“my joke is always like, I didn’t just hit the glass ceiling, I pressed my naked breasts up against it,”

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The fashion pendulum may have inevitably swung back to the ’90s, but riot grrrl, with its snarky cut-and-paste zines and carefully built micro-communities, prefigures a lot of youth culture today: targeted communication and social networking (although they did it with letters and flyers, not e-mails and Facebook messages); the lure of the handmade and the local — the craft marketplace Etsy could have been born in a riot grrrl meeting; and an attitude, evident in blogs like Jezebel and the Hairpin, that feminism can be fun. Music, too, has opened up. In the late ’90s, post-riot grrrl and Nirvana, indie rock was decidedly male, with bands like Pavement and Modest Mouse dominating the scene, but now women are on most club bills.

“I remember it being weird if you saw a girl in a band, and now it’s not weird at all, it’s just totally normal,” said Amanda Warner, an electronic musician and producer known as MNDR. Ms. Warner, 32, grew up listening to riot grrrl in rural North Dakota and said it influenced her identity as a performer and a person. “I didn’t put on makeup until I was 30 years old — that wasn’t the focus,” she said. “The focus with all my girlfriends was, like, what bands are we listening to.”