Vivien Goldman via Pitchfork.com (Web)

„‚Feminism,‘ ‚punk,‘ and ‚feminist punk‘ can have many definitions, culturally and personally. In attempting to capture the spirit and story of this lineage, we had to narrow down these enormous fields. We looked for songs that make their feminist messages clear—not just songs by punks who are feminists, and not songs that were ‚punk‘ or ‚feminist‘ in spirit alone.

In this context, we defined punk as some kind of raw expression, not only an attitude. We looked for rallying cries that have questioned, explored, and destroyed stereotypes, in which the form of the music has mirrored the message. We believe they are classics that cross canons, set precedents, and uphold virtues for the idea of feminism in punk, and the artists who wrote them have moved punk forward. We’ll let a true punk vanguard take it from here …

Party Like a Punkette

It’s punk, not spunk. So loaded towards males is the English language, though, that we may have to reinvent our whole vocabulary. Because some of the best words to describe our female punks are phallocentric: ’spunky,‘ ‚ballsy.‘ Start calling us ‚cunts‘ or ‚pussies,‘ though, and it won’t go down so well. Why is a comparison to …“ … read more (Web).