I studied lyrical singing and classical piano. But in Charlotte, I scream.
Women to the front: female punk movement
In punk, generally who gets involved with this is thinking less about the music, the lyrics ... is a political thing indeed.
Feminist punk began to emerge in the United States... England... at the end of 70's, 77 - 78
it boomed and the empowerment of the female artists was greatly encouraged.
But the story silences us a lot right? After that boom came the fall.
Only the bands of men were reported, only the bands of men entered in the history of punk.
When you talk about punk rock you think about Ramones, Sex Pistols.
Then with the 90's punk that is our Riot Girl, the women appeared again on the front line, let's do it all, and our culture is the do-it-yourself culture,
which is the essence of punk rock and then, it fell again.
From the transition of the decade in the year of 2000 until now has had everything, has had the frontwoman but always objectified, I say so, always were beautiful girls, front woman type produced... the hair... the talent... the voice,
but now we are back to this new moment of DIY, do it yourself, then the girls said:
I do not know how to play but I'm going to play, Ramones did it,
they used their capacity and today with the women, it's everybody like that, in culture, it's everyone like that, what I can do, how I can do it.
In 2017 we are in a boom again and in a very creative one.
The Dominatrix started in 1995 and today we are celebrating 20 years of the first album, Girl Gathering, which was released in 1997
and the difference between the period we started and today, it is difficult to say, I believe that once Margareth Rago, who is a historian, said that there are times that cohabit in the same time,
and I feel the same thing in the experience with the band.
When we started there was some progress on some issues, it was very political and we had information of what happened outside the country through the fanzines and today,
while having access to information we have a setback of issues that people no longer discusses within the independent universe, then feminism is accepted as something already accepted,
in some spheres this is not discussed at all and then it is a challenge for us. There is a difference, because at the time what seemed to have a facility of communication because of a specific politicized scene in which people came,
today we have other challenges within a discourse that seems accessible but not always it is put into practice.
I think it's a constant fight, right?
I think while finally, while so many women die every day, while so many women are raped every day, while so many people are killed by homophobia every day, we still have not won, this war.
But I think our job is to fight, to fight to end it in all the ways we have, with the tools that we have at hand, whether it's setting up a band or through other types of art,
I think we have to use what we have around us. I think punk allows that a lot, right?
The "Festival Distúrbio Feminino" (Women's Disturbance Festival) appeared naturally from a need to think that...oh no!
I must do something else and there was the first festival in 2015, it was very cool, it was on the street in a square in São Paulo, four bands performed,
and in the following year (which was last year)it happened again and this year came even bigger... it was a big surprise too.
I think the feminist punk attitude today is not to expect that this process of assimilation that is happening nowadays with the corporations when they use the feminism to sell things, the feminist punk means that you should not get into that process,
and to some extent to reaffirm our tool and our do-it-yourself methodology and do not let our essence and our culture be lost in the process of selling our ideals.
Today is odd to think about it, isn't it? Because punk has always been very nihilistic, it came about because people were very unhappy with the system, punk was always very critical,
so there's the "No future", but I think nowadays we should not use the "No future" of that punk movement, because punk is very transformative, punk incites people to be themselves,
to use their capacity, to believe in themselves, that it is something that the system cuts off from us, it is always said that we are not capable, that we need to do more, or that this will not work ...
Nowadays we are living in a reactionary wave in the country and the world, right?
We are seeing a few rights that we have already conquered receding and for this reason that we can not give up, that we have to keep fighting that we have to organize, that we have to grow together,
and that we have to go out in the streets, go on stage, and occupy the spaces. We have to occupy spaces in music, we have to occupy space in politics.
I hope so, I see it for today's girls, for today's bands, for the feminist punk movement today, that our future is here and now and for us to believe in it,
we are building it, I am sure that everything that we are doing today will resonate in 10 years, this is also history, I'm sure we all have enough future working with it and giving voice to ourselves and strengthening.
So I think punk status today can change and say: "Yes Future"!
When we move, the things around us get reallocated and in this reallocation is never untroubled, we face a lot of resistance:
in punk, in music, in everyday life, nothing that we are not used to.
But I think precisely because it is this terrible moment we are living through that we must shout even louder.
Taking some of that anger that we supress during the week and enjoy releasing it during the show.
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