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Riot Grrrl 12/17/115 playlist link stream WRGP A special playlist of the best holiday songs Cat Power – Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas Caroline – Winter El Perro Del Mar – Oh! What a Christmas Stevie Nicks – Silent Night Regina Spektor – My Dear Acquaintance Daniela Andrade – Let it Snow Tegan and Sara – The Chipmunk Song The Tuts – Christmas Is in the Air Carole King – Christmas in the Air Parenthetical Girls – Festive Friends (Forever) Girl In a Coma – Blue Christmas LIINES – Lonely This Christmas Eleanor Friedberger – Santa, Bring My Baby Back (To Me) Joan Jett & The Blackhearts – Little Drummer Boy Crocodiles, Dum Dum Girls – Merry Christmas, Baby (Please Don’t Die) Spice Girls- Christmas Wrapping

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I'm Nobody! Who are you? by Emily Dickinson, 1830 - 1886 "Emily Dickinson is considered one of the most famous poets in the history of American literature. Though socially shy, she was outspoken and emotional in her lyric poetry (short poems with one speaker who expresses thought and feeling), defying the nineteenth-century expectation that women were to be demure and obedient to men. Her honest and uninhibited writing made her an early feminist voice, even as she maintained an outward appearance of submissiveness. Dickinson’s seclusion allowed her to focus on developing her poetry. Her poems addressed emotional and psychological states such as loneliness, pain, happiness, and ecstasy; death, often personified; religion and morality; as well as love and love lost." - source Efrat Ben Zur - I'm Nobody Efrat Ben Zur is an Israeli singer and actress who made the album  "Robin"  in which she sings Emily Dickinson's poems! Check it out - it&

Riot Grrrl #33 12/10/15 playlist link stream WRGP A special playlist in honor of Emily Dickinson (born December 10, 1830) This episode was a lot of fun to put together in honor of Emily Dickinson's birthday. There were so many songs I wanted to play, but here are the songs and poems that I think are quintessential of Emily Dickinson's poems. My favorite poem is  I'm Nobody  and I think Efrat Ben Zur sings it beautifully! I also love Girlpool and the song "Emily" and so this was a great match. I also enjoyed including different women reading her poems and even female artists that cover her poems. I also wanted to create an aura of isolation because she almost never left her house and is famous for always staying in. Despite this, she made over 1,000 poems in her lifetime that are still being read and studied almost two centuries later. She is a true riot grrrl for her feminist themes and autonomy of her own life. Laurie Anderson – The Lake – I

GWENDOLYN BROOKS (June 7, 1917 – December 2, 2000) The first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize, Brooks is considered a major poet of the twentieth century. She is known for her sensitive representations of black urban life and for combining African American vernacular speech with the poetic conventions of traditional verse. -  source we real cool by gwendolyn brooks We real cool. We Left school. We  Lurk late. We  Strike straight. We  Sing sin. We  Thin gin. We  Jazz June. We  Die soon. the mother by gwendolyn brooks Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get, The damp small pulps with a little or with no hair, The singers and workers that never handled the air. You will never neglect or beat Them, or silence or buy with a sweet. You will never wind up the sucking-thumb Or scuttle off ghosts that come. You will never leave them, controlling your luscious sigh

December 1, 1955 – Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus to a white person; her arrest sparks the modern civil rights movement in the US December 5, 1935 – Mary McLeod Bethune creates the National Council of Negro Women December 7, 1941 – Capt. Annie Fox receives the first Purple Heart awarded to a woman for her service while under attack at Pearl Harbor BDAY: Te Ate, interpreter of Cherokee, Chickasawa, Creek, Choctaw and other tribes in theater performances of these original cultures, entertained, educated, enlightened and inspired Americans like Eleanor Roosevelt and visitors like English royalty

A very special edition: Covers by riot grrrls 12/3/15 Playlist link Stream WRGP Dead Sara – Heart-Shaped Box (nirvana cover) Amanda Palmer – Fake Plastic Trees (radiohead cover) PJ Harvey – Highway ’61 Revisted (bob dyaln cover) Evelyn Evelyn – Love Will Tear Us Apart (joy division cover) Juliet Simms – Oh! Darling (beatles cover) the bird and the bee- How Deep Is Your Love (beegees cover) Anni B Sweet – Take On Me (aha cover) Dum Dum Girls – There is a Light That Never Goes Out (smiths cover) Cat Power – (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction (rolling stones cover) The Donnas – Dancing With Myself (billy idol cover) She & Him – God Only Knows (beach boys cover) Mike + Ruthy – I’ll Keep it with Mine (bob dyaln cover) Russian Red – Girls Just Want to Have Fun (cyndi lauper cover) Sinead O’ Connor – All Apologies (nirvana cover)