Rock, Rage & Self Defense:
An Oral History of Seattle's Home Alive, 2014

This documentary feature film follows the origin story of Seattle’s grass-roots, self defense collective Home Alive. Prompted by the rape and murder of The Gits’ lead singer Mia Zapata, and other deaths in the Arts and Music community. Scared and infuriated, her friends and community members came together to share theirs fears and discuss how to be safe in that environment. The result was a low-cost self defense program. Understanding the connection between self defense and self-expression, nine women politicized the Seattle scene.

Rock, Rage + Self Defense had multiple tours, screening across the United States, Europe, and Asia. 

The film is available to screen online for free and has English subtitles for the hearing impaired. If you would like to volunteer to translate the film into another language for other subtitles let us know here.