Who runs the world? Well, fat white capitalists, of course! But women of all shapes and kinds are awesome and today Diz and Al discuss the "girls" who run the punk rock world. Join us for a conversation on women throughout punk rock history.

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Information

Trans Women in Punk

Hellcat Records

The Day the Country Died Documentary

Sledgehammer Incident

The Tampon Incident

Legacy of Women in Punk by Decade

1970s

Jayne County, Patti Smith, Joan Jett, The Runaways, The Slits, Crass (Penny Rinbaud), Siouxie and the Banshees, Vivienne Westwood and punk fashion

1980s

[UK Anarcho Years, Zounds, …Pink Indians?] Vice Squad, X-Ray Spex, The Plasmatics, Blondie (Debbie Harry), Lunachicks, Hole, bondage fashion

1990s

Bikini Kill, The Distillers, F-Minor, L7, Seven Year Bitch, Bratmobile, Nausea, Antischism, The Gits, Tilt, agenda-driven content, Shonen Knife, Riot Grrrl, Queercore

2000s

Brodie Dalle (or Armstrong), White Lung, Shawna Potter, Horrorpops, Avril Lavigne as punk fashion (not punk music), Against Me! (Laura Jane Grace), Tiger Army, TsuShiMaMire

2010s to today

G.L.O.S.S. (Sadie Switchblade Smith), Bad Cop Bad Cop, War on Women, Lunachicks (return from haitus), The Bombpops, She/Her/Hers (Emma Grrl), Bridge City Sinners, Mangy, Aye Nako, CU Space Cowboy, Not on Tour

Honorable Notes

Mary Harron, later known as the award-winning director of American Psycho, I Shot Andy Warhol, and The Notorious Bettie Page, started her career writing for Punk magazine after finding that no mainstream publication would hire her.

Roberta Bayley documented the CBGB scene in a series of now-iconic photographs, including the one that graced the cover of the first Ramones album.

Jayne County came out as the first openly transgender musician in 1979; and BDSM leather became the stereotypical punk outfit. The goal was to smash through people’s perceptions of what was typical and allowed.

Bridge City Sessions out of Portland

Band Shoutouts

Antischism “Salvation or Annihilation”

Not On Tour Growing Pains “Therapy”

Shoutouts

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