grrl

English

Noun

grrl (plural grrls or grrlz)

1. Alternative form of grrrl
   • 1997, Riki Anne Wilchins, Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender, Ithaca, N.Y.: Firebrand Books, →ISBN, page 188:

     You end up being a projection screen for everyone’s unfinished business: butches excluded because they were “too male identified”; women body-builders and transmen who started testosterone because they made the space unsafe with their “male energy”; leatherdykes because they were into “violence against women” and that made the vanilla grrlz “feel threatened”; lesbos because the straight women were sure they’d get jumped, and on and on and on.

   • 2002, Colin Fletcher, Chip Rawlins, The Complete Walker IV, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, pages 25–26:

     A rough-and-tumble newsprint equivalent is Wilds Woman (subtitled “Women Getting Wild Outside”) that also rounds up reviews of gear, rock groups, and “grrlz on film.”

   • 2018, Jessica Nydia Pabón-Colón, Graffiti Grrlz: Performing Feminism in the Hip Hop Diaspora, New York, N.Y.: New York University Press, →ISBN, page 24:

     Graffiti Women was the first book specifically about graffiti grrlz and street artists; Ganz himself noted how despite incremental improvement the inclusion of grrlz in graffiti art publications remained sparse.