90s feminist punk such as theebikinikill is still radical and urgent in 2019 writes CharlotteGush.
, Kathleen, Tobi, Kathi and new bassist Erica Dawn Lyle took to the stage, did a few lunges to limber up, and launched into, a mantra for the unapologetic feminist hardcore: “I'm the little girl at the picnic / Who won't stop pulling her dress up / ... What the fuck! Is written / All over your pretty face / The gaps in teeth / The dirty nails / Baby boy, you can't kill what's fucking real.
It is also a challenge to preconceptions about the meaning, intent and importance of what a woman is wearing. The band’s confrontational style sends a message: you can be a punk musician and wear a puffy pink dress. You can be a full person, with something serious and important to say, while wearing just your pants. And, for that matter, you can be in a band even if you can’t play.
“[At the beginning of riot grrrl,] there was some idea that we were playing our instruments badly on purpose,” Tobi said. “But we weren’t. We swapped instruments on stage -- playing the ones we weren’t the best at -- to show the process of learning. Because you didn’t see it,” she said, noting the lack of opportunity and support for women musicians, then and now.
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