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TUNE IN to HEAVY GIRLS LOVE HEAVY MUSIC every Friday at noon on WPUNK. On this live broadcast, host DARK KARMA takes listeners on a DIY tour through disco, punk, metal, mosh pits & Black femme rage with guests CHRISTINA LONG, creative director of #BLKGRLSWURLD ZINE, & JASMINE NYENDE, singer for afropunk band FUCK YOU PAY US.

HEAVY GIRLS LOVE HEAVY MUSIC IS POWERED BY THE EROTIC AND

@blkgrlswurld_zine (Christina Long) // NYC Black Girls Moshing to Heavy Metal // @fuckupayus & @standardized_sext (Jasmine Nyende) // REPARATIONS NOW! // @idealblackfemale (Mandy Harris Williams) as Dark Karma // #brownupyourfeed // @msdianaveiga as Disco Demo caller // dianaveiga.com // @candohando as herself // drummer, writer, homosexual, PhD candidate // sponsored by @ravereparations

Christina Long was recorded in Harlem in 2017.

MUSIC: She Can’t Love you by Chemise // Burn Ye Old White Male Patriarchy Burn by Fuck You Pay Us // Board Up by Fuck You Pay Us // Didn’t it Rain by Sister Rosetta Tharpe // Prove It On Me Blues by Gertrude ‘Ma’ Rainey // T'Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do by Bessie Smith // Outrun by Fuck You Pay Us // Nappy Black Pussy by Fuck You Pay Us // Identity by X Ray Spex

REFERENCES

+ The Note Episode 4 | Disco Demolition: Riot to Rebirth

+ “Why Sister Rosetta Tharpe Belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame“ by Anthony Ramirez 

+ “Nineteen Fifty-Five” by Alice Walker (You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories)

+ “America’s Wholesome Square Dancing Tradition Is A Tool of White Supremacy“ by Robyn Pennachia

+ “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic As Power” by Audre Lorde (Sister Outsider)

bitchface is written, recorded, sound designed, hosted + produced by Phoebe Unter & Nicole Kelly. This ep was mixed by Phoebe & mastered by Anna Arboles.

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In a remote location north of the Bay Area we didnt so much escape reality as re-create it. The landscape — the fog, the tall trees, the fields dotted with craters and other land art — was a canvas that we played with projecting onto. For two weeks (the length of our residency) we got to live inside of our own imaginations. (Whose imagination are we living in normally? What are we subtly taught to fear? To worship?) In our utopic visions art and queers and femmes have power. Our utopia is creative and collaborative and fun.

On the sun porch, we listened to BUFU — our interviews with Kat, Jazmine, Tsige, and Sonia last summer — and heard more signs of utopic scheming & also signs of emergence, the theory of political organizing popularized by the writer and activist adrienne maree brown. Actually, it was BUFU who first told us about Emergent Strategy, when we were just starting to make our own forays into collective organizing and programming.

adrienne says imagination is a battle. So whose imagination are you living in?

And whose will win?

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Alllll the things we talk about in this episode:

This Will Take Time: www.thiswilltaketime.org/index.html

BUFU: By Us For Us: www.bufubyusforus.com/mission/

Scamming the Patriarchy: www.newmuseum.org/calendar/view/1111/scamming-the-patriarchy-a-youth-summit

Mountains that Take Wing (Angela Davis & Yuri Kochiyama doc): www.filmsforaction.org/watch/mountains-that-take-wing-angela-davis-and-yuri-kochiyama-trailer/

"It G Ma” x Keith Ape: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPC9erC5WqU

The History Behind Kendrick Lamar's New 'Kung Fu Kenny’ Nickname (Complex): www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXeBfJSDi6Q

Yellow Jackets Collective: http://yellowjacketscollective.com/

Emergent Strategy: www.akpress.org/emergentstrategy.html

adrienne maree brown on transformative media: www.democracynow.org/2008/6/6/adrienne_maree_brown_of_the_ruckus

adrienne maree brown on the imagination battle: www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4nf6PG6pZI&t=519s

How To Survive the End of the World: www.endoftheworldshow.org/

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beats provided by Kitty Crimes: https://soundcloud.com/kittycrimes

outro music is "The Twilight Zone” x The Uhuruverse ft. Jupiter Black: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIw32zNn9As

Snatch Power Collective: snatchpower.com

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Y'all slid into our VMs with all your thoughts & feels about Against the Couple Form. In this episode we answer your lingering questions about friendship and non-monogamy + assess whether our language is non-binary inclusive + STRUGGLE to take the opinions of a white man seriously. Spoiler alert: we fail!

This episode's better version of “Hotline Bling” is by Andean electro pop band INTI WAWA @intiwawamusic.

The Bitchface hotline never shuts down! Call 406-28-BITCH and say whatever you want.

Bitchface is written, recorded, edited & produced by Nicole Kelly & Phoebe Unter. This ep was mixed by Phoebe & mastered by Anna Arboles.

Spring 2017: NK went to a panel at the California African-American Museum in Los Angeles. The dancer Taisha Pagget was in conversation with the curator Erin Christovale, and Taisha told Erin how her ballet training had institutionalized the natural rhythm out of her. Which made NK think about her own experiences in a graduate writing program — how her writing developed a double consciousness, and how she started going to parties in a cheap blonde wig and hot pink lipstick, a costume which she eventually called WHITE DRAG. This is her experience of literary passing.

Original writing by Nicole Kelly. Produced by Elyssa Dudley.

Bitchface is written, hosted, recorded, and produced by Nicole Kelly & Phoebe Unter.

"Make love. Anything can be sex. The body is rich and varied in its parts and sensations. So many ecstasies have yet to be felt. Get away from the genital organisation of ‘sexuality.’"

The rules:

everything is negotiable

domination is care

ask for what you want

get a yes

be honest

This is how we learned to get uncomfortably close. VULNERABILITY is part 3 of a three part series on our search for solidarity and intimacy.

Tate Ashley is a Cuddle Domme based in LA & NYC. Book your sesh on www.cuddledomme.com/

This episode includes excerpts from “Against the Couple Form” by Clemence X. Clementine & Associates from the Infinite Venom Girl Gang [LIES Vol. I], voiced by Mandy Harris Williams.

This season’s theme music compliments of LA native @Linafornia. Mastering by Kora Colasuonno.

Bitchface is written, recorded, hosted + produced by Nicole Kelly & Phoebe Unter.

"Libidinal flows cut through the social world.”

Desire, sensuality, romance, sex — they dont exist in a vacuum, somehow free from the politics that dictate our public lives.

"Desire flows and circulates amongst places of employment, intellectual debates, political organizing, artistic circles, playgrounds, and cemeteries.”

Post-couple form, we began to look elsewhere for connection. In this episode we’re guided by our burning questions: Can touching your friends be sensual, without being sexual? Can friendships be fluid — romantic one day, and not the next? What is the boundary between friendship and romance? Is there a boundary at all?

INTIMACY is part 2 of a three part series on our search for solidarity and intimacy.

This episode includes excerpts from “Against the Couple Form” by Clemence X. Clementine & Associates from the Infinite Venom Girl Gang [LIES Vol. I], voiced by Mandy Harris Williams. Music compliments of LINAFORNIA (@linafornia) and Chioma the Audio Artist (@chiomaaudioart) Mastering by Kora Colasuonno (@please_go_vegan)

Tate Ashley is a writer, artist and intimacy coach. Based in New York. Find out more about their work here: https://www.cuddledomme.com/

Bitchface is written, recorded, hosted + produced by Nicole Kelly & Phoebe Unter.

Against the Couple Form # 1: LOVE

"The couple functions as the threshold, the admission fee, the golden key that allows a woman to participate in the social world. The couple grants a woman personhood and social visibility. She obtains a title, a temporality, a space through the couple. Marriage enshrines this logic…”

In this episode, fluid friends Taylor & Alys explain why their most important relationship is the one they have with each other. LOVE is part 1 of a three part series on our search for solidarity and intimacy.

This episode includes excerpts from “Against the Couple Form” by Clemence X. Clementine & Associates from the Infinite Venom Girl Gang [LIES Vol. I], voiced by Mandy Harris Williams. Music compliments of LA native Linafornia. Production assist by Kora Colasuonno. 

Taylor Yates is the editor-in-chief of Selfish. Alys Velazquez is a poet & photographer.

Bitchface is written, recorded, hosted + produced by Nicole Kelly & Phoebe Unter.

In this low key, lo fi studio ep, we listen to highlights from the bitchface archive's first year of existence, revisit Shulamith Firestone and Kimberlé Crenshaw, and talk about some listener mail.

Feat. music by LOCKER ROOM TALK and ONCE NINA

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MALE FANTASIES, MALE FANTASIES is everything run by male fantasies? If you believe Margaret Atwood the male gaze is inescapable. If a man isn’t looking at you (but tbh when is he not?) then you are your own voyeur, always seeing yourself as male culture (“entertainment”) has taught you to -- whether you know it or not.

“Protagonism is propaganda that protects and perpetuates privilege,” Jill Soloway announced at TIFF this fall. Gina Young put it another way: “The people with all the power control the stories that get told.” And the stories they’re telling are often narratives that reduce women to objects and false dichotomies, narratives that are designed to teach us how to behave, how to be in service of a male agenda, how to be.

This episode is about taking control of the ways we’re seen -- the ways we’re looked at, in what context, on whose terms, and for what purposes. This episode is about two women and two ideas in conversation: What would media look like if we told our own stories? And how could those stories give us permission to really be ourselves? THE FEMALE GAZE is how we see the world, ourselves, & each other.

In this episode WE DISSECT DIRECTOR JILL SOLOWAY’S MASTER CLASS: Jill Soloway perfectly articulates our rage, suggestions for what cis-males should do in the feminist utopia, and why Zack Morris is the epitome of white dude fragility.

WE VISIT GINA YOUNG’S FEMINIST ACTING CLASS: The tragedies of Hollywood typecasting, queer casting calls and feminist sororities, and how to maintain your sanity when your body is a commodity.

This episode features music by DEATH VALLEY GIRLS and INTI WAWA.

Hosting by NICOLE KELLY & PHOEBE ÜNTER. Produced by Phoebe and mastered by audiobruja ELYSSA DUDLEY.

1. Send this to a friend who fucks the patriarchy.

2. CALL 406-28-BITCH & say whatever you want.

"A man on the road is solitary," the writer Vanessa Veselka said. "A woman on the road is just alone." Veselka thumbed rides for three years as a teenager & never once saw another girl hitching. We've got wanderlust too, and we don't need company. But like Veselka, we could think of a lot of stories about men on the road alone and not so many tales about women traveling solo. (If there's one thing this patriarchal society hates, it's a woman with agency doing whatever the F she wants.) So we hitchhiked to Vegas in protest of that tradition. WE OUT HERE.

Produced by Elyssa Dudley.