The Riot Grrrl Collection by Lisa Darms Johanna Fateman Kathleen Hanna

Author:Lisa Darms, Johanna Fateman, Kathleen Hanna
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
Published: 2015-01-18T16:00:00+00:00

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I’m laughing so hard it doesn’t look like I’m laughing anymore...

I’m humming really loud along with a couple othere thosand people, I’m trying to drown out the sound of myself and everyone else.

I laugh sometimes when things aren’t very funny, it’s a nervous laughter because I sometimes don’t know what else to do. When situations escalate to a point where I’ve lost control, I laugh. But lately, I’ve stopped laughing and I’m starting to get a grip on things.

I used to laugh at this whole white bread punk rock scene, but now i’m not laughing as much as i’m getting more annoyed. I swear every punk show I go to I’m usually the only person of color in the joint and nobody seems to even question this or even seem to mind. I think my friend Beth was telling m that somebody said that punx were the “white niggers”. What exactly does this mean? I guess it means that punx, like African Americans often reflect what alot of people don’t want to see. They don’t want to see the result of their opressive society. Punx are revolting against a society that has repressed personal expression, which has intern resulted in the way of alot of them (us???) [d?]ress and act etc... Whereas in the case of African Americans their (our????) opression has resulted in poverty, lack of education and low self-images. But, what this concept of “white nigger” fails to realize is that white punx couldn’t possibly come close to the stigma that is attached and associated with African Amercicans. White kids in general regardless if they are punk or not can get away with having green mohawks and pierced lips ’cause no matter how much they deviated from the norms of society their whitenss always shows through. For instance, I’ll go out somewhere with my friends who all look equally as wierd as me, but say we get hassled by the cops for skating or something. That cop is going to remember my face alot clearet than say one of my white girlfriends. I can just hear him now...“Yeah there was this black girl w/pink hair and two other girls”

Another true to life exampl would be when I used to be friends with this boy and he kinda got a crush on me. He was a white boy and his mom was ultra conservative. She didn’t mind so much that I was friends w/him, but as soon as she found out that he wanted to be more than friedns she immediately said: “I don’t want you hanging around with that BLACK* girl. ( note she didn’t say I don’t want you hanging around that green-haired-shaved-head-too-many holes-in-her-ear- girls ... she said BLACK* girl) You see, she could handle the way I looked, but she drew the line

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