Women in punk rock

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Musicologist Caroline Polk O'Meara has written that female experience, feminism and taking a pro-woman stance empowered women's participation in punk rock beginning in the 1970s.{{cite journal |last1=O'Meara |first1=Caroline |title=The Raincoats: breaking down punk rock's masculinities |journal=Popular Music |publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge, England|date=2003 |volume=22 |issue=3 |pages=299–313 |doi= 10.1017/s0261143003003209|jstor=i371782 |s2cid=190699398 }} In rock music, there has been a gendered "distinction between public (male) and private (female) participation" in music.{{cite journal|first1=Julian|last1=Schaap|first2=Pauwke|last2=Berkers|title=Grunting Alone? Online Gender Inequality in Extreme Metal Music|journal=IASPM Journal|publisher=International Association for the Study of Popular Music |location=Liverpool, England|volume=4|issue=1|date=February 2014|page=102|doi=10.5429/2079-3871(2014)v4i1.8en|doi-access=free|hdl=1765/51580|hdl-access=free}} "[S]everal scholars have argued that men exclude women from bands or from the bands' rehearsals, recordings, performances, and other social activities."Schaap & Berkers (2014) p. 104 "Women are mainly regarded as passive and private consumers of allegedly slick, prefabricated – hence, inferior – pop music..., excluding them from participating as high status rock musicians." One of the reasons that mixed gender bands were traditionally rare was that "bands operate as tight-knit units in which homosocial solidarity – social bonds between people of the same sex... – plays a crucial role." In the 1960s pop music scene, "[s]inging was sometimes an acceptable pastime for a girl, but playing an instrument...simply wasn't done."{{cite web|first=Erika|last=White |url=http://www.rebeatmag.com/music-history-primer-3-pioneering-female-songwriters-of-the-60s/ |title=Music History Primer: 3 Pioneering Female Songwriters of the '60s|magazine=REBEAT Magazine|date=2 January 2015|access-date=20 January 2016}}

In the UK, the Sex Discrimination Act of 1975 allowed women the same access to jobs as men. Some men thought that this legislation put them at a loss and felt that women were taking away positions that traditionally belonged to them. This, and the election of Margaret Thatcher, led many young women who felt disenfranchised to the punk rock music scene. Artists like Suzi Quatro are considered to be major influences in the early British punk culture. Quatro refused to be sexualized by the media and indirectly dealt with the issue of sexism by embracing a tough, rocker persona while producing music that could thrive in the mainstream. Bands like X-Ray Spex and The Slits took this feminist rock culture and combined it with a more extreme, aggressive style of music. This genre reflected on social, cultural and political changes of the United Kingdom at the time, and continued to do so in other locations.

In the US, women such as Exene Cervenka and Joan Jett made contributions to the Los Angeles punk scene in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Cervenka's aggressive style and her unconventional looks drew more young women to the scene since it was inclusive.{{cite journal|first=Shannon|last=Becker|date=Spring 2012|url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00497878.2012.636326|title=Editor's Note: "The World's a Mess It's in My Kiss": Punk Women and Why They Matter|journal=Women's Studies|volume=41 |publisher=Routledge|location=Abingdon, England|issue=2|pages=117–120|doi=10.1080/00497878.2012.636326 |s2cid=147645218 |via=EBSCO Academic Search Complete|url-access=subscription}} Many of these women sought to fight public sexual harassment and encourage body positive attitudes through their music. Leather jackets, short skirts, fishnets and choker necklaces were part of the punk style and culture, and this style made many punk women targets for sexual harassment in the streets. They often spent much time outside waiting for shows, smoking, and meeting with one another, which created a kind of vulnerability. Women punk musicians retaliated by educating the young girls involved in the scene, taking legal action, and writing songs on the matter. While punk in New York City and San Francisco emerged in the 1970s, the Los Angeles scene was at its strongest point in the 1980s, as a response to the conservative policies of Ronald Reagan's administration. Mainstream rock such as Christopher Cross or Hall and Oates did not tend to address political issues, which left a space for rebels like Joan Jett and Blondie within the charts.

The feminist ideologies of punk rock in the 1970s and 1980s{{cite book|first=Lauraine |last=Leblanc|date=1999|title=Pretty in Punk: Girl's Gender Resistance in a Boy's Subculture|publisher=Rutgers University Press|location=Chicago, Illinois|isbn=0813526515}} persevered into the 1990s via the Riot grrrl movement in the Olympia, Washington area. Riot Grrrl addressed more than the sexism of punk culture alone. Rather, the movement applied feminism on a broader scale by taking on issues such as sexual assault, systematic sexism, and the idea that sex is taboo for women. Riot Grrrl began by primarily using homemade magazines, known as zines, and group meetings. Eventually, the movement developed into a genre of music that was more aggressive than the mainstream rock of the decade. This genre reflected the same values as the zines. It was within this era that the LGBT community began to use punk rock as an outlet for advocacy as well. Groups from the early 21st century such as Pussy Riot and Panty Raiders combine feminist and queer values in their music and films.

The constant push for gender equality over three decades has resulted in a more inclusive punk rock culture that is no longer divided by sex. No Doubt is one example of this accepting culture. They are a co-ed musical group with a female singer who addresses feminist issues. One of No Doubt's songs, "Just a Girl", made it to the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 23 back in 1995. Sleater-Kinney and Le Tigre are groups known to mix feminist ideologies with other social justice themes. Following George W. Bush's administration's response to the September 11 attacks and Hurricane Katrina, these female-led groups offered political criticism through politicized songs. Sleater-Kinney's song, "Combat Rock," was anti-war in nature and directly criticized the U.S. government's decisions regarding the Middle East.

"The rebellion of rock music was largely a male rebellion; the women—often, in the 1950s and '60s, girls in their teens—in rock usually sang songs as personæ utterly dependent on their macho boyfriends...".{{Cite journal |last=Oglesbee |first=Frank W. |date=June 1999 |title=Suzi Quatro: A prototype in the archsheology of rock |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03007769908591731 |journal=Popular Music and Society |volume=23 |issue=2 |pages=29–39 |doi=10.1080/03007769908591731 |issn=0300-7766|url-access=subscription }} Philip Auslander says that "Although there were many women in rock by the late 1960s, most performed only as singers, a traditionally feminine position in popular music". Though some women played instruments in American all-female garage rock bands, none of these bands achieved more than regional success. So they "did not provide viable templates for women's on-going participation in rock".{{cite journal

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}}{{rp|2–3}} In relation to the gender composition of heavy metal bands, it has been said that "[h]eavy metal performers are almost exclusively male"{{cite book |last=Brake |first=Mike |editor1-last=Frith |editor1-first=Simon |editor2-last=Goodwin |editor2-first=Andrew |title=On Record: Rock, Pop and the Written Word |url=https://archive.org/details/onrecordrockpopw00frit_710 |url-access=limited |publisher=Routledge |location=Abingdon, England|date=1990 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/onrecordrockpopw00frit_710/page/n101 87]–91 |chapter=Heavy Metal Culture, Masculinity and Iconography }} "...[a]t least until the mid-1980s"{{cite book |last=Walser |first=Robert |date=1993 |title=Running with the Devil: Power, Gender and Madness in Heavy Metal Music |publisher=Wesleyan University Press |location=Middletown, Connecticut|isbn=978-0819562609|page=76 }} apart from "...exceptions such as Girlschool." However, "...now [in the 2010s] maybe more than ever–strong metal women have put up their dukes and got down to it",{{cite journal |last=Eddy |first=Chuck |date=1 July 2011 |title=Women of Metal |journal=Spin |publisher=SpinMedia Group|location=Los Angeles, California}} "carv[ing] out a considerable place for [them]selves."{{cite journal |last=Kelly |first=Kim |date=17 January 2013 |title=Queens of noise: heavy metal encourages heavy-hitting women |journal=The Daily Telegraph}}

When Suzi Quatro emerged in 1973, "no other prominent female musician worked in rock simultaneously as a singer, instrumentalist, songwriter, and bandleader".{{rp|2}} According to Auslander, she was "kicking down the male door in rock and roll and proving that a female musician ... and this is a point I am extremely concerned about ... could play as well if not better than the boys".{{rp|3}}

{{Main|Rock Against Sexism}}

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Rock Against Sexism (RAS) was a political and cultural movement dedicated to promoting women in music,{{Cite web|date=24 March 2021|title=Blast From the Past: The Petticoats|url=http://maximumrocknroll.com/blast-from-the-past-the-petticoats/ |access-date=10 March 2021|website=Maximumrocknroll|language=en-US}} and challenging sexism and heterosexism in the rock music community, pop culture and in the world at large.{{Cite web|date=24 March 2021|title=Rock Against Sexism at the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America - Musicians|url=https://guides.library.harvard.edu/schlesinger_musicians |access-date=10 March 2021|publisher=Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University|language=en-US}} It was primarily a part of the punk rock music and arts scene.{{Cite web|date=24 March 2021|title=Rock Against Sexism Records at the Feminist Movements collections, 1880s to the Present, at the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture in the Rubenstein Library|url=https://guides.library.duke.edu/feminism/third-wave |access-date=10 March 2021|website=Third Wave Archival Collections - Duke University Libraries|language=en-US}} RAS began in the UK in 1978, and by the mid-1980s also had a presence in North America. It was inspired and influenced by Rock Against Racism; the two movements had many of the same participants.{{Cite web|date=24 March 2021|title=Mary Quaile Club presents Rock Against Sexism: I was there|url=https://salfordstar.com/article.asp?id=5285 |access-date=10 March 2021|website=Salford Star|language=en-US}}{{Cite book|last=Renton |first=David |year=2018 |title=Never Again - Rock Against Racism and the Anti-Nazi League 1976-1982 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |location=Oxfordshire, England|isbn=9781351383905 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4GN8DwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Rock+Against+Sexism%22&pg=PT232}}{{cite book|last=Bangs |first=Lester |author-link=Lester Bangs |date=1988 |editor-last= Marcus |editor-first= Greil |editor-link=Greil Marcus| title=Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock 'n' Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'n' Roll|publisher=Anchor Press |location=Norwalk, Massachusetts|page= 282|isbn=0-679-72045-6}} Note: Original essay that mentions RAR and RAS is from April, 1979. RAS has been cited as a prototype for, and influence on, the later Riot grrrl movement, "giving women more access to punk subculture."

The Mexico City-based punk rock collective, Hijas de Violencia (the Daughters of Violence) conduct street performances to combat sexual harassment against women.{{cite web|last1=De La Torre|first1=Anna Paula|title=Las hijas de Violencia: con punk y performance combaten el acoso callejero en México|url=http://pijamasurf.com/2014/09/conoce-a-las-hijas-de-la-violencia-con-punk-y-performance-combaten-el-acoso-callejero-en-mexico/|website=pijamasurf.com|publisher=PijamaSurf|access-date=28 January 2016}} A precursor was Chavas Activas Punks (CHAP)'s, a women's collective that formed in the Mexico City pun community in 1987. The anthropologist, Maritza Urteaga Castro-Prozo writes of their protests against the "hostility and rejection they experienced from male counterparts". She goes on to write that while they had "little acquaintance with feminist theory", their lyrics and fanzine focused on gender discrimination and sexuality.{{cite book |last1=Marciniak |first1=Marta |title=Transnational Punk Communities in Poland: From Nihilism to Nothing Outside Punk |date=2015 |publisher=Lexington Books |location=Lanham, Maryland|isbn=9781498501583 |pages=168–169 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WzYmCgAAQBAJ&q=women+who+predated+punk+movement&pg=PR26 |access-date=9 December 2019}}

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Pussy Riot's lyrical themes include feminism, LGBT rights, and government opposition. The collective considers Russian President Vladimir Putin to be a dictator, and opposes his policies.{{cite news |title=Pussy Riot: will Vladimir Putin regret taking on Russia's cool women punks? |first=Carole|last=Cadwalladr |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jul/29/pussy-riot-protest-vladimir-putin-russia |newspaper=The Observer |date=29 July 2012 |access-date=20 November 2012}}{{cite news |title=Putin's message: if you're pro Pussy Riot you're against the Orthodox church |first=Oleg|last=Kashin |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/aug/17/pussy-riot-putin-message |work=The Guardian |date=17 August 2012 |access-date=10 November 2012 |archive-date=18 September 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120918231835/http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/17/pussy-riot-putin-message |url-status=live}}

Some women in punk rock have used their music and lyrics as platforms for feminist ideologies, and to oppose the sexualization of female musicians and societal policing of women's bodies and sexual agency. As early as the 1960s, women in rock were often considered as sex objects and their capabilities and talent were often undermined while male producers were credited for their music.{{cite journal|first=Rebecca|last=Daugherty|title=The spirit of '77: Punk and the girl revolution|journal=Women & Music – A Journal of Gender and Culture|publisher=University of Nebraska Press|location=Lincoln, Nebraska|volume=6|pages=27–35}} Some female punk and Riot grrrl lyrics called for women to challenge the patriarchy and rape culture, such as 7 Year Bitch's song "Dead Men Don't Rape". Bikini Kill expressed the need for a revolution in pursuit of disrupting the patriarchy, for example their song, "Rebel Girl".{{cite news|first1=Evelyn|last1=McDonnell|first2=Elizabeth|last2=Vincentelli|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/05/03/arts/music/riot-grrrl-playlist.html|title=Riot Grrrl United Feminism and Punk. Here's an Essential Listening Guide.|newspaper=The New York Times|date=6 May 2019|access-date=19 April 2022}} Some musicians lyrics expressed themes of queer liberation, as in Gossip's "Where the Girls Are". Conventional expectations of women's roles were challenged, for example, in The Slits' "Typical Girls", that sarcastically addressed stereotypes of women as being "too emotional".{{cite journal | last1 = Nguyen | first1 = Mimi Thi | date = July–November 2012 | title = Making waves: Other punk feminisms | journal = Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory | publisher=Taylor & Francis| location=Oxfordshire, England| volume = 22 | issue = 2–3| pages = 355–359 | doi = 10.1080/0740770X.2012.720895 | s2cid = 194103788 }} Riot grrrl artists and their punk predecessors not only fought for women, but for the LGBTQIA+ community, animal rights, and human rights in general. Punk, as non-normative as it has traditionally been, has (in some cases) become a safe haven for many unaccepted individuals, including queer people. Punks and the punk lifestyle are often outside of the realm of normative culture, and the same can be said for queer individuals.{{cite journal | last1 = Sharp | first1 = Megan | last2 = Nilan | first2 = Pam | date = 29 June 2017 | title = Floorgasm: Queer(s), solidarity and resilience in punk | journal = Emotion, Space and Society | publisher=Elsevier|location=Stockholm, Sweden|volume = 25 | pages = 71–78 | doi = 10.1016/j.emospa.2017.06.005}} The discomfort in this outcast identity may bring feelings of solidarity for people in punk scenes, queer and otherwise.

{{Main|Punk fashion}}

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Vivienne Westwood was a designer associated with early UK punk fashion in the 1970s who made clothes for Malcolm McLaren's boutique in the King's Road, which became famous as "SEX". Other designers included Wendy Gawitz and Kate Buck of "Eccentric Clothing" in Collingwood; Melbourne, Australia designers Julie Purvis and Jillian Burt, and fellow Australians Kate Durham and Sara Thorn.{{cite web|url=http://www.punkjourney.com/fashion.php|title=Punk a Photographic Journey The History of the Melbourne Punk Scene|website=www.punkjourney.com}}

Pamela Rooke, also known as Jordan Mooney or simply Jordan, worked as a model for Vivienne Westwood's Sex boutique to create an iconic image of punk fashion "style" during the 1970s.{{cite web |last1=Baron |first1=Katie |title=A rare interview with Jordan, punk's enigmatic frontwoman |url=https://www.dazeddigital.com/fashion/article/32470/1/a-rare-interview-with-jordan-punk-s-enigmatic-frontwoman |website=Dazed |access-date=4 April 2022}} She later went on to manage the band Adam and the Ants; she was also the bass player for the band.{{cite news |last1=Fury |first1=Alexander |title=Fury's Fashion People: The Sartorial Genius of Jordan (No, Not That One) |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/fury-s-fashion-people-the-sartorial-genius-of-jordan-no-not-that-one-8967842.html |access-date=4 April 2022 |newspaper=The Independent |date=30 November 2013}}

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Women in the hardcore punk scene typically wore army pants, band T-shirts, and hooded sweatshirts.{{cite thesis|first=Siri C.|last=Brockmeier|title='Not Just Boys' Fun?' The Gendered Experience of American Hardcore|publisher=University of Oslo|location=Oslo, Norway|url=https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/26264/BrockmeierxDUO.pdf?sequence=1|date=May 2009|access-date=4 January 2016}} The style of the 1980s hardcore scene contrasted with the more provocative fashion styles of late 1970s punk rockers (elaborate hairdos, torn clothes, patches, safety pins, studs, spikes, etc.).

In 2013 the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York organized the historical exhibition, PUNK: Chaos to Couture, featuring clothing worn and/or fabricated by punk musicians, as well as designers such as Vivenne Westwood, Rodarte, Ann Demeulemeester, Katharine Hamnett and others.{{cite news |last1=Ryzik |first1=Melena |title=Haute Punk |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/arts/design/punk-chaos-to-couture-at-the-mets-costume-institute.html |access-date=30 December 2018 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=25 April 2013}} A comprehensive exhibition catalog, designed by Pentagram was produced by the museum, and distributed by Yale University Press.{{cite book |editor-last1=Bell |editor-first1=Eugenia |title=PUNK: Chaos to Couture |date=2013 |publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art |location=New York City |isbn=978-1-58839-489-7 |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2013/punk |access-date=30 December 2018}}

{{Main|Punk visual art}}

Linder Sterling, commonly known as Linder, was the former front-woman of the post-punk band, Ludus. She is primarily known for her radical feminist visual artwork, photographs, photomontages, and cover art for the band the Buzzcocks.{{cite book |editor1-last= Wright|editor1-first= Karen|editor2-last= Elderton|editor2-first= Louisa|editor3-last= Morrill|editor3-first= Rebecca|title=Great women artists |date=2019 |publisher=Phaidon Press |isbn=978-0714878775 |page=247}}{{Cite web|date=2020-01-18|title=How Linder went from Orgasm Addict to Chatsworth House|url=http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/jan/18/linder-post-punk-artist-retrospective-at-kettles-yard|access-date=2022-04-09|website=The Guardian|language=en}}

Visual artists Gee Vaucher and her partner, Penny Rimbaud were both members of the anarcho-punk band Crass. Vaucher's collages and paintings defined the aesthetic of the band and were instrumental to the 'protest art' of the 1980s. She considers her artwork as a tool for social change; and works from a feminist and anarcho-pacifist point of view.{{cite book |author=Berger, George |title=The Story of Crass |publisher=Omnibus Press |year=2006 |isbn=978-1846094026}}

{{Main|Patti Smith}}

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Patti Smith (born 1946) is a New York City-based punk rock singer-songwriter, poet and artist, whose first album, Horses (1975), significantly influenced the New York City punk rock genre. Smith's work went on to receive international recognition. In 2007 she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.{{cite web|title=Patti Smith|url=http://www.rockhall.com/inductees/patti-smith/|publisher=Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum|access-date=25 November 2015}} She was born Patricia Lee Smith in Chicago, Illinois.{{Cite book

| last1 = Bockris

| first1 = Victor

| last2 = Bayley

| first2 = Roberta

| title = Patti Smith: an unauthorized biography

| publisher = Simon and Schuster

| location = New York City

| year = 1999

| page = [https://archive.org/details/pattismithunauth00bock/page/19 19]

| isbn = 978-0-684-82363-8

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{{Main|Chrissie Hynde}}

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Chrissie Hynde (born 1951 in Akron, Ohio) is a singer, songwriter and guitar player and co-founder of the band The Pretenders.{{cite news|last1=Light|first1=Alan|title=Her City's Not Gone, and Neither is She|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/arts/music/05ligh.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0|access-date=25 November 2015|newspaper=The New York Times|date=3 October 2008}} They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005.

{{Main|Siouxsie Sioux}}

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Born Susan Janet Ballion in 1957 in Southwark, London, England, Siouxsie Sioux is best known as the lead singer of Siouxsie and the Banshees, which released 11 studio albums. She continued to tour with The Creatures before embarking on a solo career.{{cite magazine|first=Jon|last=Savage|author-link=Jon Savage|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rOtx9nPM4ncC&q=jon+savage+siouxsie+spin&pg=PA64|title=High Priestess|magazine=Spin|publisher=SpinMedia|location=Los Angeles, California|date=June 1986|access-date=4 January 2020|page=66}}

{{Main|Nina Hagen}}

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Catharina Hagen (born 1955), known as Nina Hagen, is a singer and songwriter born in East Berlin, German Democratic Republic. After she emigrated to West-Berlin in 1976, she joined the band Spliff, and together they named themselves Nina Hagen Band. They released two studio albums, Nina Hagen Band and Unbehagen. She left the band in 1979 and became a solo artist, and released her first solo album, NunSexMonkRock, in 1982.{{cite web|last1=Metzger|first1=Richard|title=Pre-punk Nina Hagen in East Germany, 1974|url=http://dangerousminds.net/comments/pre_punk_nina_hagen_in_east_germany_1974|website=Dangerous Minds|date=15 December 2011|access-date=25 November 2015}} This was followed by the 1983 album, Fearless and in 1985, In Ekstasy.{{cite book |last1=Schönauer |first1=Walter |title=Nina Hagen: Bekenntnisse (Confessions) |date=2011 |publisher=Pattloch Verlag |location=Munich, Germany |isbn=978-3-629-02272-1}}

{{Main|Exene Cervenka}}

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Exene Cervenka co-founded the band X in 1977, with bassist John Doe, guitarist Billy Zoom and drummer DJ Bonebrake. Their debut album Los Angeles (1980) established her as a presence as one of the most influential vocalists in the punk rock movement.{{cite news|last1=Facroski|first1=Kelli Skye|title=Exene tells it straight on X, illness and O.C.|url=http://www.ocregister.com/soundcheck/http-481809-ocregister-people.html|access-date=25 November 2015|newspaper=The Orange County Register|date=21 August 2013}}

{{Main|Joan Jett}}

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Joan Jett, born Joan Marie Larkin, began her career when she was still in high school as the rhythm guitarist and later lead singer for the all-female band, The Runaways; their work included the 1976 song "Cherry Bomb" and the 1977 album Queens of Noise. In the 1980s she founded her own independent label, Blackheart Records.{{cite news|last1=Popson|first1=Tom|title=Top 10 Again, Joan Jett Looks at the State of Rock|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/282515939|access-date=25 November 2015|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|date=7 October 1988|id={{ProQuest|282515939}} }} In 2015 she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

{{Main|Lydia Lunch}}

Lydia Lunch, began her career as the frontwoman for the band Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, and went on to collaborate with numerous other musicians and bands, including Nick Cave, Sonic Youth, and Brian Eno, among others.{{cite news |title=Lydia Lunch Through the Years |url=http://6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/20/lydia-lunch-through-the-years/|access-date=4 January 2020 |work=New York Times|date=20 December 2013 }}

{{Main|Poly Styrene}}

Poly Styrene (1957–2011), born Marianne Joan Elliott-Said, founded the punk band X-Ray Spex. The band's 1978 album Germ Free Adolescents established her as a front woman, singer-songwriter and musician.{{cite web |last1=Nissim |first1=Mayer |title=Punk star Poly Styrene dies, aged 53 |url=https://www.digitalspy.com/music/a316400/punk-star-poly-styrene-dies-aged-53/ |website=Digital Spy |date=26 April 2011 |access-date=4 January 2020}}

{{Main|Ari Up}}

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Ari Up (1962–2010), was born Ariane Daniela Forster in Munich, Germany, and was a vocalist and member of The Slits, a British punk rock band. She was only 14 years old she became The Slits' frontwoman in 1976, and was known as the most flamboyant and eccentric member of the group. She took guitar lessons from Joe Strummer of The Clash.{{cite news|last1=Robb|first1=John|title=Ari Up obituary: The Slits frontwoman, she helped to reinvent women's role in music|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/oct/21/ari-up-obituary?intcmp=239|access-date=25 November 2015|newspaper=The Guardian|date=21 October 2010}}{{cite magazine|last1=Kreps|first1=Daniel|title=Ari Up, of the Punk Band the Slits, dies at 48|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=21 October 2010|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/ari-up-of-the-punk-band-the-slits-dies-at-48-20101021|access-date=25 November 2015}} Up's mother is the music promoter Nora Forster, a publishing heiress of the newspaper Der Spiegel{{cite news |last1=Jonze |first1=Tim |title='I know what it's like to be frightened': John Lydon on loneliness, lyrics and life as a Sex Pistol |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jun/13/john-lydon-sex-pistols-johnny-rotten-danny-boyle-the-queen |access-date=12 October 2022 |work=The Guardian |date=13 June 2022}} whose home became a crash pad and meeting place for many rock musicians, and who financially helped support The Slits, the Sex Pistols and The Clash. Ari Up grew up within this creative milieux where she was raised by Forster and John Lydon.{{cite book |last1=Wilkinson |first1=David |title=Post-Punk, Politics and Pleasure in Britain |date=2016 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK |isbn=9781137497802 |page=158 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3B_0DAAAQBAJ |access-date=12 October 2022}}{{cite book |last1=Kinsella |first1=Warren |title=Fury's Hour: A (sort of) Punk Manifesto |date=2011 |publisher=Random House of Canada |isbn=9780307369727 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tAKSNLj1wGEC |access-date=12 October 2022}}{{cite book |last1=Howe |first1=Zoe |title=How's Your Dad?: Living in the Shadow of a Rock Star Parent |date=2010 |publisher=Omnibus Press |isbn=9780857124159 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UJ30tIZmf8YC |access-date=12 October 2022}}

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British born Gaye Advert, also known as Gaye Black, was the bass player for The Adverts. She has been called "one of punk's first female icons", and the "first fema[le] punk star".{{cite book|last1=Strong|first1=M.C.|title=The Great Indie Discography|date=2003|publisher=Canongate Books|location=Edinburgh, Scotland|isbn=978-1-84195-335-9}}{{cite book|last1=Larkin|first1=Colin|title=The Virgin Encyclopedia of 70s Music|date=2002|publisher=Virgin Books|location=London, England|isbn=978-1-85227-947-9}}

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Paloma McLardy (born 1955) is known as the drummer and songwriter for The Slits, as Palmolive. Born in Spain, she moved to London in 1972 to live in the squats with other counter-cultural youths.{{cite journal|last1=Gallix|first1=Andrew|title=Untypical Girl|journal=3:AM Magazine|date=2005|url=http://www.3ammagazine.com/musicarchives/2005/sep/interview_paloma_mclardy.shtml|access-date=9 December 2015}} In London, she befriended Joe Strummer of The Clash, who introduced her to Sid Vicious, bass player for the Sex Pistols. Through these alliances she joined the band The Flowers of Romance with guitarist Viv Albertine. Having met 14-year-old Ari Up at a Patti Smith concert, they formed the all-women punk band, The Slits, playing gigs with The Clash, the Sex Pistols, the Buzzcocks, and others. In 1979, she joined the all female punk band, The Raincoats, who recorded their self-titled debut album for Rough Trade Records.{{cite journal|last1=Berger|first1=Melody|title=The Pilgrimage of Palmolive|journal=Tom Tom Magazine|volume=Special Issue on Spirituality and Religion|date=February 2014|url=http://tomtommag.com/2014/02/the-pilgrimage-of-palmolive/|access-date=9 December 2015}}

{{Main|Poison Ivy (musician)}}

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Poison Ivy (born Kristy Marlana Wallace in 1953) is known for her work as a guitarist and songwriter who co-founded the American punk-rockabilly band The Cramps. Also known as Poison Ivy Rorschach, she also provided vocals, arranged songs and produced many of the band's records. She met Lux Interior (born Erick Lee Purkhiser) at Sacramento State College in 1972, who became the singer for The Cramps, whose work gained a cult following as well a course of European commercial success.{{cite web|title=Aloha from hell! The grave tale of a dead serious rock'n'roll band|url=http://www.thestoolpigeon.co.uk/features/interview-the-cramps-lux-interior-poison-ivy.html|work=The Stool Pigeon|access-date=7 May 2012|first=Garry |last=Mulholland|date=December 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120205195305/http://www.thestoolpigeon.co.uk/features/interview-the-cramps-lux-interior-poison-ivy.html|archive-date=5 February 2012|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|title=Poison Ivy 1992 Interview|url=http://suchbeautifulgardens.blogspot.com/2010/03/poison-ivy-1992-interview.html|work=PENETRATING INSIGHTS|publisher=Nonozeroblog.blogspot.com|access-date=7 May 2012|author=Pius|date=23 February 1992}}

{{Main|Debbie Harry}}

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Debbie Harry is one of the most commercially successful musicians of punk rock/new wave. Her band, Blondie, often performed at CBGB in New York City, and their 1978 album, Parallel Lines, is considered a punk-pop classic. Harry's band, Blondie was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006.{{cite web|title=Blondie Biography|url=http://rockhall.com/inductees/blondie/bio/|website=Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum|access-date=25 November 2015}}

{{Main|Viv Albertine}}

Viv Albertine (born 1954, in Sydney, Australia) is a guitarist and singer for the British punk band The Slits. Albertine was part of the inner circle of the punk bands The Clash and the Sex Pistols, and joined The Slits in 1977. She has also played with the post-punk band Flying Lizards, the dubstep-influenced New Age Steppers and the punk band The Flowers of Romance.{{cite journal|last1=Parkhouse|first1=Will|title=I Do Not Believe In Love: Viv Albertine On Life Post The Slits|journal=The Quietus|date=25 February 2010|url=http://thequietus.com/articles/03789-viv-albertine-of-the-slits-interview-on-new-ep-never-come|access-date=18 July 2017}}

{{Main|Belinda Carlisle}}

Belinda Carlisle's first venture into punk rock music was in 1977 as drummer for the band the Germs, under the name Dottie Danger.{{cite book|last=Bag|first=Alice|author-link=Alice Bag|title=Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage, a Chicana Punk Story|publisher=Feral House|pages=185–6|isbn= 978-1-936-23913-9|date=2 September 2011}} She was recruited into the band by Lorna Doom.{{cite book|last1=Spitz|first1=Marc|last2=Mullen|first2=Brendan|year=2010|title=We Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of L.A. Punk|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BXyCHYk3C90C|publisher=Crown/Archetype|isbn=978-0-307-56624-9|page=67}}{{cite book|title=Lexicon Devil: The Fast Times and Short Life of Darby Crash and The Germs|page=43|author1=Mullen, Brendan |author2=Bolles, Don |author3=Parfrey, Adam|year=2009|publisher=Feral House|isbn= 978-1-932-59555-0}} Soon after leaving the Germs, she co-founded the Go-Go's (originally named the Misfits), with Margot Olavarria, Elissa Bello, and Jane Wiedlin. After Olavarria and Bello's departure from the band the new line-up included bassist-turned-guitarist Charlotte Caffey, guitarist-turned-bassist Kathy Valentine, and drummer Gina Schock.{{cite magazine|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151220175635/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/the-go-gos/biography|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/the-go-gos/biography|magazine=Rolling Stone|title=The Go-Go's|series=Biography|access-date=19 September 2017|url-status=dead|archive-date=20 December 2015}}

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• Barbara Ess
• Bush Tetras
• Cherie Currie
• Cherry Vanilla
• Delta 5
• Edith Nylon
• Elli Medeiros
• Essential Logic
• Honey Bane
• Gee Vaucher
• Gina Birch
• Jackie Fox
• Jayne County
• Jordan
• Kate Korus (fr)
• Lene Lovich
• Lora Logic
• Lorna Doom
• Marie Currie
• Neo Boys
• The Nixe
• Pat Place
• Patricia Morrison
• Pauline Murray
• Penelope Houston
• Phew
• Phranc
• Shanne Bradley
• Suzi Gutsy (fr)
• Tessa Pollitt
• Toyah
• The Dishrags
• The Raincoats
• Vi Subversa
• Vivien Goldman

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{{Main|Lene Lovich}}

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Lene Lovich is an American-born English singer, known for her idiosyncratic vocal style. Although active in 1978 and 1979, much of her success was in the 1980s. Her debut studio album Stateless (1978), which produced the single "Lucky Number". She released two more albums, Flex (1979) and No Man's Land (1982), on Stiff Records. In 1989, she independently released the album March, before her 15-year hiatus from music.{{cite magazine|first=Jason|last=Juneau|url=http://www.furious.com/perfect/lenelovich.html|title=Innovation in New Wave: Lene Lovich|magazine=Perfect Sound Forever|date=September 2001}}

{{Main|Kim Gordon}}

The American bassist and singer, Kim Gordon (born 1953) and her band, Sonic Youth were formed in 1981, establishing her as an important presence in the downtown New York City music scene. She wrote and performed music with Sonic Youth through 2012. Her memoir, Girl in a Band was published in 2015.{{cite magazine|last1=Hyman|first1=Dan|title=Q&A: Kim Gordon on Her New Bankd Body/Head and Missing Sonic Youth|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=12 September 2013|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/q-a-kim-gordon-misses-playing-with-sonic-youth-20130912|access-date=25 November 2015}}

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{{Main|Lydia Lunch}}

Lydia Lunch (born 1959) is a US punk rock and No Wave singer. Her career was established with the founding of Teenage Jesus and the Jerks in collaboration with James Chance. In the mid-1980s she formed Widowspeak, a recording and publishing company.{{cite news|last1=Calhoun|first1=Ada|title=Lydia Lunch Through the Years|url=http://6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/20/lydia-lunch-through-the-years/?_r=0|access-date=25 November 2015|newspaper=The New York Times|date=20 December 2013}}

{{Main|Tina Bell}}

Singer and songwriter of the Seattle-based punk and grunge band Bam Bam.{{Cite web |last=Uitti |first=Jacob |date=10 October 2021 |title=Who Was Rocker Tina Bell? And Why It Matters |url=https://americansongwriter.com/who-was-rocker-tina-bell-and-why-it-matters/ |website=American Songwriter|access-date=7 January 2021}} Bell has been called the "Godmother of Grunge". According to Stewart Yamazaki of the Seattle Times, "The legacy of Bell, a Black woman, has often been overlooked in a genre typically associated with long-haired white guys."{{cite news |last1=Stewart |first1=Jade Yamazaki |title=Before Nirvana or Pearl Jam, there was Tina Bell, the godmother of grunge. |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/music/before-nirvana-or-pearl-jam-there-was-tina-bell-the-black-godmother-of-grunge-musicians-pay-tribute-in-upcoming-concert/ |access-date=8 January 2022 |publisher=Seattle Times |date=8 July 2021}}

{{Main|Wendy O. Williams}}

Wendy O. Williams (1949–1998) was the lead singer and songwriter for the punk band, Plasmatics whose performances included such actions as chain-sawing guitars and blowing up equipment on stage.{{cite news|last1=Strauss|first1=Neil|title=Wendy O. Williams, 48, Star of Explosive Punk Rock Act|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/09/arts/wendy-o-williams-48-star-of-explosive-punk-rock-act.html|access-date=25 November 2015|newspaper=The New York Times|date=9 April 1998}}

{{main|Debora Iyall}}

Debora Iyall was the lead singer in the San Francisco-based punk band, Romeo Void.{{cite web|last1=Evans|first1=Kirsty|title=Debora Iyall Fills a Void|url=http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/debora-iyall-fills-a-void/Content?oid=1689704|website=East Bay Express|date=14 April 2010|access-date=12 February 2016}} She was born in Washington state and is of Cowlitz Native American heritage.{{cite news|last1=Lanham|first1=Tom|title=Debora Iyall from Romeo Void is back with 'Stay Strong'|url=http://archives.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/debora-iyall-from-romeo-void-is-back-with-stay-strong/Content?oid=2176392|access-date=13 February 2016|agency=San Francisco Examiner|date=10 June 2011}} She is known for her skills as a lyricist whose "searing imagery" explores themes like sexuality and alienation from a female perspective.{{cite web | url = http://www.allmusic.com/artist/romeo-void-mn0000831448/biography | last = Mason | first = Stewart | title = Romeo Void biography | publisher = AllMusic. All Media Network |access-date = 21 February 2011}}

{{Main|Shonen Knife}}

File:Shonen Knife-5.jpgShonen Knife in 2008, Japanese garage-pop punk band, was influenced by the Girl groups of the 1960s.{{cite news | author=Murther, Christopher | title=Shonen Knife Makes Its Point With Positive Punk | url=http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2005/03/09/shonen_knife_makes_its_point_with_positive_punk/ | work=Boston Globe | publisher=The New York Times Company | date=9 March 2005 | access-date=9 March 2005}} Current members include Naoko Yamano, Ritsuko Taneda, Atsuko Yamano, Risa Kawano, Naru Ishizuka. Former members of the band include Michie Nakatani, Mana Nishiura, Etsuko Nakanishi and Emi Morimoto.

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• April Palmieri
• Au Pairs
• Beki Bondage
• Brix Smith
• Caroline Azar
• Chalk Circle
• Dee Plakas
• Dolly Mixture
• Eve Libertine
• Donita Sparks
• Fifth Column
• Fire Party
• Helen McCookerybook
• Honey Bane
• Jane Dornacker, Leila and the Snakes
• Jean Smith
• Jennifer Finch
• Joy De Vivre
• June Miles-Kingston
• Julie "Jules" Lanfeld, Sin 34
• Kim Shattuck, The Muffs
• Kira Roessler
• L7
• LiLiPUT (formerly Kleenex)
• Little Annie a.k.a. Annie Anxiety/Bandez
• Marine Girls
• Mia Zapata
• Mo-dettes
• Nina Childress
• Rubella Ballet
• Sara Lee
• Sugar Babydoll
• Suzi Gardner
• Teresa Taylor
• The 5.6.7.8's
• The Belle Stars
• The Go-Go's
• The Gymslips
• Toyah
• Vi Subversa
• VulpSS
• Yanka Dyagileva

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{{Main|Riot Grrrl}}

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Riot grrrl is an underground feminist hardcore punk movement that originally started in the early 1990s, in Washington, D.C.,{{cite web|url=https://www.sheknows.com/entertainment/articles/1080646/its-riot-grrrl-day-in-boston-here-are-songs-to-rock-out-to-at-work/|title=Boston wins 'Most Feminist City' with Riot Grrrl Day — we made a playlist to celebrate|first=Deirdre|last=Kaye|date=9 April 2015}} and the greater Pacific Northwest, noticeably in Olympia, Washington.{{cite web|last1=Feliciano|first1=Steve|title=The Riot Grrrl Movement |url=http://www.nypl.org/blog/2013/06/19/riot-grrrl-movement|publisher=New York Public Library}} It is often associated with third-wave feminism, which is sometimes seen as its starting point. It has also been described as a musical genre that came out of indie rock, with the punk scene serving as an inspiration for a musical movement in which women could express themselves in the same way men had been doing for the past several years.Marion Leonard. "Riot grrrl." Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 20 July 2014.

Riot grrrl bands often address issues such as rape, domestic abuse, sexuality, racism, patriarchy, and female empowerment. Bands associated with the movement include Bikini Kill, Bratmobile, Heavens to Betsy, Excuse 17, Huggy Bear, Cake Like, Skinned Teen, Emily's Sassy Lime, Sleater-Kinney, and also queercore groups like Team Dresch.{{cite web|url=http://www.hot-topic.org/node/13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090223012118/http://www.hot-topic.org/node/13 |archive-date=23 February 2009|title=List of Riot Girl Bands |publisher=Hot-topic.org |access-date=30 September 2012}}{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-zqSn0jMJAQC&q=Dickless%20riot&pg=PA42|first=Marisa|last=Meltzer|page=42 |title=Girl Power: The Nineties Revolution in Music|publisher=Macmillan|isbn=9781429933285|date=15 February 2010}} In addition to a music scene and genre, riot grrrl is a subculture involving a DIY ethic, zines, art, political action, and activism.{{Cite book| publisher = W.W. Norton| isbn = 978-0-393-05936-6| last = Jackson| first = Buzzy| title = A Bad Woman Feeling Good: Blues and the Women Who Sing Them| location = New York| year = 2005| url-access = registration| url = https://archive.org/details/badwomanfeelingg00buzz}} Riot grrrls are known to hold meetings, start chapters, and support and organize women in music.{{cite journal|last=Schilt|first=Kristen |title="A Little Too Ironic": The Appropriation and Packaging of Riot Grrrl Politics by Mainstream Female Musicians |journal=Popular Music and Society|year=2003|volume=26|issue=1 |url=http://www.public.asu.edu/~kleong/staffpage/course/riottgrrl%20analysis.pdf|doi=10.1080/0300776032000076351|page=5|s2cid=37919089 }}

Some groups that participated in the Riot grrrl movement encouraged men to stand near the back during concerts to allow women their own space near the front.{{Cite journal|last=Dunn|first=Kevin|date=March 2012|title=We ARE the Revolution": Riot Grrrl Press, Girl Empowerment, and DIY Self-Publishing|journal=Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva|pages=156|via=EBSCO}} Many members of the punk rock community considered this and other methods of Riot grrrl to be too radical. Due to this, another feminist movement emerged in the East Bay. One group, Spitboy, pushed their feminist values through integration rather than division. They played at venues such as 924 Gilman Street, which banned sexism and sexual harassment.Redford, C. (Director). (2017). Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk [Motion picture]. United States: Abramorama.

{{Main|Kathleen Hanna}}

Kathleen Hanna (born 1968) and Tobi Vail co-founded the band, Bikini Kill, establishing the feminist riot grrrl movement. Hanna has also released an album under the name Julie Ruin, which developed into Le Tigre.{{cite magazine|last1=Frere-Jones|first1=Sasha|title=Hanna and Her Sisters|magazine=The New Yorker|date=26 November 2012|url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/11/26/hanna-and-her-sisters|access-date=25 November 2015}}

{{Main|PJ Harvey}}

PJ Harvey (born 1969) is an English performer associated with the punk blues and alternative rock genres.{{cite news|title=PJ Harvey wins Mercury Prize for second time|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-14815129|work=BBC News|access-date=25 November 2015}}

{{Main|The Breeders}}

The Breeders are an American band formed in 1990 by Kim Deal of the Pixies, her twin sister Kelley Deal and Tanya Donelly of Throwing Muses. The band has experienced a number of lineup changes; Kim Deal has been the band's sole continual member. Their first album, Pod (1990), though not commercially successful, received wide critical acclaim. The Breeders' most successful album, Last Splash (1993), is best known for the hit single "Cannonball".{{Citation

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{{Main|Elastica}}

Elastica were an English band best known for their 1995 album Elastica, which produced singles that charted in the United Kingdom and the United States.{{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p5255|pure_url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/elastica-p44835| title=Elastica > Biography | access-date=4 June 2016 | author=Erlewine, Stephen Thomas}}

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{{Main|Republica}}

Republica are an English band formed in 1994, featuring their lead singer Saffron. Republica are best known for their hit single, "Ready to Go". Their music is described as dance punk or technopop punk rock.

{{Main|Hole (band)}}

Hole was formed in Los Angeles in 1989 by singer and guitarist Courtney Love and lead guitarist Eric Erlandson. The band had a revolving line-up of bassists and drummers, their most prolific being drummer Patty Schemel, and bassists Kristen Pfaff (d. 1994) and Melissa Auf der Maur.{{cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/958756/courtney-love-fixing-a-hole|magazine=Billboard|title=Courtney Love: Fixing a Hole|date=2 April 2010|access-date=21 October 2013|author=Harding, Cortney}}

{{Main|Babes in Toyland (band)}}

Babes in Toyland (band) was a Minneapolis-based American punk rock band most active from 1987 to 2001, and reunited from 2014 to 2020.{{cite web|title = Babes in Toyland: 'Our reunion is all about the friendship'|url = https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/feb/22/babes-in-toyland-reunion-interview|date=22 February 2015|website = The Guardian|access-date =24 November 2015|first = Laura|last = Barton}} Vocalist and guitarist Kat Bjelland, founded the band with drummer Lori Barbero and bassist Michelle Leon. In 1992, Leon was replaced by Maureen Herman. They are best known for their albums, Spanking Machine (1990), Fontanelle (1992) and Nemesisters (1995).{{Cite web|title=Pop/Jazz; Post-Punk Angst of Babes in Toyland|work=The New York Times|date= 27 March 1992|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/27/arts/pop-jazz-post-punk-angst-of-babes-in-toyland.html|access-date=4 November 2017|author=Schoemer, Karen|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101207170056/https://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/27/arts/pop-jazz-post-punk-angst-of-babes-in-toyland.html|archive-date=7 December 2010|url-status=live}} {{closed access}}

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• 7 Year Bitch
• Autoclave
• Becca Albee
• Bif Naked
• Christina Billotte
• Corin Tucker
• Fabulous Disaster
• Free Kitten
• Heavens to Betsy
• Huggy Bear
• Janet Weiss
• Jody Bleyle
• Kaia Wilson
• Kat Bjelland
• Katastrophy Wife (fr)
• Lunachicks
• L7
• Nomy Lamm
• Quix*o*tic
• Shirley Manson
• Slant 6
• Spitboy
• The Donnas
• Theo Kogan
• Tilt – Cinder Block

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The first Ladyfest was held in August 2000, a DIY collectively organised festival of women in grassroots, punk and DIY music. Ladyfest was at its height in this era with few being held in the present day.

{{Main|Carrie Brownstein|Sleater-Kinney|Wild Flag}}

Carrie Brownstein (born 1974) rose to prominence by establishing the riot grrrl all-women punk band Sleater-Kinney with Corin Tucker and Janet Weiss.{{cite magazine|last1=Kreps|first1=Daniel|title=Carrie Brownstein Pens Memoir 'Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl'|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=15 March 2014|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/carrie-brownstein-pens-memoir-hunger-makes-me-a-modern-girl-20150314|access-date=25 November 2015}} During the early 2010s, Brownstein and Weiss were members of the band Wild Flag.

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{{Main|Laura Jane Grace}}

Laura Jane Grace (born 1980) is an American transgender musician who is the founder, guitarist and lead singer, songwriter and of the punk band Against Me!{{cite news|last1=Gross|first1=Terry|title=For Laura Jane Grace, Punk Was A Form Of Armor|url=https://www.npr.org/2017/04/04/522581237/for-laura-jane-grace-punk-was-a-form-of-armor|access-date=18 July 2017|publisher=National Public Radio|date=4 April 2017}}

{{Main|Brody Dalle}} Australian-born singer-songwriter and guitarist, leader of The Distillers and spinnerette. {{citation needed|date=December 2019}}

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Other prominent female punk related artists, bands and individuals from this era include Beth Ditto, Vivian Girls, Tacocat, P.S. Eliot, Bleach, Holly Brewer, Jemina Pearl, Mika Miko, Nü Sensae, Retching Red, The Bombpops, Regina Zernay Roberts, The Coathangers, Flamingo 50 and Akiko "Keex" Matsuura.

The 2010s saw a considerable increase in numbers of women taking up rock musicianship.{{cite web|author=Roisin O'Connor|date=18 October 2018|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/new-guitar-players-women-men-gender-split-fender-taylor-swift-a8589786.html|title=Half of all new guitar players are women, finds study|website=The Independent|access-date=8 January 2019}}{{cite web|author=John Harris|date=23 October 2018|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/23/rock-music-survive-testosterone-guitar-female|title=For rock music to survive it will have to cut back on testosterone|website=The Guardian|access-date=8 January 2019|author-link=John Harris (critic)}} Accordingly, there was a profusion of new female or female-fronted bands on the punk scene.{{cite magazine|last1=Turnball|first1=Bruce|title='There is also a strong movement of bands with girls and it is very refreshing to see, it gives new life to the scene' – Nina Courson, lead singer of Healthy Junkies|magazine=Vive Le Rock issue 61 p35}}

{{Main|Big Joanie}}

Big Joanie is a British punk band formed in London in 2013. Its members are Stephanie Phillips (guitar and vocals) and Estella Adeyeri (bass guitar and vocals), previously also with Chardine Taylor-Stone (drums and vocals).{{cite web|url=http://www.thefader.com/2017/10/30/big-joanie-punk-trio-gen-f-interview|title=Women of color have always had a place in punk. Big Joanie is here to remind you of that.|last=Myers|first=Owen|publisher=The Fader|date=30 October 2017|access-date=25 August 2024}} After a few singles and EPs they released their first album in 2018 with Thurston Moore and Eva Prinz's Daydream Library Series, and have since signed to Kill Rock Stars in the U.S.{{cite web|url=http://thequietus.com/articles/25733-big-joanie-sistahs-lead-album-review|title=Family Trio: Big Joanie's Sistahs|first=Melissa|last=Steiner|website=The Quietus|date=29 November 2018|access-date=25 August 2024}}

{{Main|Otoboke Beaver}}

All female punk rock band from Kyoto, Japan.{{cite web|author=loan|date=11 April 2016|title=Otoboke Beaver - pre-tour interview and EP review|url=https://louderthanwar.com/otoboke-beaver-pre-tour-interview-ep-review/|access-date=15 October 2022|website=Louder Than War}} Current members: singer Accorinrin, guitarist Yoyoyoshie, bassist Hiro-chan, and drummer Kahokiss. The band formed in 2009;{{Cite web|date=1 May 2016|title=Otoboke Beaver - Crazed and Deranged Kyoto Garage Rock|url=https://www.electricbloomwebzine.com/2016/05/otoboke-beaver-interview.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180318120719/https://www.electricbloomwebzine.com/2016/05/otoboke-beaver-interview.html|archive-date=18 March 2018|access-date=15 October 2022|website=Electric Bloom magazine}} their most recent release was in May 2022.{{Cite web |last=Strauss |first=Matthew |date=2022-03-04 |title=Otoboke Beaver Announce New Album Super Champon, Share Video |url=https://pitchfork.com/news/otoboke-beaver-announce-new-album-super-champon-share-video-watch/ |access-date=2022-10-15 |website=Pitchfork |language=en-US}}

{{Main|Pussy Riot}}

Formed in 2011 as a punk band, artist collective and activist group.{{cite news|last1=Nocera|first1=Joe|title=Pussy Riot Tells All|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/08/opinion/nocera-pussy-riot-tells-all.html?_r=0|access-date=28 September 2016|newspaper=The New York Times|date=7 February 2014}}{{cite news |last1=Snapes |first1=Laura |title=Have Pussy Riot sparked a new wave of grrl power? |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/aug/21/pussy-riot-grrl-power |access-date=4 January 2020 |work=The Guardian |date=21 August 2012}} In addition to their music, the group used public guerrilla performance to convey political messages. These performances were the basis for music videos available online.{{cite news |last1=Langston |first1=Henry |title=Meeting Pussy Riot |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/A-Russian-Pussy-Riot/ |access-date=4 January 2020 |publisher=Vice |date=12 March 2012}}

{{Main|Amanda X}}

Post-punk power pop all-female trio from Philadelphia.{{cite news|last1=Nelson|first1=Brad|title=CMJ's opening night: Amanda X, Dune Rats, J Fernandez, Charly Bliss, Roomrunner|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/oct/22/cmj-new-york-amanda-x-dune-rats-j-fernandez-charly-bliss-roomrunner|access-date=18 July 2017|newspaper=The Guardian|date=22 October 2014}} Billboard magazine has called them "leaders in their scene" and has described their harmonies as thrash power-pop.{{cite magazine|last1=Sherman|first1=Maria|title=20 All-Female Bands You Need to Know|url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/pop-shop/girl-group-week/6494444/20-female-bands-sleater-kinney-ex-hex-girlpool|magazine=Billboard|access-date=18 July 2017}} They have also received press coverage from Rolling Stone and The Guardian. The band is composed of Melissa Brain on drums, Kat Bean on bass and Cat Park on guitar.{{cite magazine|last1=Grant|first1=Sara|title=10 New Artists You Need to Know: September 2014|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/10-new-artists-you-need-to-know-september-2014-20140902|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=18 July 2017}} Their sound has been compared to Sleater Kinney.{{cite web|last1=Ambrosio|first1=John|title=Amanda X, Amnesia (review)|date=5 August 2014|url=http://www.imposemagazine.com/reviews/amanda-x-amnesia-review|publisher=Impose|access-date=18 July 2017}}

{{Main|Meredith Graves|Perfect Pussy}}

Graves is the American frontwoman for the punk rock band Perfect Pussy, which was founded in 2012 in Syracuse, New York.{{cite news|last1=Minsker|first1=Evan|title=Perfect Pussy|url=http://pitchfork.com/features/rising/9244-perfect-pussy/|access-date=18 January 2020|work=Pitchfork|date=30 October 2013}}{{cite news|last1=Hughes|first1=Hilary|title=Perfect Pussy's Meredith Graves on Her New Label, Honor Press: 'No Snobs, No Phonies, No Shitheads'|url=http://www.villagevoice.com/music/perfect-pussys-meredith-graves-on-her-new-label-honor-press-no-snobs-no-phonies-no-shitheads-6631378|access-date=14 July 2016|work=Village Voice|date=25 February 2015}} In 2015, Graves went on to found the music label, Honor Press, as a feminist gesture to "fight punk's patriarchy".{{cite news|last1=Hughes|first1=Hilary|title=Perfect Pussy's Meredith Graves on Her New Label, Honor Press: 'No Snobs, No Phonies, No Shitheads'|url=http://www.villagevoice.com/music/perfect-pussys-meredith-graves-on-her-new-label-honor-press-no-snobs-no-phonies-no-shitheads-6631378|access-date=18 January 2020|work=Village Voice|date=25 February 2015}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jun/03/perfect-pussy-meredith-graves|title=Perfect Pussy's Meredith Graves: taking the feminist fight to punk's patriarchy|last=Garland|first=Emma|date=3 June 2015|work=The Guardian}} She described, in an interview with Ilana Kaplan in New York that her positive experiences making music were inspiration for establishing Honor Press.{{Cite news|url=http://nymag.com/thecut/2015/04/meredith-graves-on-powerful-punk-her-own-label.html|title=Meredith Graves on Powerful Punk and Her Own Label|last=Kaplan|first=Ilana|date=30 April 2015|work=New York Magazine|access-date=15 July 2016}} In the same interview, she cites women visual artists, Jenny Holzer and Barbara Kruger, as well as writers Kathy Acker and Susan Sontag as inspirations.

{{Main|Dream Wife (band)}}

Trio of Rakel Mjöll (lead vocals), Alice Go (guitar, vocals), and Bella Podpadec (bass, vocals).,{{cite news |last=Lester |first=Paul |date=19 February 2016 |title=New band of the week: Dream Wife |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/feb/19/dream-wife-new-band-of-the-week |work=The Guardian |location=London |access-date=18 November 2018}} supported by Alex Paveley on drums since 2018.{{Cite web|last=Nicholas|first=Coyne|date=26 January 2018|title=Dream Wife Talks Influence And Their Sound|url=https://tidal.com/magazine/article/dream-wife/1-47267|url-status=live|access-date=25 July 2021|website=tidal.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210725130832/https://tidal.com/magazine/article/dream-wife/1-47267 |archive-date=2021-07-25 }}{{Cite news|date=2020-07-03|title=Dream Wife: 'We need to practise what we preach'|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-53162279|access-date=2021-07-25}} Coverage from Rolling Stone magazine,{{cite magazine |last1=Legaspi |first1=Althea |last2=Klinkenberg |first2=Brendan |date=6 August 2018 |title=Lollapalooza 2018: The 13 Best Things We Saw |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/lollapalooza-2018-the-13-best-things-we-saw-706926/ |magazine=Rolling Stone |location=New York City |access-date=18 November 2018 }} BBC Music{{cite news |last1=Geoghegan |first1=Kev |last2=Glynn |first2=Paul |date=25 May 2018 |title=Six acts to discover at Biggest Weekend |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-44236654 |work=BBC Music |location=London|access-date=18 November 2018| quote=Dream Wife have evolved from an art school project to a jaw-dropping live act and one of the most talked-about new bands of 2018.}} and Billboard{{cite magazine |last=Lynch |first=Joe |date=8 March 2018 |title=Dream Wife on Accidentally Creating 'A Party Album' & Why Bands Are Like Marriages |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/8238687/dream-wife-interview |magazine=Billboard |location=New York City |publisher=Lynne Segall |access-date=18 November 2018|quote=Dream Wife are inarguably one of the most exhilarating live rock bands to emerge within the last few years, straddling the fine line between fun and ferocity while blasting crowds with their mixture of late '70s post-punk and early '00s New York rock.}} Second album So When You Gonna... reached number 18 on the UK album chart.{{cite web|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/49860/dream-wife/ |title=UK chart peaks |publisher=Official Charts Company |access-date=29 September 2020}}

{{Main|The Tuts}}

English DIY pop punk{{cite web|author=Dave Chrzanowski|date=5 March 2017 |url=http://www.songwritingmagazine.co.uk/interviews/introducing-the-tuts/36452|title=Introducing The Tuts|website=Songwriting Magazine|access-date=8 January 2019}} band from Hayes, London.{{cite web|url=http://overblown.co.uk/the-tuts-interview-it-is-literally-diy-or-die-and-we-dont-wanna-die/|title=The Tuts Interview: "It is literally DIY or die and we don't wanna die!" – Overblown|date=27 February 2016|access-date=6 June 2016}} Received extensive coverage from alternative music radio, most notably Amazing Radio, and from music websites. They were featured in the ITV series Young, British and Muslim in April 2018.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vZzZrjO6CI&t=710s|title=Changing what it means to be Young, British and Muslim - ITV News|date=25 April 2018 |publisher=YouTube}} Javed is now a solo artist.{{cite web | url=https://www.godivafestival.com/saturday/nadia-javed | title=Nadia Javed }}

{{Main|The SoapGirls}}

UK-based, French-born, South African-raised sisters Noemie Debray (guitar, vocals) and Camille Debray (guitar, vocals). Three albums released as punk band, multiple press coverageThe Soap Girls New Music profile by Alice Clarke, Planet Rock magazine, February 2020 p16The Soap Girls Society's Rejects album review by Hugh Guiland, Vive Le Rock, Issue 47 p91{{cite web|url=https://louderthanwar.com/the-soapgirls-interview|title=The Soap Girls Interview|date=13 August 2017|author=Alexandra Hawkins|publisher=Louder Than War|access-date=4 January 2020}} Previous career as dance-pop act on Universal Records in South Africa, scored number one album and four Top 5 singles on country's music charts.{{cite web|url=http://theportlandarms.co.uk/wp/event/the-soap-girls|title=The Soap Girls|date=3 August 2016|author=Portland Arms|publisher=Portland Arms|access-date=9 January 2020}}

{{Main|Hands Off Gretel}}

Solo artist and since 2015 lead singer of Hands Off Gretel. an alternative rock/grunge band affiliated to the UK punk scene, formed 2015 in South Yorkshire.{{Cite web|url=https://louderthanwar.com/hands-off-gretel-burn-beauty-queen-album-review2/|title=Hands Off Gretel: Burn the Beauty Queen - Album Review|first=Ged|last=Babey|date=18 September 2016}}Hands Off Gretel live review from The Great British Alternative Festival 2018 accompanied by full page photograph of singer Lauren Tate, Vive Le Rock, Issue 58 pp102-103 Also performs RnB/Hip Hop under the alias Delilah Bon.[https://www.soundspheremag.com/features/lauren-tate-on-creating-as-delilah-bon-taking-a-break-from-hands-off-gretel Lauren Tate on creating as Delilah Bon, taking a break from Hands Off Gretel, "Editor" retrieved October 13 2023]

{{Main|Maid of Ace}}

Punk rock band consisting of Hastings sisters Alison Cara Elliott (Lead vocals/guitar), Anna Coral Elliott (vocals/gGuitar), Amy Catherine Elliott (bass/vocals) and Abby Charlotte Elliott (drums). Three albums released, footage of their 2015 Glastonbury Festival uploaded by the BBC to its website.[https://louderthanwar.com/maid-ace-maid-england-album-review Maid Of Ace Maid In England album review by Ged Babey, Louder Than War, 31 July 2016][https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02vr7hs BBC 6music website - Maid of Ace "Bone Deth" Glastonbury Festival 205 live video, retrieved October 5, 2023]Maid Of Ace Rebellion Festival 2017 live review with photograph, Vive Le Rock Issue 47 pp 80–81 Have played at Wembley Stadium, second on the bill to Green Day.Green Day at Wembley Stadium live review,Vive Le Rock issue 114, 2024

{{Main|Healthy Junkies}}

French born, London based lead singer of punk rock/grunge band Healthy Junkies since 2009. They have released five albums, which have received multiple coverage in the press.{{Cite web|url=https://vivelerock.net/album-reviews-janfeb-2014/|title=ALBUM REVIEWS (JAN/FEB 2014)|first=Ian|last=Chaddock|website=Vive Le Rock Magazine}}[https://louderthanwar.com/interview-and-album-review-healthy-junkies Healthy Junkies interview and Box Of Chaos album review by Craig Chaligne, Louder Than War, 19 February 2016]

{{Main|Pussycat and the Dirty Johnsons}}

Frontwoman since 2002 of band Pussycat and the Dirty Johnsons. They have released four albums, which have received multiple coverage in the press.{{cite web|author=Ged Babey|date=13 February 2013|url=https://louderthanwar.com/pussycat-and-the-dirty-johnsons-dirty-rocknroll-album-review|title=Pussycat and the Dirty Johnsons: Dirty Rock'n'Roll – album review|website=Louder Than War|access-date=8 January 2019}}{{cite web|url=http://www.basingstokegazette.co.uk/leisure/music/11354140.Neil_Duncan_heads_to_The_Haunt_in_Brighton_to_see_Basingstoke_s_Pussycat_and_the_Dirty_Johnsons_in_action/|title=Neil Duncan heads to The Haunt in Brighton to see Basingstoke's Pussycat and the Dirty Johnsons in action|website=Basingstoke Gazette|date=21 July 2014 }}{{Cite web|url=http://thedirtyjohnsons.com/communities/9/004/009/809/349//images/4606751089.jpg|title=Dirty Rock N Roll album review, Vive Le Rock magazine 2013}} Collaborated with members of 1970s punk band Satan's Rats in 2022, as "Satan's Cats".[https://www.thepunksite.com/news/satans-rats-team-up-with-puss-johnson-to-become-satans-cats Satan's Rats Team Up With Puss Johnson To Become Satan's Cats, by Pinky, The Punk Site.Com, 12 October 2022]

{{Main|The Featherz}}

Welsh/English band with glam and punk influences (self-styled as "Flock Rock") led by Danie Centric (known as Danie Cox prior to January 2018, born 15 December 1990 in Bridgend) on lead vocals and guitar. Cox formed the band with two fellow former members of Georgie Girl And Her Poussez Posse, a band fronted by Georgina Baillie and mentored by Adam Ant.[http://www.walesonline.co.uk/whats-on/music-nightlife-news/outrageous-dressing-welsh-singer-danie-6686651 Outrageous dressing Welsh singer Danie Cox teams up with 80s legend Boy George] Wales On Sunday 9 January 2014 page 10 Centric also leads all female Slade tribute band Slady{{cite web|url=https://pluggedinbrighton.com/2019/07/15/gig-review-slady-the-hoodniks-the-prince-albert-saturday-2nd-june-2019/|title=Gig Review: Slady/The Hoodniks, The Prince Albert, Saturday 2nd June 2019|work=Plugged In Brighton |date=15 July 2019}} and records with The Lurkers.{{cite web|url=https://louderthanwar.com/lurkers-high-velocity-single-pete-nigel-esso-reclaim-name/|title=The Lurkers: High Velocity -new single – Pete Stride, Nigel Moore & Esso reclaim the name...|date=22 October 2017}}

{{Main|Petrol Girls}}

English punk rock band formed in London in 2012 by Ren Aldridge and Liepa Kuraitė, with Joe York and Zock Astpai joining later. The band is named after the historical Pétroleuses{{cite magazine|date=3 May 2017|title=Petrol Girls For Fans Of: Against Me!, Fugazi, Muncie Girls|url=https://www.pressreader.com/uk/kerrang-uk/20170503/282179355987479|magazine=Kerrang!|location=London|publisher=Wasted Talent Ltd |access-date=16 March 2018}}{{cite news|date=15 November 2016|title=Petrol Girls – Talk of Violence: Exclusive Album Stream|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/petrol-girls-talk-of-violence-exclusive-album-stream-a7417911.html|newspaper=The Independent|last=Dedman|first=Remfry|publisher=Independent Print Limited|location=London|access-date=16 March 2018}} and is outspokenly feminist. They have received media coverage.{{cite web|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/ren-aldridge-from-petrol-girls-in-calais/|title=Petrol Girls Singer Ren Aldridge Reflects on Visiting Displaced Residents in the Calais "Jungle"|website=Noisey|publisher=Vice Media|last1=Knox|first1=Ron|date=19 January 2016|access-date=16 March 2018}}

{{Main|The Kut}}

London-based alternative rock project, assembled by frontwoman and self-taught multi-instrumentalist Princess Maha.{{Cite web|author=Scott Colothan|date=16 May 2018|url=https://www.planetrock.com/news/rock-news/ones-to-watch-the-kut|title=Ones To Watch: The Kut|work=Planet Rock |access-date=8 January 2019}} They have received extensive radio and music press coverage including from Planet Rock, BBC Introducing,{{Cite web|author=BBC.co.uk|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03vmp1s/p045z002|title=BBC Introducing in Lancashire, radio broadcast transmitted BBC Radio Lancashire 16 July 2016 (Link to captioned studio image of The Kut in radio studio)|access-date=8 January 2019}} Kerrang!.{{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170803171540/https://www.pressreader.com/uk/kerrang-uk/20170329/281487866184809 |date=August 3, 2017 |title=Record Store Day |access-date=21 March 2023}} Debut album Valley of Thorns reached No. 18 in the UK Independent Albums Chart{{cite web|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/independent-albums-chart/20180511/131/|title=Official Independent Albums Chart Top 50 – Official Charts Company|website=www.officialcharts.com}}

{{Main|Barb Wire Dolls}}

Grunge/punk rock band from Greece, based in the United States. They were championed by Lemmy on whose personal record label (a subsidiary of Warner Music Group) their third and fourth albums were released.Richter, Alison (2012) "[http://www.guitarworld.com/interview-barb-wire-dolls-guitarist-pyn-doll-return-punk Interview: Barb Wire Dolls Guitarist Pyn Doll on the Return of Punk]", Guitar World, 7 February 2012. Retrieved 23 February 2013

{{Main|Nova Twins}}

English rock duo formed in London, England, in 2014, consisting of vocalist/guitarist Amy Love and bassist Georgia South.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/sep/12/new-band-of-the-week-nova-twins|title=New band of the week: Nova Twins (No 119) – bass-heavy duo fusing grime and punk|last=Lester|first=Paul|date=2016-09-12|newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=2019-06-27|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}} Nominated for British Group and Best Rock/Alternative Act at the 2023 Brit Awards{{Cite web |last=Smith |first=Carl |date=12 January 2023 |title=BRIT Awards 2023 nominations REVEALED |url=https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/brit-awards-2023-nominations-in-full-wet-leg-harry-styles-fred-again-and-the-1975-lead-list-of-nominees__38277/ |access-date=12 January 2023 |publisher=Official Charts Company}}

{{Main|The Ethical Debating Society}}

Three-piece DIY punk, post-riot grrrl group from London. Described by Gigslutz as "one of the most exciting DIY bands" in the UK.{{cite web|url=http://www.gigslutz.co.uk/interview-ethical-debating-society/|title=INTERVIEW: The Ethical Debating Society|publisher=Gigslutz|date=2016|first=Gabriel|last=Ebulue|access-date=2016-05-10}} Have received coverage from Everett True in The Guardian,{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2009/sep/14/myths-riot-grrrl-cribs-takeover|title=The 10 myths of Riot Grrrl|first=Everett|last=True|date=14 September 2009|access-date=25 October 2017|website=Theguardian.com}} Louder Than War{{cite web|url=http://louderthanwar.com/the-ethical-debating-society-new-sense-album-review/|title=The Ethical Debating Society 'New Sense' album review|publisher=Louder Than War|date=2015-02-15|first=Ngaire|last=Ruth|access-date=2016-05-10}} and the Hackney Citizen.{{cite web|url=https://www.hackneycitizen.co.uk/2011/03/16/winning-the-argument-the-ethical-debating-society/|title=Winning the argument: the Ethical Debating Society - Hackney Citizen|website=Hackneycitizen.co.uk|date=16 March 2011 |access-date=25 October 2017}}

{{Main|Priests (band)}}

Post-punk band from Washington D.C. formed in 2012 by Katie Alice Greer (vocals), Daniele Daniele (drums), Taylor Mulitz (bass), and G.L. Jaguar (guitar). Debut LP Nothing Feels Natural on several Best Albums Of 2017 lists including Billboard,{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/list/8062834/billboard-50-best-albums-of-2017-critics-picks|magazine=Billboard|title=Billboard's 50 Best Albums of 2017: Critics' Picks|first=J.|last=Lipshutz|date=12 December 2017}} NPR,{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2017/12/12/568400855/the-50-best-albums-of-2017|title=The 50 Best Albums Of 2017|first=Marissa|last=Lorusso|website=NPR|date=12 December 2017|access-date=11 May 2018}} the Atlantic,{{cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/12/best-albums-2017/547451/|website=The Atlantic|title=The 10 Best Albums of 2017|date=12 December 2017|first=Spencer|last=Kornhaber}} and Pitchfork.{{cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/the-50-best-albums-of-2017/?page=3|website=Pitchfork|title=The 50 Best Albums of 2017|date=12 December 2017}} Rolling Stone described the band as "forging jagged incantations that challenge norms ranging from the driving forces of capitalism to punk's own chest-beating macho traditions."{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/how-dc-punks-priests-are-redefining-protest-music-w462715|title=How D.C. Protest-Punks Priests Are Fighting Fascism on Their Own Terms|date=27 January 2017|first=Paula|last=Mejia|magazine=Rolling Stone}}

{{Main|White Lung (band)}}

Canadian punk band consisting of Mish Barber-Way (vocals), Kenneth William (guitars) and Anne-Marie Vassiliou (drums).{{Cite web

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{{Main|Doll Skin}}

All-female rock band from Phoenix, Arizona consisting of Meghan Herring (drums/vocals), Sydney Dolezal (lead vocals/rhythm guitar), Nicole Rich (bass), and Alex Snowden (lead guitar) who all met at School Of Rock Scottsdale.{{cite web|url=http://www.altpress.com/features/entry/7_of_the_best_rising_bands_under_21|title=7 of the best rising bands under 21|work=Alternative Press Magazine|date=29 December 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/music/10-best-bands-and-musicians-in-phoenix-under-the-age-of-21-6625578#page-4|title=10 Best Bands and Musicians in Phoenix Under the Age of 21|author=Jeff Moses|work=Phoenix New Times}}{{cite web|url=http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/music/teen-rockers-doll-skin-tell-how-they-got-in-with-megadeths-dave-ellefson-7899412|title=Doll Skin is Phoenix's Most Exciting Teen Rock Band – Phoenix New Times|author=Glenn BurnSilver|work=Phoenix New Times}}{{cite web|author=Bobby Olivier|

date=4 October 2018|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/festivals/8301676/2018-festival-sleeper-list-10-unknown-bands-to-know|title=The 10 Bands You Need to Know About for This Year's Festival Season|work=Billboard.com|access-date=31 December 2018}}

Other prominent female or female-fronted acts on the 2010s punk scene included dragSTER,[https://louderthanwar.com/dragster-anti-everything-album-review dragSTER Anti-Everything album review by Mark Ray Louder Than War, 27 July 2018]dragSTER feature/interview with Fi Dragster by Paula Frost, Vive Le Rock, Issue 57 pp67-68 IDestroy,{{cite web|author=Kerrang!|

date=14 March 2017|url=https://www.kerrang.com/the-news/idestroy-premiere-video-for-annie|title=IDestroy premiere Video for Annie|work=Kerrang.com|access-date=20 January 2019|

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date=25 February 2018|url=https://louderthanwar.com/idestroy-video-for-lemons-and-uk-tour-dates|title=IDestroy – video for Lemons and UK tour dates (with The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing)|work=louderthanwar.com|access-date=20 January 2019}} Océ Cheapfret of The Bolokos{{Cite web|url=http://www.skruttmagazine.se/bolokoseng.htm|title = THE BOLOKOS comes from Guadeloup}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.rci.fm/guadeloupe/infos/Culture/Bolokos-veritable-succes-pour-les-guadeloupeens-au-festival-anglais-Rebellion|title = The Bolokos : Véritable succès pour les guadeloupéens au festival anglais Rebellion}} Cryptic Street,Angie Needham (17 September 2018) [http://www.divamag.co.uk/Diva-Magazine/Culture/Cryptic-Street-Dont-Need-No-Men "Maltese post-punk band Cryptic Street Don't Need No Men"] DIVA Magazine Accessed 8 January 2019Matthew Agius (30 May 2018), 4:23 pm [https://www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/national/87225/girl_band_left_heartbroken_after_equipment_theft Girl band left heartbroken after equipment theft], Malta Today Accessed 8 January 2019

Good Throb,{{cite magazine |last=Daintith |first=Pat |date=December 2013 |title=Good Throb |url=http://maximumrocknroll.com/issue/mrr-367/ |magazine=Maximum Rocknroll |access-date=11 September 2024}} Nekra,{{cite magazine|url=https://www.maximumrocknroll.com/band/nekra/|title=Nekra - Royal Disruptor EP|magazine=Maximum Rocknroll|date=December 2020|first=Benny|last=Mathews|issue=451}} and Frau an all-female hardcore feminist punk band from London.{{cite journal|last1=Myint|first1=Ava|title=FRAU, "MIRA"|journal=Impose Magazine|date=12 August 2015|url=http://www.imposemagazine.com/bytes/new-music/frau-mira|access-date=18 July 2017}}{{cite journal|last1=Sherman|first1=Maria|title=20 All-Female Bands You Need To Know|journal=Billboard Magazine|date=6 March 2015|url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/pop-shop/girl-group-week/6494444/20-female-bands-sleater-kinney-ex-hex-girlpool|access-date=18 July 2017}}{{cite journal|last1=Layla|title=Record of the Week: FRAU Punk Is My Boyfriend EP|journal=Maximumrocknroll|date=23 September 2014|url=http://www.maximumrocknroll.com/record-of-the-week-frau-punk-is-my-boyfriend-ep/|access-date=18 July 2017}}{{cite news|last1=Bakare|first1=Lance|title=From Bad Brains to Cerebral Ballzy: why hardcore will never die|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/nov/20/hardcore-music-hard-fast-us-punk-rock|access-date=18 July 2017|newspaper=The Guardian|date=20 November 2014}}

• Women in the early East L. A. punk scene
• Lost Women of Punk Music
• List of all-female bands
• Women in music

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• [http://www.ashgate.com/pdf/SamplePages/Lost_Women_of_Rock_Music_Intro.pdf The Lost Women of Rock Music] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151207223300/http://www.ashgate.com/pdf/SamplePages/Lost_Women_of_Rock_Music_Intro.pdf |date=7 December 2015 }}
• [http://www.punk77.co.uk/linkpage/womeninpunk.htm Women in Punk A-Z]
• [http://www.biography.com/people/groups/women-of-punk-and-post-punk-music Women of Punk and Post Punk Music] at Biography.com
• [https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/9923-the-story-of-feminist-punk-in-33-songs/ The Story of Feminist Punk in 33 Songs] Pitchfork

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