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 Tobi Vail, may have coined "Riot Grrrl" Riot Grrrl (Riot Grrl) was a young feminist movement mainly within the punk rock and alternative music scenes beginning in the early 1990s in Olympia, WA and Washington DC. Due to the media scrutiny in the mid-1990s and other factors within the actual movement, Riot Grrrl stalled. Today it is considered or studied as a subcategory of third wave feminism, and there are currently no known active Riot Grrrl chapters. Riot Grrrl was influential in the punk rock and alternative music scenes, as well as in other independent media and allowed young women to assert themselves in the male dominated scenes of both music and zines. It was argued in Media Whore #5 (published in 2005) that the riot grrrl spirit primarily exists in zines made by young women today.
Most Riot Grrrl zines or zines from the Riot Grrrl era were of the personal-political variety, meaning writing about political issues from a personal perspective.
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