"…the call to revive riot grrrl often takes the form of a feminist melancholy for some prior moment of feminist optimism in which the present can only be understood as failure — which is troubling, since the reasons for the demise of riot grrrl had to do with some truly spectacular racism and classism, and to mourn its demise too often “blames” racial tension, and by extension girls and women of color, as a source of violence."

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