The always gorgeous Ramdasha stopped in yesterday serving casual silk-and-leather batwing elegance. Shaun touched up her color before she set off for an international Designer Imposter engagement.
She custom studded this fanny pack for Shaun complete with the perfect LABRYS CHARM. It's like she knows him really well or something!
xo,
Molly,
So much SEAGULL VIP action percolating in MoMA's programming right now:
One of our favorites, poet/ writer/storyteller/cultural commenter and Seagull client Eileen Myles will read from the new "Failure" issue of the Review of Contemporary Fiction at tomorrow's MoMA PS1 Saturday Session in a special lit-party edition hosted by Triple Canopy and Dalkey Archive.
Eileen Myles reads an excerpt from INFERNO (a poet's novel) from Rattapallax on Vimeo.
AND...the new Le Tigre documentary Who Took the Bomp? screens at MoMA this Monday April 4!
Le Tigre also represents in the Looking at Music 3.0 exhibition currently on view at MoMA. Their song "Bang! Bang!" is including in a listening station, and reading tables feature a grip of zines by Kathleen Hanna and Johanna. Get into Le Tigre at MoMA- the exhibition is up through June 6.
xo,
Molly,
Johanna wrote a full-page review of Sara Marcus's new book Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution for the latest issue of Bookforum. It's an insightful, contextual and lovely (p)review of what looks to be an epic account of the movement/era that so many are reexamining today. Check it out.
xo,
Molly,
Wanna know what I was doing before SEAGULL? Well luckily now there is a film about it. "Le Tigre: On Tour," directed by Kerthy Fix, will screen as a work-in-progress in New York City this Wednesday, June 9th at the SVA theater on West 23rd Street as a part of NEWFEST. Kathleen and I will be there for a good old-fashioned Q&A (JD's in Brazil with MEN). xoxo JOHANNA
PS If you can't make it to this screening watch for more festival dates and info about a future DVD release on the Le Tigre website and the blog we now have specifically for DVD updates.
Lisa Darms and Kathleen Hanna's file cabinet. Photo: David Wentworth
The Village Voice speaks with Kathleen Hanna and NYU archivist/Seagull homegirl Lisa Darms about the formation of the Fales Library's groundbreaking new Riot Grrrl Collection--get all the details here.
Have you checked the Bikini Kill Archive lately? It's good.
"I remember, in 2004 (because right now, I’m 11 years old), I was 7 and my mom listen to punk music since she’s 14 so I’m really into it. The first punk band that was my favourite was called “Harum Scarum” and I was 4, it was like political punk rock with female singers. I was really in love with punk bands with female singers and I’m still in. At the age of 6 my favorite band ever was Team Dresch and my hero was Kaia Wilson. My mom was playing a lot of Heavens to Betsy and a bit of Sleater-Kinney. And I didn’t know it but I was in love with a lot of Riot Grrrl bands…. The first time that I’ve heard Bikini Kill was, when my mom was playing Pussy Whipped. I didn’t pay attention to the songs because we had a tons of punk rock/hardcore/metal albums and for me it was just a punk rock record like the others. I start to pay attention to it when Rebel Girl start playing. I was not that good in english at this time cause I speak French, but I knew what 'Rebel girl, you are the queen of my world!' means..."
--Lenora D. Read the rest of her story here.
Amazing.
WHOAH!! NYU's Fales Library has announced a new addition to its legendary trove of special collections: the Riot Grrrrl Collection, intended to "support scholarship in feminism, punk activism, queer theory and music history." The Riot Grrrl Collection's first major acquisition is a hefty score--Kathleen Hanna has donated her personal collection of zines, correspondence and other writing from the early days of Riot Grrrl and her time in Bikini Kill. How fantastic is it that people will actually be able to thumb through Kathleen Hanna's personal zine collection and LETTERS? It's a 90's dream come true, but more significantly, the collection will stand as officially sanctioned acknowledgment of riot grrrl as an important contribution to feminism worthy of preservation and study.
The Kathleen Hanna Papers (really love writing that) are being overseen by Fales Library Senior Archivist and longtime Seagull friend Lisa Darms, who played a key role in the acquisition of Hanna's papers as well as the creation of the Riot Grrrl archives. She works extensively with the amazing Downtown Collection, which houses touchstones and relics from a bevy of pioneers such as Nan Goldin, Jimmy DeSana, and Richard Hell. The upcoming exhibition Downtown Pix: Mining the Fales Archives, 1961–1991 promises to be a juicy photographic survey of three decade's worth of tumultuous, artful and crazed times in downtown NYC, archived for your vicarious viewing pleasure. Get into it!
XO,
Molly, SEAGULL
