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It started in my first year of university. I sat everyday in my third wave feminism class and listened to Gobatto lecture about glass ceilings, the public sphere vs the private sphere, riot girl influences and being "not my mother's sister." The information was powerful and enlightening, but useless, for it is just information. Information is useless if it's not acted apon. Well that's the way I saw it anyways. I sat with my then boyfriend at a coffee place one week in January 2007, reading an article on riot girl music. Kathleena Hanna, Bratmobile, Bikini Kill, punk rock in the 70's would have been an incredible experience and then the feeling started. The feeling, I can only describe it as a mixture of discomfort, unsatisfaction and neglect. It was this feeling that sparked an action for change and gave birth to what is known, as the event 'Smash the Glass.' Smash the Glass makes reference to smashing the patriarchal glass that impairs many women's path towards success; the invisible blockade can often result in frustration and discouragement. Smash the Glass is my responce to my feeling towards the Windsor music scene. I found myself questioning every so often, "where da grrls at?' Being so involved in my music scene, whether it was punk, folk or hardcore, it's discomforting to be so under represented gender wise; I want to see and hear more women on the stage. I want to see them taking the mic, the bass guitar and the keys; I want to hear their art come alive.