here. Just bought the pink vinyl Newbury Comics exclusive of Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah. Thx 4 the support and inspiration i’ll try to keep it going, much luv i feel like i have to prove every aspect of my being to them in order for them to be valid and sometimes it feels like they interprete my opinions as a personal attack, so for me, riot grrrl is like this awesome movement and set of ideals that’s just like “we hear u, u have a right to be mad and we’ll be mad along side you” growing up as a grrrl is just something u have 2 experience in order to understand and i don’t blame the guys in my life for not understanding my experiences but it is tiring. listening to the music makes me feel a sense of validation that i was kind of missing before, i know i’m not suppose to need validation but no matter how much of a cliche it is, being a teenager, especially a teenage grrrl is really hard, riot grrrl and grrrls like kathleen hanna inspired me to be me and for the first time i felt this sense of constructive anger, and anger that fueled me instead of setting me back. I found bikini kill and riot grrrl this summer, it played a big role in me finding myself and i’m still trying.
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