Time for goodbye

The Face Cover 1993

In conclusion, Kurt Cobain felt strongly about sexism, homophobia, and hegemonic masculinity and used is fame to speak out against hate. We should most importantly remember what he said in interviews because that’s when he let his guard down to speak. Additionally, his more subtle actions of cross dressing even revealed the oppression of women’s formalwear. Cobain’s recurring female-victims in his music are a reflection of himself being the victim of very masculine peers compared to the strength of women who are in much worse situations. Cobain’s music came out during a flourish of feminist punk rock also known as the Riot Grrrl movement in the midst of the ongoing third wave of feminism. Since Cobain’s time gay rights have spread-- a few states allowing domestic partnership and civil unions, but advocacy against homophobia is still very necessary.  Young suicides gain attention in the media of kids who are bullied to death, and Cobain’s is a story that is nothing new. In some ways it’s lucky that someone who lived through that as a gay person grew up to act against hate, while in other ways he ended up like the other bullied victims when he took his own life at the age of twenty-seven.
 

Recent photo of Cobain as a fashion statement