Not Bad for a Girl

Lori Barbero Kat Bjelland

The documentary features indepth interviews with every band member, including Donita Sparks and Jennifer Finch from L7, Courtney Love from Hole, Kat Bjelland from Babes in Toyland, and Becky Wreck from the Lunachicks along with clips from live performances from 19891994. It also features female rock communities including riot grrrl and the first annual Riot Grrl Convention, Rock n Roll High School of Melbourne Australia, and the Feminist Majority Foundation sponsored Rock for Choice benefits with L7 Joan Jett. According to press releases, the film explores themes such as the musicians relationship to creativity and music, the negotiation of gender identity and gender performance feminist term coined by Judith Butler through rock, subversion of stereotypes and gendered expectations through stage play performances and stylization of the body, and the processes of healing and reclaiming through musical expressions.The sequel Not Bad for a Girl book contains images, anecdotes, reviews, interviews from many more bands unable to fit into the original including Bikini Kill, Bratmobile, Strangefruit,Year Bitch, Tribe 8, Dickless, Girl in a Coma and rock musicians in France, Japan, Brazil, Italy and the Middle East. ........

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