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An Adaptation of

The RioT GrrrL Manifesto
Written by Kathleen Hanna
Designed by Cris Cruz

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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

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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.

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Because

we must take over the means
of production in order to create
our own moanings.

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Because

viewing our work
as being connected to our
girlfriends-politics-real lives
is essential if we are gonna
figure out how we are do-
ing impacts, reflects, per-
petuates, or DISRUPTS the
status quo

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The Racialized Sexism that Binds
Mo’Ne Davis & Serena Williams

MARCH 29, 2015 | JANET MOCK


The Little League World Series star is only 13 and has already graced the cover of
Sports Illustrated, wrote an autobiography, designed her own sneaker line for a good
cause, and will be the subject of a Disney Channel biopic.

This week, while promoting her book, Davis sat down with Lawrence O’Donnell on
the Last Word on msnbc to discuss the pressure of being the first African American girl
to play in the Little League World Series.

Of course, a little girl standing at a mound shouldn’t have to worry about who’s
watching her, she shouldn’t have to worry about anything other than throwing a solid
pitch. But being carefree isn’t a luxury afforded to girls like Mo’Ne Davis, as evi-
denced by a vile tweet sent by Joey Casselberry –a Bloomsbury University baseball
player – who called the girl wonder a “slut.”Casselberry tweeted: “Disney is making
a movie about Mo’ne Davis? WHAT A JOKE. That slut got rocked by Nevada.”

The University swiftly kicked Casselberry off the team for his disparaging comment.
Davis didn’t only forgive the baseball player but she also wrote an email to the univer-
sity to reinstate the man who called her a slut. She told ESPN’s SportsCenter: “Every-
one makes mistakes and everyone deserves a second chance. I know right now he’s
really hurt and I know how hard he worked to get where he is. I mean, I was pretty

B e c a u s ehurt on my part but I know he’s hurting even more.”
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Awards. She was only 9 years old. We all remember when Serena Williams, at the
tender age of 19, faced boos and jeers from a hostile, racist audience at the Indian
Wells tournament in 2001.

Williams wrote in TIME magazine of her experience 14 years ago: “The under¬cur-
rent of racism was painful, confusing and unfair. In a game I loved with all my heart,
at one of my most cherished tournaments, I suddenly felt unwelcome, alone and
afraid…When I was booed at Indian Wells—by what seemed like the whole world—
my voice of doubt became real. I didn’t understand what was going on in that mo-
ment. But worse, I had no desire to even win.”

Those boos nearly squashed Williams. And that’s the intent of such ridicule: It’s
designed to check and halt women from winning. It’s designed to let them and all us
who look on adoringly, who see our best possible selves in their glory, know that we
do not belong – no matter how accomplished we are.

But Williams didn’t let the boos halt her. She would go on to become the number one
ranked women’s tennis player in the world. As she wrote in TIME, “I have nothing to
prove.”

And this month, despite having nothing to prove, Williams returned to that same
court, the same courts that adamantly told her she did not belong. Williams’ return to
Indian Wells after a 13-year boycott is a winning model of possibility, telling Mo’Ne
and every girl yearning to shine, that they are deserving of voice, visibility and all the
space their bodies and brilliance can occupy.

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Because JET FUEL CAN’T MELT
STEEL BEAMS
we want and need to encourage
and be encouraged in the face of all CAMP COPE
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

“I’m not gonna climb They say the only thing that stops
A ladder for the rest of my life” A bad man with a gun
You said that and stood back Is a good man with a gun
And you walked away before The lies they sell to you
they could react The only thing that stops
Hearing cat calls from police cars A bad man with a gun
And they say Is a good man with a gun
“What you gonna do about it The lies they use to control you
dressed the way you are?”
Yeah, it’s a very common lie
They say you’re asking for it
When you’re walking home
alone at night

They say the only thing that stops It’s the trophy wives raising trophy wives
A bad man with a gun Raising children on TV
Is a good man with a gun Scared of people like you and me
The lies they scare in you Just don’t ask questions,
The only thing that stops you’ll sleep peacefully
A bad man with a gun We will not go out in silence
Is a good man with a gun And we will not go quietly
The lies they use to control you Nah, jet fuel can’t melt steel beams
I’ve watched enough
Conspiracy documentaries, yeah

So, you turned and walked away They say the only thing that stops
Forgot everything they taught A bad man with a gun
you ’til that day Is a good man with a gun
And started arguing eloquently The lies they use to control you
As to whether jet fuel could The only thing that stops
melt steel beams A bad man with a gun
Hearing cat calls from a Is a good man with a gun
construction yard The lies they use to control you
They’ll say, “Take it as a compliment, Use to control you
they’re only being nice”
Yeah, it’s a far too common lie
And you’ll carry keys
between your knuckles
When you walk alone at night
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FOR LAURA J
PUNK WAS

Because

we don't wanna assimilate to
someone else's (boy)
standards of what is or isn't.

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JANE GRACE,
S A FORM OFAPRIL4,2017| NPR

ARMORGrowing up, punk rocker Laura Jane Grace always felt conflicted about gender. She tells Fresh

Air's Terry Gross that she felt like two "twin souls" were warring inside of her, fighting for
control. "I thought that I was quite possibly schizophrenic," she says.

It wasn't until Grace was 19 that she heard the term "transgender" and had a context for what
she was feeling. In 2012, at the age of 31, she transitioned from male to female.

Grace, who is the founder of the band Against Me!, writes about the transition and how it
affected her wife and daughter, as well as her stage persona, in the new memoir Tranny.
Overall, she says, the transition put her "more in touch" with herself: "It just, like, overall,
all-around, made me a more real, more there, present and comfortable-with-myself person. It
broke down a wall."

On transitioning to female and wanting to avoid buying into stereotypes of women: You
decide you're going to transition and then all of a sudden you're like — and now I'm still a
public figure and now I face the fear of, Do I look fat in this dress? I have to do a photo shoot
and I'm worried about the way I look, and I feel like all those pressures sometimes, from a
transition standpoint, are so unrealistic to navigate in a public eye. It's tough.

On the appeal of punk clothes and style: It was a form of expression, in a way, that I couldn't
express myself how I wanted to otherwise. And it also served as a form of armor, because
when you're wearing a big leather jacket with spikes on it and you're charging out your
hair with Knox gelatin, I mean, you're like, arming yourself. I got beat up a lot, so that was
something to kind of hold onto.

At first, especially living where I was living, like, the nihilism of it all attracted me — the
idea of live fast, die young — because I didn't think I was going to make it out of South
Florida, especially [because] I got arrested and was already a felon by the time I was like
14, 15 years old, so I really thought I was going to get stuck there. So the idea of dying was
appealing.

On how the gender dysphoria she felt led to destructive behaviors: Being stuck in that
... binge-and-purge cycle, where engaging in any kind of behavior that gave in to your
dysphoria was then immediately met afterwards with intense feelings of shame and self-hate
— I was a cutter. I actively sought out self-destructive things like deciding, like, I am going to
smoke cigarettes. This tastes terrible, it just made me throw up, but I'm going to keep going
until I like these cigarettes. Thinking in my head, How can I get a hold of drugs? How can I
find cocaine? ...

And that's like [at] 13 years old, because I didn't know ... I had no resources. I had no one
to turn to, to talk about it. I used to go to a church group — the church paid for me to go to
therapy. The church kicked me out of church eventually, because they thought I was a lost
cause and there were just no words for it. Again, I didn't hear the term "transgender" until I
was probably, like, 19 years old. Who wants to grow up to be something that you feel like is
going to cost you a normal life?

On her then-3-year-old daughter saying she wanted Grace to “be daddy again”: That overall
feeling and that existential crisis crushed me. I want to be her dad, I am her dad, that's my
kid, no one else, especially separating from her mother, [I had] the feeling of I'll be damned if
someone else is coming in here and all of the sudden going to be "dad" to my kid.

Maybe that's a dumb, aggressive attitude to have about things, but as a parent I refuse to
apologize for any way I feel over the protection of my kid. It was something that I wrestled
with and eventually came to the conclusion that I am her dad, no matter what. And she says
female pronouns, "she" and "her," and she understands that I'm transgender and I am still
her dad and she says "dad." People will often, in front of the two of us, refer to me as her
mommy, and we've never said that. People have a hard time accepting that sometimes things
are different.

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Because

we are unwilling to falter under
claims that we are reactionary
"reverse sexists" AND NOT THE
TRUEPUNKROCKSOULCRUSADERS
THAT WE KNOW we really are.

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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, accord-
ing to their own terms, not ours.

Because

we are interested in creat-
ing non-heirarchical ways
of being AND making
music, friends, and scenes
based on communication +
understanding, instead of
competition + good/bad
categorizations.

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Because

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 heterosex-
ism figures in our own lives.

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Because

we see fostering and supporting
girl scenes and girl artists of all
kinds as integral to this process.

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WHY DO

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 tradi-
tional standards.

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In an apparent rejection of the basic principles of the U.S. economy, a new poll shows that
most young people do not support capitalism.

The Harvard University survey, which polled young adults between ages 18 and 29, found
that 51 percent of respondents do not support capitalism. Just 42 percent said they support it.

It isn't clear that the young people in the poll would prefer some alternative system, though.
Just 33 percent said they supported socialism. The survey had a margin of error of 2.4 per-
centage points.

The results of the survey are difficult to interpret, pollsters noted. Capitalism can mean different
things to different people, and the newest generation of voters is frustrated with the status quo,
broadly speaking.

All the same, that a majority of respondents in Harvard University's survey of young adults
said they do not support capitalism suggests that today's youngest voters are more focused on
the flaws of free markets.

"The word 'capitalism' doesn't mean what it used to," said Zach Lustbader, a senior at Har-
vard involved in conducting the poll, which was published Monday. For those who grew up
during the Cold War, capitalism meant freedom from the Soviet Union and other totalitarian
regimes. For those who grew up more recently, capitalism has meant a financial crisis from
which the global economy still hasn't completely recovered.

[Bernie Sanders is profoundly changing how millennials think about politics]

A subsequent survey that included people of all ages found that somewhat older Americans
also are skeptical of capitalism. Only among respondents at least 50 years old was the major-
ity in support of capitalism.

Although the results are startling, Harvard's questions accord with other recent research on
how Americans think about capitalism and socialism. In 2011, for example, the Pew Research
Center found that people ages 18 to 29 were frustrated with the free-market system.

In that survey, 46 percent had positive views of capitalism, and 47 percent had negative
views — a broader question than what Harvard's pollsters asked, which was whether the re-
spondent supported the system. With regard to socialism, by contrast, 49 percent of the young

MILLENIALSpeople in Pew's poll had positive views, and just 43 percent had negative views.
Lustbader, 22, said the darkening mood on capitalism is evident in the way politicians talk
about the economy. When Republicans — long the champions of free enterprise — use the
word "capitalism" these days, it's often to complain about "crony capitalism," he said.

"You don't hear people on the right defending their economic policies using that word any-
more," Lustbader added.

HATEIt is an open question whether young people's attitudes on socialism and capitalism show that

they are rejecting free markets as a matter of principle or whether those views are simply an
expression of broader frustrations with an economy in which household incomes have been
declining for 15 years.

On specific questions about how best to organize the economy, for example, young people's
views seem conflicted. Just 27 percent believe government should play a large role in regu-
lating the economy, the Harvard poll found, and just 30 percent think the government should
play a large role in reducing income inequality. Only 26 percent said government spending is

CAPITALISMan effective way to increase economic growth
Yet 48 percent agreed that "basic health insurance is a right for all people." And 47 percent
agreed with the statement that "Basic necessities, such as food and shelter, are a right that the
government should provide to those unable to afford them."

"Young people could be saying that there are problems with capitalism, contradictions," Frank
Newport, the editor in chief of Gallup, said when asked about the new data. "I certainly don't
know what’s going through their heads."

John Della Volpe, the polling director at Harvard, went on to personally interview a small
group of young people about their attitudes toward capitalism to try to learn more. They told
him that capitalism was unfair and left people out despite their hard work.

"They're not rejecting the concept," Della Volpe said. "The way in which capitalism is prac-
ticed today, in the minds of young people — that's what they're rejecting."

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Because

we are angry at a society
that tells us
Girl = Dumb,
Girl = Bad,
Girl = Weak.

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Because

we are unwilling to let our real and
valid anger be diffused and/or
turned against us via the internaliza-
tion of sexism as witnessed in girl/
girl jealousism and self defeating
girltype behaviors.

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Because

I believe with my
wholeheartmindbody
that girls constitute a rev-
olutionary soul force that
can, and will change the
world for real.

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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 moan-
ings.

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 alterna-
tives 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 instru-
ments, 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 sex-
ists" 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 gr-
rrl 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 com-
petition + 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 informa-
tion 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.

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"The Riot Grrrl Movement
began in the early 1990s
by Washington State band
Bikini Kill and lead singer
Kathleen Hanna.The riot
grrrl manifesto was pub-
lished 1991 in the BIKINI
KILL ZINE 2"

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