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Gggiirr.llss llLiivviinngg.oouuttOssiiddee.ssooccSiieettyy’’.ss sshhSiittG.L.O.S.S were anOlympia, Washingtonbased hardcore-punkband, with theirmusic focussing ontrans-feministvalues.they were activebetween 2014-2016,consisting of membersSadie “SwitchbladeSmith (vocals), JulayaAntolin (bass), CoreyEvans (drums), JakeBison (guitar) andTannrr Hainsworth(guitar)In the summer of 2016, the band became notorious forturning down a $50 000 record deal from EpitaphRecords. Despite initially wanting to take it anddonate the money, they decided against it due toEpitaph’s ties to Warner Bros, and as a group theydecided against supporting large corporations withtheir music.They disbanded shortly after due to public scrutiny andstress, but all profits made from their bandcamp aftersplitting were given directly to the Interfaiths WorksEmergency Overnight Shelter (a homeless shelter inolympia)
Poly StyreneMMaarriiaannnnee JJooaann EElllliiootttt--SSaaiiddMarianne was born on the 3 of July, 1957, to an Irishsecretary and a Somali dock worker (though she used totell people her father was an aristocrat)rdIn 1975 she released her first single under her realname ‘Mari Elliott’, titled ‘Silly Billy’. It was areggae track with slight ska influences.After watching the Sex Pistols play to an almost emptyaudience, she was inspired to put out an ad for “youngpunx who want to stick it together”. This was how shefounded X-Ray Spex, was dubbed one of the pioneers forRiot Grrrl Culture, and became Poly Styrene.She became an archetype foryoung female punks, as sherefused to conform topatriarchal norms, and wasoutspokenly political asboth a woman and a mixedrace person.Despite being diagnosed withschizophrenia, Styrenecontinued to do what sheloved and played music upuntil 2011, when she died ofbreast cancer.
HoneychildColemanColeman was born in Kentucky, and taught herselfto play guitar by ear at the age of 12 on herbrothers guitar.She began her musical career in New York city in1993, busking and performing sets with DJs in thesubway system, which influenced her sound greatly.In 1998, Coleman became a founding member of the“Sista Grrrl Riotts”, which was a punk sub-culturefocusing on women of colour, due to theexclusionary nature of Riot Grrrl at the time.TheSistaGrrrl movement planted the framworks forother punk movements like Afropunk.Coleman is theFront woman forthe blues-punkband ‘The 1865’,and also DJsunder the name‘DJ Sugarfree BK’