Comments on: Rock n' Roll Camp for Girls: Role Models, Riot Grrrls and Revolutions

By: Maeve

Maeve — Sun, 06 May 2012 19:48:21 +0000

Oh Jess, I think you should be a little bit more sensitive about this since you know I basically got dumped for preferring Oz to Tara less than a week ago!

By: Delia Jellybean

Delia Jellybean — Sat, 05 May 2012 19:52:00 +0000

I taught at the Rock and Roll Camp for Girls in the mid 2000′s. It was one of the most amazing experiences of my life. I was so geeked when they accepted me to teach. I flew myself out to Portland and stayed with people I meet through Lesbian Connection. Is that still around? I think I used to get it quarterly in the mail. Anyway, I remember meeting my riot grrrl idols and teaching side by side with them. The kids were terrific and talented and full of life. I met some wonderful friends and cherish my summer there.

By: chloe

chloe — Fri, 04 May 2012 21:55:06 +0000

P.S. This was beautiful.

P.P.S. I think I finally get why you hate on Portlandia so much. <3

By: chloe

chloe — Fri, 04 May 2012 21:51:36 +0000

Dear Maeve,

I’m sorry, but I think it’s time to take down the Oz poster.

<3
jess

By: Ann

Ann — Fri, 04 May 2012 19:30:30 +0000

i was like, ‘morgan has to comment on this article, she loves rock camp!’ and here you are

rock camp sounds so rad!

By: Ava

Ava — Fri, 04 May 2012 18:41:37 +0000

Ah, they have one of these in NYC! *starts saving $ for next year*

By: milo

milo — Fri, 04 May 2012 17:33:59 +0000

yay! also, rock camp for kids/people who are super queer but may or may not currently ID as a girl. http://www.queerrockcamp.org/

By: Nora Isabella

Nora Isabella — Fri, 04 May 2012 15:16:52 +0000

Great article! Got me all emotional! I wanted to go to this camp so bad in high school, but at the time there wasn’t one near where I lived. I settled for maintaining my all-girl punk band in a sea of unwelcoming all-boy classic rock cover bands. That was great enough but I still think if I had gone to camp, I’d be a more advanced, more confident musician than I am now.

By: Hannah

Hannah — Fri, 04 May 2012 05:49:26 +0000

A lot of women at my school are involved with Rock Camp, and have been talking about it in my gender studies class, and there was even recently a benefit concert at my school for it. I have been sooo jealous. I would have so preferred Rock Camp to Christian camp, it would have helped me tons. I also love Portland (which is why I live here now) and would have also preferred to go to camp in Portland than in the woods somewhere near Olympia WA.

By: Ami

Ami — Fri, 04 May 2012 04:08:49 +0000

This is such an awesome and positive and inspiring story, thank you for telling it to us!!
I went to (sleep away camp) in the Canadian Rocky Mountains for 2 weeks every summer from ages 10-17, and then I went back as a camp counseller for a few years too. I honestly believe that camp shaped me more than any other experience in my life thus far.

By: Kelsey

Kelsey — Fri, 04 May 2012 02:50:46 +0000

I hope that I’m not the only one who noticed the Powerpuff Girls T-shirt in the first pic. I use to love buttercup!

By: Laneia

Laneia — Fri, 04 May 2012 01:52:02 +0000

i love this piece so much! when i watched ‘girls rock’ for the first time, i almost died of excitement and inspiration. so so brilliant.