#feminism in music

[moyarb]

It’s not lost on me that when someone talks about how “Beyoncé is overrated” or that she’s “not that talented” I’m supposed to respect other people’s music opinions, but if I say Taylor Swift’s music isn’t my style or I don’t care for her that much it’s like I said the most heinous thing in the world and I don’t support other women.

[intersectionalpraxis]

"idk your feminism isn't sitting well with me when it's only loud about hairy armpits and barbie and not countless women unable to access bare minimum feminine care, no anesthesia during childbirth, shortages in sanitary products, women shelters closing down, Iactating mothers being a higher risk for malnutrition, young girls having no access to education, food or water, and the list worsens" [tiktok video uploaded by a person behind the screen with this caption above while the viral song "labour" by Paris Paloma plays in the background with part of the chorus: "All day, every day, therapist, mother, maid/Nymph then a virgin, nurse then a servant/Just an appendage, live to attend him/So that he never lifts a finger..."

[tedhugheshater]

no hope for women

[tygerland]

Debbie Harry photographed by Trixi Rosen for an article on punk rock attitude, published in After Dark magazine, October 1977.

[grungeprincess2]

Taylor Momsen's iconic outfits (i love all of her outfits)

[longreads]

We Got the Beat

The Go-Go’s burst out of the L.A. punk scene in the late ‘70s to become “the first, and to date only, female band to have a number one album, who not only wrote their own songs but also played their own instruments.” We delighted to bring you an excerpt from Lisa Whittington-Hills new book “The Go-Go’s: Beauty and the Beat.” 

The album cover was the first time I saw what the Go-Go’s looked like. I could finally put faces to my new heroes. In the days before social media, videos, and the internet, it was a lot harder to learn about your new favorite band. MTV would soon change that, but it wouldn’t launch until a month after Beauty and the Beat was released. Years after I first discovered the Go-Go’s, I was packing some records to move and noticed the similarities between the Beauty and the Beat cover and the cover of Cut, the debut album from the Slits. The Slits were naked except for loincloths and covered in mud, not Noxzema, but there was still the idea that both bands wanted to rebel against stereotypical, hypersexualized notions of what women should look like on an album cover. They were both powerful images that the bands chose themselves, which subverted the idea of how women should market their music. There was also the idea that the women wanted to conceal themselves, whether with face masks or mud, to keep a part hidden, especially from a music industry that wanted women to reveal themselves, and all of themselves, if they wanted to sell records.

Read the full excerpt on Longreads.

[artfilmfan]

Sinéad O'Connor in “Nothing Compares” (Kathryn Ferguson, 2022)

[k1tt13s-crypt]

Jack Off Jill Humid Teenage Mediocrity cd glitter gifset !!

[troythecatfish]

[gothgleek]

Rina Sawayama called out Matty Healy at Glastonbury before playing ‘STFU’

“I wrote this because I was sick & tired of these micro-aggressions. This goes out to a white man that watches Ghetto Gaggers & mocks Asian people on a podcast. He also owns my masters. I've had enough.”

[possible-streetwear]

[alelogarza]

[intersectionalpraxis]

Obviously everything related to Palestine rn is one piece of bad news after the other, and while it's important to spread awareness of all the horrific crimes committed against them, we should also be sharing Palestinian joy and culture! This video made me smile so I wanted to share it with you! https://twitter.com/abierkhatib/status/1741821955722944758?t=TXXZHu3HrY5HcAmwbYY-oA&s=19

Yes, of course! ❤️ Posting about and sharing Palestinian resistance and joy is so important. I have shared videos, content, and art as well on my page, which celebrates and showcases Historic Palestine (the ways the western world/media rarely or never displays), and I'll continue to show more. So thank you for sharing this here. This is so beautiful ❤️

Viva Falastin!! 🇵🇸

[hecates-corner]

When I first heard There Are Other Ways, I was a little disappointed by the fact that Circe didn’t successfully seduce Odysseus, considering the huge Greek Mythology nerd I am.

Bear with me.

Then, I played the saga, and that song, for my wonderful mother tonight. About halfway through, I gasped.

The story is accurate to the Homeric version: he confronts her (clandestinely at first), she fights back, he pulls the sword.

But she’s not afraid. Of course she isn’t.

Why would an immortal being, with the rage and power of commanding a million different beasts if her Plan A goes down, be afraid of a measly man with a flimsy toothpick to her throat, just because he ate a flower and said “Be afraid!”?

That’s right! She wouldn’t.

Because Jay didn’t submit to the blatant misogyny of the tale.

Read this article for incredible information, if you please. It changed the way I saw Circe’s story.

If Circe cowered, simply because a man held a sword to her throat, only then would she have seduced him (if we’re going ultra-canon with the storyline, which Jay isn’t), which would have, yet again, thrown off the balance of power.

Circe could give less of a shit about the sword, in the song. She thinks he’s pretty hot, and maybe she’s manipulating him into coming to bed with her so she can trick him, so she offers a tryst or two. Here, if you read the article, she is throwing off the nature of men and women by being the active sexual partner.

He refuses, too enamored with Penelope, and shuns his curiosity in her. You can hear how it pains him, it’s a struggle to say no. But he does. He’s strong, he’s no god, cheating on his wife for the sake of sex appeal. He’s just a man.

He begs. That’s the thing that got me. Not her, him.

“So I beg you, Circe, grant us mercy, and let us puppets leave~”

Then, Circe offers to help him — not because she’s restoring the nature of being submissive — but because she has empathy and compassion for the man. She helps him because he’s proved himself, to be weary, and faithful, and human. She knows the feeling of love.

So, yes. So many layers. Like an onion, worthy of making you cry.

1. Jay is spitting in the face of misogyny and gender roles, and having her help him because she empathizes. Because she’s in power.

2. It’s sort of a jab, if interpreted a certain way, at sexual assault. He says no, and he holds true to it. Even though everything is telling him to give in, to let it happen, he refuses, and remains as sure as he can be.

3. It shows how very human Odysseus is. Athena forgot it, and somehow held him to it. Even the men forget it. But he never does. There is only so much he can do.

This is my favorite saga so far.

[tygerland]

Annie Lennox - September 1983, London - photo by Peter Ashworth.

[grungeprincess2]

Punk outfits ideas