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'''[[Donna Dresch]]''' is a [[zine]] editor and musician based in [[Portland, OR]]. where she also runs the independent record label Chainsaw.
  
'''[[Riot Grrrl]]''' (Riot Grrl) was a young feminist movement mainly within the punk rock and alternative music scenes beginning in the early 1990s in Olympia, WA and Washington DC. Due to the media scrutiny in the mid-1990s and other factors within the actual movement, Riot Grrrl stalled. Today it is considered or studied as a subcategory of third wave feminism, and there are currently no known active Riot Grrrl chapters. Riot Grrrl was influential in the punk rock and alternative music scenes, as well as in other independent media and allowed young women to assert themselves in the male dominated scenes of both music and [[zines]]. It was argued in [[Media Whore]] #5 (published in 2005) that the riot grrrl spirit primarily exists in zines made by young women today.  
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Donna began her zine ''[[Chainsaw]]'' in the late 1980s in Olympia, WA. Four issues were released. It was one of the early queercore zines as well as a proto-[[Riot Grrrl]] zine, since one of its concurrent themes was women in music. The last issue was a music compilation cassette tape, which announced the onset of its existence as a music label. Chainsaw has released recordings by such artists as Sleater Kinney, Team Dresch, Longstocking, The Third Sex, Tracy +the Plastics, The Need, Excuse 17, Heavens to Betsy and many others.
  
Most Riot Grrrl zines or zines from the Riot Grrrl era were of the personal-political variety, meaning writing about political issues from a personal perspective.
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Donna Dresch has been a member of a number of bands, most notably Team Dresch, her namesake band, for which she played guitar and bass. They released two albums and a number of singles in the 1990's and then broke up. However, after reuniting to play a show in 2004, they have since begun to tour and record again. She also been a member of Davies Vs. Dresch, Screaming Trees and Fifth Column.
  
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Donna Dresch

Donna Dresch is a zine editor and musician based in Portland, OR. where she also runs the independent record label Chainsaw.

Donna began her zine Chainsaw in the late 1980s in Olympia, WA. Four issues were released. It was one of the early queercore zines as well as a proto-Riot Grrrl zine, since one of its concurrent themes was women in music. The last issue was a music compilation cassette tape, which announced the onset of its existence as a music label. Chainsaw has released recordings by such artists as Sleater Kinney, Team Dresch, Longstocking, The Third Sex, Tracy +the Plastics, The Need, Excuse 17, Heavens to Betsy and many others.

Donna Dresch has been a member of a number of bands, most notably Team Dresch, her namesake band, for which she played guitar and bass. They released two albums and a number of singles in the 1990's and then broke up. However, after reuniting to play a show in 2004, they have since begun to tour and record again. She also been a member of Davies Vs. Dresch, Screaming Trees and Fifth Column.

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