Grrl

You end up being a projection screen for everyone’s unfinished business: butches excluded because they were “too male identified”; women body-builders and transmen who started testosterone because they made the space unsafe with their “male energy”; leatherdykes because they were into “violence against women” and that made the vanilla grrlz “feel threatened”; lesbos because the straight women were sure they’d get jumped, and on and on and on.

A rough-and-tumble newsprint equivalent is Wilds Woman (subtitled “Women Getting Wild Outside”) that also rounds up reviews of gear, rock groups, and “grrlz on film.”

Graffiti Women was the first book specifically about graffiti grrlz and street artists; Ganz himself noted how despite incremental improvement the inclusion of grrlz in graffiti art publications remained sparse.