The Slits: College radio standoff between ‘a coven of witches and a mob of townspeople,’ 1980
Disc jockey: “What do you think about President Reagan.” Slits: “Oh boring.” “Boring.” “Ugh.” “I can’t deal with that.” “He’s full of shit.” The Slits…
Feminism
The controversial (and lampooned) bondage-themed billboard for The Rolling Stones’ ‘Black and Blue’
The magazine version of the controversial advertising campaign for Black and Blue from 1976 In 1976, the Rolling Stones released Black and Blue, their first…
Feminist performance art VS Black Flag, Sabbath, and other culturally masculine institutions
Jen Ray’s paintings of “sparring Amazonian women who inhabit decaying, semi-surrealist and strangely beautiful wastelands” evoke the late ’70s avant-post-psychedelic science fiction worlds one would…
Bring back the feminists of W.I.T.C.H. (Women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell)!
1969 WITCH protest in front of Chicago Federal Building. Of all the second wave feminists who exploded into action over the 1960s and 70s, no…
Lydia Lunch wants to be Louis CK’s ‘friend with benefits’
This was uploaded a couple of months ago, and how I missed it for this long I do not know, but No-Wave high priestess Lydia…
The feminist fireworks of Judy Chicago were loud, bright and very, very vaginal
Chicago’s 2012 fireworks demo, ‘A Butterfly for Pomona.’ Her latest, ‘A Butterfly for Brooklyn,’ was much larger. Judy Chicago is the original feminist artist–in fact…
Attention Doctor Who fans: Watch ‘The Delian Mode’ terrific short documentary on Delia Derbyshire
Canadian director Kara Blake‘s award-winning short documentary The Delian Mode is an audio-visual love letter to pioneering electronic composer Delia Derbyshire, best known for her…
Janis Ian is NOT politically correct and brilliantly defends her ‘Howard Stern’ appearance, 1994
My love of “AM Gold” is well-documented on this blog, and I defend the soft-rock/easy listening genres of the 1970s as an artistic movement of…
Now might be a good time to talk about Gloria Steinem’s time as a CIA asset…
By the way, the other woman in this photo is Dorothy Pitman Hughes, an amazing activist who has received neither the press nor the institutional…
Sexbot, Victim, One of the Girls: Charlotte Church’s talk on music industry misogyny
I don’t know what kind of profile Charlotte Church has in the US any more, if she has any. Five million Americans have bought Church’s…