{"id":7877,"date":"2024-09-19T13:54:03","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T13:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/?p=7877"},"modified":"2024-09-19T13:58:55","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T13:58:55","slug":"voices-from-the-stacks-riot-grrrl-and-the-jen-and-sarah-wolfe-zine-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/2024\/09\/19\/voices-from-the-stacks-riot-grrrl-and-the-jen-and-sarah-wolfe-zine-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Voices from the Stacks: Riot Grrrl and the Jen and Sarah Wolfe Zine Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The following is written by Olson Graduate Research Assistant Kaylee Swinford and Instruction Graduate Assistant M Clark<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On their 1995 track, \u201cCriminal Boy,\u201d female pop punk band Bunnygrunt begs the question: \u2018what is a girl to do?\u2019 The song chronicles a tough sister\u2019s plans to break her all bark and no bite brother out of the slammer, which serves to be a fitting parallel to how the Riot Grrrl feminist movement of the 1990s got its start.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Kitpaw<\/em> zine featuring Bunnygrunt<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

By the ’90s, the male-dominated U.S. punk movement, prominent in cities like Seattle and Portland, had been long ignoring the women participating in and moving forward the empowered anarchist agenda underlying punk music, media, and culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Riot Grrrl Movement, aptly named and noted by its signature growling triple \u201cr\u201d, emerged as an opportunity for women in the punk scene to reclaim and redefine their identities as \u201cgirls\u201d through expressions of anger, rage, and frustration. This subculture combined feminism, punk music, and politics by addressing issues of assault, patriarchy, anarchism, and female empowerment. The growth and success of the movement can be attributed to the multiple modalities used to spread their message: music, zines, art, and other DIYs that served as vessels for political activism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zines can be simply defined as self-written, often self-published and self-distributed \u201cmagazines\u201d of narrow focus, created out of a desire to share. In the case of Riot Grrrl, this included, but was not limited to, punk and feminist literature, social commentary, news, gossip, music reviews, and other topical articles and musings. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Cover of Panophobia<\/em>, zine made by Jen Wolfe<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

The University of Iowa\u2019s Special Collections and Archives\u2019 Sarah and Jen Wolfe Zine Collection <\/a>provides a dynamic, wide-ranging, and intimate glimpse into the zines created and distributed during the Riot Grrrl era. Donors of the collection, sisters Sarah and Jen Wolfe, were active Riot Grrrls throughout the late ’90s and early 2000s, with Jen playing bass for the band Bunnygrunt in 1995\u20131998 and later publishing her own zines: Bunnygrunt<\/em> and Panophobia<\/em>. The sisters also operated their own mail-order distribution service, out of Iowa City, Septophilia, for zines and records both, leading to their large collection of various independent, underground, and occasionally personalized zines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With an established interest in the DIY and communal nature of zines, the Wolfe sisters have curated a thorough and impressive collection that will continue to provide insight of a first-person narrative in both collecting and creating at the height of the Riot Grrrl movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cartoon featured in Winter 1998 Bunnygrunt newsletter <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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If you are interested in seeing this collection or similar collections, email us lib-spec@uiowa.edu and we will help you set up a visit! <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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