Riot grrrls also wanted self-definition through the written word and promoted a female-centered version of punk's DIY politics.

The pucks don’t bounce, the trains don’t spring, my cume is gonna fall, And unless I pass that final quiz I’ll be screwed right to the wall.

Scholars refer to those people who “fit neatly” into these male/female exclusive categorizations as endosex. Endosex people are assigned male or female, and often think very little about this assignment—or the possibility that it was incorrect in any biologically empirical way—throughout their lives unless something unexpected forces them to consider it.

On the Palingenesia, or New-birth of Society; which volume, as treating practically of the Wear, Destruction, and Retexture of Spiritual Tissues, or Garments, forms, properly speaking, the Transcendental or ultimate Portion of this my work on Clothes, and is already in a state of forwardness.