īikceem moved to Brooklyn, New York in 1993. A clip of this performance and an interview with Bikceem was featured in Lisa Rose Apramian's 1995 music documentary Not Bad for a Girl. She sang and played guitar in a band under the name Gunk that performed at the first Riot Grrrrl Convention in 1992 in Washington, D.C. īikceem started playing guitar when she was around 14 or 15. Excerpts from GUNK were reprinted in The Riot Grrrl Collection anthology, compiled by Lisa Darms from the Riot Grrrl Archives at Fales Library at NYU. That cop is going to remember my face a lot clearer than say one of my white girlfriends." She also wrote about the lack of diversity within riot grrrl. In GUNK #4 Bikceem wrote about the politics of being a Black grrrl: "I'll go out somewhere with my friends who all look equally as weird as me, but say we get hassled by the cops for skating or something. She published five issues, which contained multiple essays attempting to articulate the double burden of being a black person and a girl. In 1990, at the age of 15, Bikceem started her own zine GUNK focused on punk, skateboarding, feminism, and racism. She found out about riot grrrl zines, such as Bikini Kill and Girl Germs, after a friend became Tobi Vail's roommate in Olympia, Washington. She was influenced by Joan Jett, X-Ray Spex, Grace Jones, Lunachicks, Run DMC, and Queen Latifah. History īikceem was raised in New Jersey in the 1970s, by parents into music and art.
She published the pioneering riot grrrl zine GUNK in the early 1990s, which explored intersections of race and gender in punk and skateboarding. Passed person to person, riot grrrl culture advances a true revolution in which 'girl' qualities like candor and empathy are no longer trivialized and can re-make the world.Ramdasha Bikceem is an American writer, singer, and musician.
Riot grrrl shows us that feminism isn't synonymous with consumer empowerment.
The Riot Grrrl Collection reproduces a sampling of the original zines, posters, and printed matter for the first time since their initial distribution in the 1980s and '90s, and includes an original essay by Johanna Fateman and an introduction by Lisa Darms."The materials in this book are more important than ever. (-Kathleen Hanna, Bikini Kill) Before the rise of the Internet or desktop publishing, the zine and music culture of the Riot Grrrl movement empowered young women across the country to speak out against sexism and oppression, creating a powerful new force of liberation and unity within and outside of the women's movement.While feminist bands like Bikini Kill and Bratmobile fought for their place in a male-dominated punk scene, their members and fans developed an extensive DIY network of activism and support. Archival material from the 1990s underground movement that served as a "gateway drug to feminist history" for so many.
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