But, Wilson says she never really felt at home at riot grrrl shows. Queercore and riot grrrl both grew out of punk. They were part of a movement known as Queercore, originally called Homocore. And eventually, they started a band together called Team Dresch. Reyna: While she was still in high school, Wilson became penpals with Donna Dresch. Wilson: I think she was the first dyke that I was like, “That’s like me! That’s a person that makes total sense to me in all the ways.” Reyna: Around the same time she met Allison and Molly, Kaia Wilson discovered the zine “Chainsaw.” It was made by a musician in Olympia named Donna Dresch. And then they said it was cool that I was in high school and gay and I was like, “Oh really? That’s cool, okay, I guess that’s cool.” Wilson: I remember that they thought it was really cool that I was in high school and that I was gay and it didn’t make any sense to me at the time because I just felt kind of embarrassed that I was in high school. Wilson remembers meeting them at a party. This was 1991 and Allison Wolfe and Molly Neuman of Bratmobile were at the University of Oregon in Eugene. Reyna: (It was a band of all women.) She also began venturing out to the closest city – Eugene, Oregon. Wilson: When I was 17, I was in a band called A Dick Did, That is A-D-I-C-K-D-I-D. Reyna: Through zines and the nearby college radio station, Wilson learned about riot grrrl bands and it wasn’t long before she started making music herself. I did not get physically assaulted but I got verbally assaulted and then I also got dead animals put on my windshield. Wilson: …and at some point once I did come out more publicly or whatever in my high school, I had definitely some targeted homophobia and weird things happen to me. Reyna: She says she didn’t really have any role models in her community… Wilson: At that age like 13, 14, I was just starting to come out to myself, kind of, and my dog. Kaia Wilson: I don’t know, punk just I guess resonated because I felt like I was so different and it was the thing that I could see around me that was like the freak, the freak music like because I felt like a freak.įabi Reyna: Kaia Wilson grew up in a small Oregon town called Jasper. Special thanks to JT Griffith and our riot grrrl manifesto readers: Deena Barnwell, Jenn Chávez and Prakruti Bhatt.
Voices in this episode: Musicians Kaia Wilson, Corin Tucker and Tobi Vail, zine-maker and artist Ramdasha Bikceem, scholar and “Girls to the Front” author Sara Marcus, ethnomusicologist and author Laina Dawes, and writer, artist and musician Brontez Purnell
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