The Quiet Before, page 35
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“meant nothing” Shaloff, “Press Controls and Sedition Proceedings in the Gold Coast,” 258.
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“Even breathing” Jones-Quartey, Life of Azikiwe, 134.
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“hilarious uproar” Azikiwe, My Odyssey, 272.
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“revived at about that time” The Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah (New York: T. Nelson, 1957), 22.
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as did Langston Hughes Hughes’s poem about Azikiwe’s arrest and trial was called “Azikiwe in Jail” and included the lines “The British said to Azikiwe, / We’re tired of you running around loose. / We’re going to grab you— / And cook your goose. / Azikiwe said to the British, / That may be— / But you’ll have a tough goose / If you cook me!”
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“the first warning puff” Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah, 18–19.
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Chapter 5: Focus—Moscow, 1968
Other students attacked her Natalya Gorbanevskaya, “Writing for ‘Samizdat,’ ” interview with Michael Scammell, Index on Censorship, Jan. 1, 1977.
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never forgave herself Additional biographical information on Gorbanevskaya came from an oral history that was posted on YouTube and translated for me by Lillian Feldman: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J0Nl52s8Ac.
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after she purchased Mark Hopkins, Russia’s Underground Press: “The Chronicle of Current Events” (New York: Praeger, 1983), 16.
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“I enter my being” “Something’s with Me…” and “And You…,” in Making for the Open: The Chatto Book of Post-feminist Poetry, ed. Carol Rumens (London: Chatto & Windus, 1985), 57–58.
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“Respect the Constitution” Hopkins, Russia’s Underground Press, 23.
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“Process of the Chain Reaction” Mentioned by Gorbanevskaya in oral history.
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“As long as arbitrary action” Natalya Gorbanevskaya, Selected Poems (Oxford, U.K.: Carcanet Press, 1972), 75.
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“Why are they keeping me here?” Natalya Gorbanevskaya, “Free Health Service,” in ibid., 75–105.
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At the top of Issue No. 1 Hopkins, Russia’s Underground Press, 17.
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“Without any warning” Issues of the Chronicle of Current Events were translated and published in Peter Reddaway, Uncensored Russia: Protest and Dissent in the Soviet Union (New York: American Heritage, 1972), 81.
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“It would offer no commentary” Ludmilla Alexeyeva and Paul Goldberg, The Thaw Generation: Coming of Age in the Post-Stalin Era (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993), 206.
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She finished retyping Hopkins, Russia’s Underground Press, 17.
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The most important In addition to Reddaway, Uncensored Russia, 456, all issues of the Chronicle of Current Events were digitized and made available online: chronicle-of-current-events.com/.
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“People had hardly begun” Natalia Gorbanevskaya, Red Square at Noon (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1970), 33.
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“we were able even if briefly” The text of her 1968 letter was reprinted in “The Sludge of Unbridled Lies,” The New York Times, July 15, 1970.
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“non-responsible for her actions” Gorbanevskaya, Selected Poems, 10.
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“From the five issues” Reddaway, Uncensored Russia, 53.
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In that same Issue Ibid., 54.
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In Lenin’s view Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Where to Begin? Party Organization and Party Literature (1901; repr., Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1966).
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“The effect of the Chronicle” Hopkins, Russia’s Underground Press, xx.
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“In those instances” Reddaway, Uncensored Russia, 58.
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The initial items Ibid., 165.
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“All those chosen to represent” Ibid., 116.
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Then she pulled out Gorbanevskaya, Selected Poems, 140.
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Her first successor Hopkins, Russia’s Underground Press, 40.
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“Go through the desk” Ibid., 42–43.
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“sluggish schizophrenia” Sidney Bloch and Peter Reddaway, Psychiatric Terror: How Soviet Psychiatry Is Used to Suppress Dissent (New York: Basic Books, 1977).
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“Does not renounce her actions” Gorbanevskaya, Selected Poems, 108.
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“If my daughter has committed” Ibid., 145.
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“unsound mind” Ibid., 11.
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“I’ll try to say” Ibid., 123.
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“If the patients commit” Bloch and Reddaway, Psychiatric Terror, 12, from Chronicle of Current Events, no. 10.
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“In the madhouse” Gorbanevskaya, Selected Poems, 99.
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“process of justice” Alexeyeva and Goldberg, Thaw Generation, 109.
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In Issue No. 18 Chronicle of Current Events, no. 18 (March 1971), text found on Chronicle of Current Events website: chronicle-of-current-events.com/2015/09/22/18-1-political-prisoners-in-psychiatric-hospitals-a-survey-of-documents/.
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Chapter 6: Control—Washington, 1992
“JIGSAW IS NOT” Tobi Vail, Jigsaw, no. 2 (Feb. 1990). Vail has posted images and transcriptions of early issues of her zine: jigsawscrapbook.blogspot.com/2009/09/jigsaw-2-theres-no-ideas-in-time.html.
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“to kill one another” Paul Tough, “Into the Pit,” The New York Times, Nov. 7, 1993.
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Young women were shoved Don’t Need You: The Herstory of Riot Grrrl, directed by Kerri Koch (Urban Cowgirl Productions, 2005).
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“from the GEEKS” Donna Dresch, Chainsaw, no. 2 (ca. 1990), excerpted in The Riot Grrrl Collection, ed. Lisa Darms (New York: Feminist Press at CUNY, 2014), 23.
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“I am making” Vail, Jigsaw, no. 3.
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“It’s really inspiring” Vail to Neuman, May 9, 1990, printed in Darms, Riot Grrrl Collection, 28–29.
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For Allison Wolfe, interview with author, Feb. 23, 2018.
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Molly was more intense Sara Marcus, Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution (New York: HarperPerennial, 2010), 57.
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As soon as they read Molly Neuman and Allison Wolfe, Girl Germs, no. 3 (ca. 1992), reprinted in full in Darms, Riot Grrrl Collection, 51–93.
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“I felt like we are” Marcus, Girls to the Front, 46.
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She had recently stood The Punk Singer, directed by Sini Anderson (Sundance Selects, 2013).
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“I’m really interested” Mark Andersen and Mark Jenkins, Dance of Days: Two Decades of Punk in the Nation’s Capital (New York: Akashic Books, 2003), 310.
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When a storm hit Marcus, Girls to the Front, 59–60.
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“My brother who is two” Molly Neuman and Allison Wolfe, Girl Germs, no. 1 (Dec. 1990), quoted in Andersen and Jenkins, Dance of Days, 311.
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“I think it’s really good” Marcus, Girls to the Front, 82–83.
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“There has been a proliferation” Riot Grrrl, no. 1 (July 1991), reprinted in Darms, Riot Grrrl Collection, 31.
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“created its audience of girls” Marcus, Girls to the Front, 81.
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“Be as vulnerable” Riot Grrrl, no. 2 (1991), quoted in Marcus, Girls to the Front, 86.
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“Zines are profoundly personal” Stephen Duncombe, Notes from the Underground: Zines and the Politics of Alternative Culture (New York: Verso, 1997), 70.
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“I seriously believe” Marcus, Girls to the Front, 91.
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“Well I’m a riot grrrl” Joanna writing in Fantastic Fanzine, no. 3, in Zan Gibbs Riot Grrrl Collection, MSS.364, box 2, folder 20, New York University.
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“BECAUSE we girls” Erika Reinstein, Fantastic Fanzine, no. 2 (1992), quoted in Kevin Dunn and May Summer Farnsworth, “We ARE the Revolution: Riot Grrrl Press, Empowerment, and DIY Self-Publishing,” Women’s Studies 41 (2012): 141.
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“We are turning cursive letters” Darms, Riot Grrrl Collection, 13.
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“Riot Grrrl is so much” Neuman and Wolfe, Girl Germs, no. 3.
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“I know I’m never gonna be thin” Nomy Lamm, I’m So Fucking Beautiful, no. 2 (1994), reprinted in Darms, Riot Grrrl Collection, 243–61.
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“I think I was one” Ramdasha Bikceem, Gunk, no. 4 (ca. 1993), reprinted in Darms, Riot Grrrl Collection, 158.
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“Girl’s night will always” Molly Neuman and Allison Wolfe, Girl Germs, no. 4 (ca. 1993).
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“punk rock dream” Emily White, “Revolution Girl-Style Now!,” LA Weekly, July 10–16, 1992.
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The resulting article Ibid.
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It was a weekend Dunn and Farnsworth, “We ARE the Revolution,” 139.
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Another was researching Marcus, Girls to the Front, 166.
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“Better watch out” Elizabeth Snead, “Feminist Riot Grrrls Don’t Just Wanna Have Fun,” USA Today, Aug. 7, 1992.
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“Interview magazine called” Kathleen Hanna and Melissa Klein, “Riot Grrrl! Meet the Teen Feminist Movement Storming the States,” Off Our Backs 23, no. 2 (Feb. 1993): 10.
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“I feel like I have so little” Erika Reinstein, Fantastic Fanzine, no. 3 (1993), quoted in Kevin Dunn, Global Punk: Resistance and Rebellion in Everyday Life (New York: Bloomsbury, 2016), 52.
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“One thing I am particularly upset about” Marcus, Girls to the Front, 198–99.
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The article appearing in Spin Dana Nasrallah, “Teenage Riot,” Spin, Nov. 1992.
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Allison and Molly toured Molly Neuman Riot Grrrl Collection, New York University, box 3, folder 10.
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“how something that was once mine” Tobi Vail, Jigsaw, no. 5 (ca. 1993).
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“If you want to start” Marcus, Girls to the Front, 244.
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It was a conversation What Is Riot Grrrl, Anyway?, partly reprinted in Darms, Riot Grrrl Collection, 184.
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“The media has made us” From What Is Riot Grrrl, Anyway?, quoted in Marcus, Girls to the Front, 225.
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“Mean, Mad” Steve Hochman, “Mean, Mad, and Defiantly Underground,” Los Angeles Times, Nov. 8, 1992.
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“Feminist Fury” Linda Keene, “Feminist Fury: ‘Burn Down the Walls That Say You Can’t,’ ” The Seattle Times, March 21, 1993.
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Even Cosmo Louise Bernikow, “The New Activists: Fearless, Funny, Fighting Mad,” Cosmopolitan, April 1993.
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Seventeen magazine Nina Malkin, “It’s a Grrrl Thing,” Seventeen, May 1993.
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The article, of course Marcus, Girls to the Front, 237.
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a distribution service Dunn and Farnsworth, “We ARE the Revolution.”
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In the initial call Marcus, Girls to the Front, 232.
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“We still say if you are” Ibid., 252.
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“Here is a list” Catalog with Hanna’s handwriting reprinted in Darms, Riot Grrrl Collection, 161.
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“to push beyond” Rebecca Walker, “Becoming the Third Wave,” Ms., Jan.–Feb. 1992, 39.
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“We’re freshening up feminism” “Spice and All Things: In Their Own Words,” The Guardian, March 11, 1997, A3.
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Interlude: Cyberspace
“virtual community” Howard Rheingold, The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Virtual Frontier (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1993).
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a minute with Coate Coate, interview with author, Sept. 24, 2019.
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“spanned the worlds” Fred Turner, From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006), 5.
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Brilliant would supply Katie Hafner, The Well: A Story of Love, Death, and Real Life in the Seminal Online Community (New York: Carroll & Graf, 2001), 9–10.
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They were building a new Jim Windolf, “Sex, Drugs, and Soybeans,” Vanity Fair, May 2007.
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PicoSpan, the conferencing software Hafner, Well, 16.
