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John P. Murphy Postdoctoral Fellow, Case Western Reserve Univ. Author, What Are You Doing Here? (Bazillion Points). Ethnomusicologist / Heavy Metal journalist
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How Sista Grrrl Riot Made Room for Black Queers in Punk

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By Laina Dawes, Emma Schartz
| Interview Magazine Verified
“Black Punk Now,” edited by Chris L. Terry and James Spooner, takes a wide-ranging look at the underground history of Black punk music through interviews, fiction, illustrations, archival photos, and comic strips. The following excerpt tells the story of New York City’s Sista Grrrl Riot, an early, vital Afro-Punk movement. “Black Punk Now” will be published by Soft Skull Press on Oct. 31.
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The Wire Issue 476

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By Laina Dawes, Emily Pothast, Richard Thomas, Esi Eshun
| The Wire Verified
October 2023 Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 476. Inside our brand new issue: L’Rain: Taja Cheek’s fluid songforms are a kaleidoscopic and personal response to the modern world. By Laina Dawes Blevin Blectum: Blectum From Blechdom’s Bevin Kelley builds brave new worlds from mind-melding sound. By Emily Pothast Trevor Mathison: The Black Audio Film Collective’s sound man rewrites the story of industrial music.
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‘Starting a Riot’ episode 5: Aerating the soil

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By Julie Sabatier, Laina Dawes
| Oregon Public Broadcasting Verified
Your browser does not support the audio element. BIPOC and queer fans and musicians didn’t always feel welcomed by riot grrrl. But some managed to claim space in the movement anyway. We dig into what it was like for people who were “aerating the soil” of punk for the next generation, and why some efforts to make riot grrrl more inclusive failed.
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