I had this checked out at my library for a little while. I was intimidated by it being nonfiction I thought it would be hard to read but as soon as I started I realized that was not the case. The narrative form with the quotes and everything mixed in made it very easy to read. I felt very inspired learning more in depth about the history of riot grrl. 

However, reading this at this stage in history was definitely a little weird since it was published in 2010 and so much worse stuff has happened since then like roe v wade being over turned. Also the last chapter or 2 really focused on the downfall and infighting which wasn’t as uplifting when I’m already reading it in a period of feeling really shitty about the state of revolution in our country. I definitely am grateful for those chapters though because it was helpful to see the ways Revolution burn out also correlate to the anger and angst of being a young adult. I just don’t know how to continue to interact with Revolution in a concrete way as I get older/at this time in history and this book wasn’t really meant to provide that anyways. 

The other thing that was difficult was just remembering all these peoples names. I wish there was more of an index with a short bio on each person (although I definitely liked in the end knowing what each of these people are doing now). 

Overall it was really great I’m glad I read it and I’m happy it was written!!!