By Laura Tisdall “Shocking Pink, from its very first issue, laid out the issues facing young women by explicitly reckoning with age as an axis of oppression in a way that Spare Rib tended to avoid. In this way, although the magazine set itself up as in opposition to mainstream eighties teenage magazines like Jackie, …
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By Natalie Coulter “The girl is “understood” purely in market terms, not as a citizen with collective needs and desires, not a complex heterogenous category with diverse experiences of girlhood based on class, race, ethnicity, sexuality, ability, etc. But instead as a consumer, assumed to be a white, middle class, able bodied, heterosexual girl, whose …
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By Katherine Kruger “The revolution is about going to the playground with your best girlfriends. You are hanging upside down on the bars and all the blood is rushing to your head. It’s a euphoric feeling. The boys can see our underwear and we don’t really care.” Quote: Kathleen Hanna. ‘Bikini Kill: A Color and …
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