definatalie: kathleenjoy: “I guarantee that any woman blogging about anything remotely political or gender-related (or sometimes just anything) has the same ‘schizo’ experience—laudatory comments one day, abusive comments the next, and the constant pressure to be ‘nice.’ So maybe blogging—even mainstream blogging—isn’t so very distant from zine-ing or punk-rocking—maybe it does represent a thread, however distant, of the Riot Grrrl legacy.” + Quiet Riot (New Yorker) (And also, this.) (via melissa) (via forwardretreat) Seen this in performance art too. Looks like however an unprivileged group tries to express themselves, they’ll still be considered “uppity”.

definatalie:

kathleenjoy:

“I guarantee that any woman blogging about anything remotely political or gender-related (or sometimes just anything) has the same ‘schizo’ experience—laudatory comments one day, abusive comments the next, and the constant pressure to be ‘nice.’ So maybe blogging—even mainstream blogging—isn’t so very distant from zine-ing or punk-rocking—maybe it does represent a thread, however distant, of the Riot Grrrl legacy.”

+ Quiet Riot (New Yorker) (And also, this.)

(via melissa) (via forwardretreat)

Seen this in performance art too. Looks like however an unprivileged group tries to express themselves, they’ll still be considered “uppity”.