Between PJ Harvey’s forthcoming performance art piece-album, the news that L7 may reunite, Björk’s impending MoMA extravaganza, and Sleater-Kinney’s questionably-clad turn in The New York Times last Sunday, we’ve got the women of alt-rock’s ’90s heyday on the brain. Long before every pop ingenue was espousing some nebulous idea of feminism on social media, there were riot grrrls, grunge queens, and punk goddesses. Click through the slideshow for some of our favorites.
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"Rebel girl, rebel girl/You are the queen of my world." Bikini Kill—most famously the band's front woman, Kathleen Hanna (pictured)—were Olympia, Washington's elder stateswomen of the riot grrrl movement.