Pictured on the cover of the The Riot Grrrl Collection, the book I’ve been reading recently, is a filing cabinet covered in stickers. It took me a few days to realise that my new book, Ninety9, has a similar, sticker-covered object on it, a suitcase. Things covered in stickers are a good aesthetic shorthand for underground culture in the 1990s and the ephemera and objects through which that time is remembered.

The book is comprised of reproductions of items from The Riot Grrrl Collection, held at NYU’s Fales Library: zines, flyers, song lyrics and printed ephemera. The collection was started by the book’s author, Lisa Darms, to document the evolution of the punk feminist Riot Grrrl movement between 1989 and 1996. While the movement was somewhat dispersed, Riot Grrrl is mostly associated with Olympia, Washington, and bands such as Bikini Kill and Bratmobile.