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Rineke Dijkstra is a Dutch artist interested in photographing subjects in new and profound ways. She is one of the main artists I decided to research because of the amount of photographs she made that focused on women of all different types of ages, sizes and races. In this sense, her artwork is a feminist act in which she showcases women as they are, without any sense of commodification, oversexualization or expectations placed on them. Feminism is about accepting people as they are, without seeing any one person as better. In this piece, the subject is a female dressed in a black bathing suit, with an anklet on, her medium length dark hair. The artist does not reveal much, but at the same time, she reveals the girl’s self consciousness in the way that she is posed. In this series, the people are gazing directly at the audience. These young subjects are almost bare, showing themselves to the audience. It seems as though there is no camera in front of them. There is nothing in between ...

Ana Mendieta’s works are ethereal combinations of body, nature and the relationships that we have with the Earth. She has created many feminist pieces that further relate to womenand their connection with the Earth and others. One of the most poignant and feminist art pieces that I came across in my research was Ana Mendieta’s Untitled (Rape Scene) which was a response to a rape case that occurred in the Iowan university campus she attended. According to the Tate it was a: Response to a brutal and highly publicized rape and murder of a nursing student, Sara Ann Otten, by another student in March 1973. The following month Mendieta invited her fellow students to her apartment where, through a door left purposefully ajar, they found her in the position recorded in this photograph, which recreated the scene as reported in the press. Some time later, Mendieta recalled that her audience ‘all sat down, and started talking about it. I didn’t move. I stayed in position about an hour. It rea...

04/27/16 playlist LINK stream WRGP A special playlist celebrating my LAST show on air!! s/o to everyone who has tuned in & supported <3 Childbirth – Women’s Rights Courtney Barnett – Are You Looking After Yourself HINDS – Chili Town Girlpool – Before The World Was Big SALES – Big Sis Mr Twin Sister – I Want A House Chastity Belt – Time To Go Home Julia Holter – How Long? St. Vincent – Just The Same But Brand New Tennis – Petition Daughter – To Belong Lykke Li – Little Bit Sucre – Young and Free Peach Kelli Pop – Heart Eyes Upset – Glass Ceiling CocoRosie – God Has a Voice, She Speaks Through Me Koko Beware – Devil In His Heart Penny & The Quarters – You and Me Viudas E Hijas De Roque Enroll – Lollipop Tegan and Sara – Goodbye, Goodbye Alvvays – Archie, Marry Me Le Tigre – Mediocrity Rules (Live) Honeyblood – Super Rat Wolf Alice – Bros Swell Season – Falling Slowly Aerolineas Federales – Soy Una Punk Jeanette – Corazón de Poeta tUnE-yAr...

04/19/16 playlist LINK stream WRGP A special playlist celebrating my penultimate show on air!! The Julie Ruin – I Decide Savages -T.I.W.Y.G Bleached – I’m All Over the Place Colleen Green – Things that Are Bad For Me (Part 1) Wet – Don’t Wanna Be Your Girl Babes – ATMO Belle Mare – Dark Of My Evening Sofie Winterson – I Only Wanted You Gracie and Rachel – Go Eskimeaux – Power Violents – Blush Sales – Vow The Jensens – Sick Sad World Loveletting – This World The Tontons – Pony Sara Hartman – Monster Lead Me Home Emily Wells- Mama’s Gonna Give You Love Speedy Ortiz – Pioneer Spine Ex Hex – Radio On Chastity Belt – IDC Tacocat – Dana Katherine Scully Lucy Dacus – I Don’t Wanna Be Funny Anymore The Prettiots – Move to LA Sweet Spirit – Take Me To A Party Molly Nilsson – I Hope You Die Potty Mouth – The Bomb Chastity Belt – Drone WALL – Cuban Cigars The Beverlys – Kissing with Braces Sleater-Kinney – Hey Darling The Coathangers – Excuse Me? DILLY DALLY – I...

playlist LINK stream WRGP A special playlist for World Poetry Day 2016. I tried make a seamless & smooth transition of poems + songs! Celebrate women writers and musicians. Maya Angelou read by Ruby Dee – Phenomenal Woman Empress Of – Woman is a Word Elizabeth Barrett Browning read by Stella Gonet – How Do I Love Thee Echosmith – Tell Her You Love Her Edna St. Vincent Millay – Love Is Not All Nina Simone – I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to be Free Still Corners – Don’t Fall In Love Ella Wheeler Wilcox read by Meryl Streep – Solitude Dream Wife – Hey Heartbreaker Gertrude Stein – If I Told Him Tei Shi – See Me Elizabeth Bishop – The Fish Poema – Forget You in L.A. Emily Bronte read by Eva Karpf – How Clear She Shines Woman’s Hour – In Stillness We Remain Au Revoir Simone – Love You Don’t Know Me Maya Angelou – Come and Be My Baby Summer Camp – Learn to Love Yourself Nikki Giovanni read by Amber Rose Johnson – Walking Down Park Varsity – So Sad, So Sad...

03/01/16 playlist link stream WRGP A special playlist celebrating Women’s History Month, nature & art! Assata Shakur – My Beliefs LION BABE – Wonder Woman Shirley Chrisholm – speech from 1972 Solange – Bad Girls (Verdine Version) TLC – Waterfalls Maipei – Don’t Wait Edna St. Vincent Milay – City Trees Eisley – The Valley Retsin – Big Song Girlpool – Plants and Worms Mothers – No Crying in Baseball Courtney Barnett – Small Poppies Bjork – Black Lake Zola Jesus – Sea Talk Ibeyi – River Madame S0 – Let’s Dance (David Bowie cover) ** Le Tigre – My Art Julee Cruise – The Art of Being a Girl Allie – Tundra Waxahatchee – Under a Rock Now, Now – Wolf Tracy Bonham – Mother, Mother HINDS – Garden Koko Beware – Beach Babe Violent Mae – In the Sun PJ Harvey – Down By The Water Janis Joplin – Half Moon Heart – Sunflower Sylvia Plath – Green Rock, Winthrop Bay Joni Mitchell – California

Hannah Wilke by Evelyne Zapata Self Portraiture; self-preservation and sensuality. These terms are all relevant to the well-known feminist Hannah Wilke’s art work. Throughout her short life, she presented herself in several settings all with one thing in common - they represent a sense of preservation for her and women in general. “Wilke used the various mediums of photography, performance, sculpture, and video to examine and challenge prevailing notions of femininity, feminism, and sexuality” (Guggenheim). “Hannah Wilke was an influential second-generation feminist artist whose work in sculpture and performance art challenged gender stereotypes and probed the relationship between aesthetics, eroticism, and politics. Wilke began her career as a sculptor, creating pieces in clay and terracotta that evoke both organic forms and female genitalia, a symbol of women’s empowerment in the 1970s” (Princeton Art Museum). One of the earliest works that Wilke made was when she was in her ...

Riot Grrrl #41 2/16/16 Tuesdays 6-8pm stream WRGP playlist link A special playlist dedicated to songs about love & self empowerment by black women in honor of black HERstory month! Queen Latifah – Ladies First Celia Cruz – Yo Vivire (I Will Survive) Queen Latifah – U.N.I.T.Y India.Arie. – Brown Skin The Supremes – Where Did Our Love Go Beyonce – At Last (Etta James cover) Nina Simone – Four Women Billie Holiday – I’m a Fool to Want You Ella Fitzgerald – I Got It Bad (And That Ain’t Good) Dinah Washington – Cry Me a River Sarah Vaughan – I Ain’t Got Nothin’ But the Blues (Duke Ellington cover) Jo Ann Garrett – One Woman Victoria Spivey – I Ain’t Gonna Let You See My Santa Claus Katie Webster – Never Let Me Go Big Maybelle – Don’t Pass Me By Shemeika Copeland – Whole Lotta Water Koko Taylor – I’m a Woman Shirley Horn – Hit the Road Jack Chaka Khan ft. Mary J.Blige – Disrespectful Emeli Sande – My Kind of Love Beyonce – You Don’t Love Me, No No No Quee...

Riot Grrrl #38 1/26/16 playlist link stream WRGP A special playlist dedicated to Virginia Woolf & Dana Scully Virginia Woolf – Blue & Green Chelsea Wolfe – Virginia Woolf Underwater Celia Johnson reading Virginia Woolf – Words Dala – Virginia Woolf Warpaint – Ashes to Ashes Lykke Li – I Never Learn Eisley – Deep Space Hinds - Solar Mark Snow – X files theme song Ella Fitzgerald – Two Little Men In A Flying Saucer London Grammar – If You Wait Soko – I Thought I Was an Alien Keira Knightly – Lost Stars Blondie – Rapture Peach Kelli Pop – New Moon Spice Girls – Outer Space Girls Cibo Matto – 10th Floor Ghost Girl Gaze – Static Waxahatchee – Half Moon Sia – Moon Angel Olsen – Lonely Universe Fiona Apple – Across the Universe Alvvays – Red Planet The Space Lady – Major Tom Echobelly – Gravity Pulls be your own PET – Black Hole Cub – Little Star Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Art Star

Riot Grrrl #37 1/19/16 playlist  link stream  WRGP A special playlist for anyone who is a fan of music made by Mexican/Chicana woman.Today we focus on Chicana women and the importance of feminism in this culture. Natalia Lafourcade – Mujer Divina Ximena Sarinana – Fiesta forEver Selena – God’s Child (Baila Conmigo) Ruido Rosa – Miedo a Caer Jefes Del Desierto – Flor Y Pondio el Colibri Volovan – Monitor Ely Guerra – Quiereme Mucho Sidecars – Los amantes Julieta Venegas – Explosion Selena – Disco Medley – Live/1995 Natalia Lafourcade – Lo Que Construimos Ely Guerra – Ojos Claros, Labios Rosas Bomba Estereo – Algo Esta Cambiando Jefes del Desierto – La Historia de la Luna Ximena Sarinana – Juntos por Siempre Natalia Lafourcade – No Mas Lllorar Olivia Blu – Loose Womyn Kumbia Queers – Celosa Paty Cantu – Suerte Ximena Sarinana – La vida no es facil Natalia Lafourcade – Mi Lugar Favorito Juanita y Los Feos – Reina Por Un Dia Juana Molina – Wed 21 Pa...

Riot Grrrl #36 1/12/16 Playlist link Stream WRGP A special playlist for a girl gang adventure inspired by  Amelia Earhart ; the first female pilot to fly across the Atlantic Ocean & advocated for women's education & rights! Amelia Earhart – On the Future of Women in Flying Heather Eatman – The Amelia Earhart Waltz Freakwater – Amelia Earhart Kathy Kallick – Amelia Earharts Last Flight Lykke Li – I Know Places London Grammar – High Life Joy Williams – Welcome Home Laura Marling – I Was an Eagle Lucy Rose – Place Oh Wonder – Drive Hearts – Wings MS MR – No Trace Regina Spektor – Small Town Moon Marina and the Diamonds – Hollywood Pale Honey – Desert Lykke Li – Hold On, We’re Going Home Karen O – NYC Baby La Sera – Kiss This Town Away Mitski – Last Words of A Shooting Star La Sera – Running Wild Kilo Tango – East Coast Girl Honeyblood – (I’d Rather Be) Anywhere But Here Kate Nash – Take Me To A Higher Plane Hole – Miss World La Luz – Don’t ...

Amelia Earhart: What We Can Learn From The Feminist Icon  by Amanda Chatel January 11, 1935 – Amelia Earhart makes the first solo flight from Hawaii to North America

Riot Grrrl #35 Tue. 1/5/16 Playlist  link Stream  WRGP A special playlist about radical softness: emotional vulnerability by women "BECAUSE we want and need to encourage and be encouraged in the face of all our own insecurities, in the face of beergutboyrock that tells us we can't play our instruments, in the face of "authorities" who say our bands/zines/etc are the worst in the US" - Riot Grrrl manifesto Nicole Dollanganger – You’re So Cool Cherry Glazerr – Teenage Girl Nicole Dollanganger – Poacher’s Pride Frankie Cosmos – Young Girlpool – Ideal World Eskineaux – Bigly, Small and Underheard Waxahatchee – La Loose First Aid Kit – New Year’s Eve Alvvays – Red Planet Skating Polly – Aging Lyyke Li – Sadness is a Blessing Lucy Rose – Gamble Grimes – Vanessa Beach House – New Year Laura Marling – Ghosts Angel Olsen – Lonely Universe Zora Neale Hurston – There Stands a Bluebird Kate Nash – Fri-End? Sales – Chinese New Year Colleen Green ...

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JANUARY 5, 2016   FIRST SHOW OF THE NEW YEAR! NEW DATE!  NEW TIME! TUESDAYS 6-8PM EST get ready to get your mind blown by amazing riot grrrls of the week  and the theme of radical softness!! Here's one of the first patches I ever made!

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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 th...

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)