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Dirty Girls: The cult 90s documentary that made being dirty feel radical

Dazed & Confused Magazine | Fashion, Art, Music, Film, Ideas | … May 27, 2026
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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. Filmed in 1996,hellip; read more raquo;

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