Dirty Girls at 30: Why the spirit of riot grrrl and bad hygiene endures
Three decades since the cult documentary was filmed, its message of rejecting beauty standards and scepticism towards mainstream culture continues to inspire generations of rebels
Black News 
It’s been 30 years since Michael Lucid, then a senior at Crossroads School in Santa Monica, filmed a group of his 13-year-old schoolmates known as the “dirty girls” on VHS. The grainy footage, which captures a group of friends “notorious for their crass behaviour and allegedly bad hygiene,” is a time capsule of 1990s riot grrrl culture, the underground feminist movement rooted in punk rock, DIY zines and feminist activism.
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