Day 15 (Thur, June 2): Intersectional Punk

For Today:

• Read: Sam Lefebvre, “Martin Sorrondeguy on Los Crudos’ Reissues and Latino Punk History,” Pitchfork, 10 June 2015.
• Read: Santi Elijah Holley, “‘We Still Need to be Seen’: Behind the Rise of Black Punk Culture,” The Guardian, 15 Aug 2019.
• Read: Alex Smith, “Amygdala: A Tradition of Punk Anti-Colonial Resistance,” Bandcamp, 2 Jan 2017.
• Notes: Some brief thoughts on intersectionality.
• Listen: Intersectional Punk playlist embedded below, via Spotify. The first band on the playlist is Pittsburgh’s very own, Killer of Sheep.
• Watch: Afropunk or Beyond The Screams/ Mas Alla de Los Gritos.
• No assignment due tomorrow. Instead, please spend some time today coming up with a theme idea for your mixtape project, due next Monday, and also read through the assignment guidelines. Don’t hesitate to get in touch with Prof Z if you want to chat about it!

For further reading & research:

• Leor Galil, “Chicago Punk Was Born Queer,” Chicago Reader, 23 June 2020.
• “Philadelphia’s Break Free Fest Is A Sanctuary For Punk Diversity,” Kerrang!
• Tony Hawking, “The Forgotten Women of Punk: Shotgun Seamstress’ Osa Atoe on the “Super Tiny” World of Black Punk,” Flavorwire, 17 Jun 2015.
• Watch Michelle Cruz Gonzales, reading from her book The Spitboy Rule: Tales of a Xicana in a Female Punk Band.
• Elizabeth Stinson, “Writing Zines, Playing Music, and Being a Black Punk Feminist: An Interview with Osa Atoe,” Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, Vol. 22, Nos. 2–3 (2012): 261–274.
• Tina Vasquez, “Revisiting the Riot: An Interview with Punk Veteran Mimi Thi Nguyen,” Bitch #59 (2013).
• Video interview with Martin Sorrondeguy, via Queercore.
• Emma May, “New EP ‘Trans Day of Revenge’ is Pure Political Punk,” Bitch, 21 July 2016.
• From the Back of the Room 
• Rise Above: The Tribe 8 Documentary
• Afropunk: The Movie (documentary)
• A fierce review of the book White Riot by veteran writer and former editor of Maximum Rockandroll, Golnar Nikpour.
• ‘We still need to be seen’: behind the rise of black punk culture | Music | The Guardian
• One year of Filipina punk feminism and rebellion | Dazed
• LA Punk Legend Alice Bag Talks to Fetish Photographer Rick Castro | AnotherMan
• No Pity for Boredom: An Interview with Downtown Boys | Shotgun Seamstress zine
• The Hispanic Impact on the Early New York Hardcore Scene, by Freddy Alva | Features | No Echo
• Interview with Golnar Nikpour of MRR
• How Punk Rock Has Always Existed Within Black Culture – Saint Heron
• Alice Bag, “Work that Hoe: Tilling the Soil of Punk Feminism,” Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, Vol. 22, Nos. 2–3 (2012): 233-238.