I'm Not Sure That I Am Able

We Were A Small Group Of Weirdos And Baby Punks And Gays And Free Spirits Who Had To Use Our Imaginations A Lot. We Only Saw Pictures And Read Zines, So We Could Only Interpret The Aesthetic And Message Of Punk Scenes Around The World. We Were Basically The Duck-billed Platypuses Of Punk.

Because I Didn't Have Any Queer, Lesbian, Female Role Models I Hated My Own Femininity And Had To Look Deep Within Myself To Create An Identity That Worked For Me. Pop Culture Just Doesn't Hand Us Enough Variety To Choose From.

For Years Now I Have Run A Kitchen-sink Punk Salon In My House, Called Salon Du Gay. In The Early Days, People Would Pay For A Riot Grrrl Bob Or A Passable Bleach Job With A Mixtape, $3 Or A Selection Of Baked Goods - Whichever They Could Afford. More Recently Though, With Gossip Doing Well, I've Performed These Punk Hair Transformations For Free.

I Don't Get Mad With People, Like, 'oh, But That's Not What The Song Was About...' It's Also Nice To Know That People Are Mindlessly Dancing To A Song About The Us Government's Stance On Same-sex Marriages... Especially Straight Jocks. I Love That Idea. I Think That's The Beauty Of Music - It's Different For Everybody.

As A Kid, I Was Always Mad - Just Noticing The Women At Thanksgiving, Running Around The Kitchen, While The Men Were Watching Football. For One, I Don't Want To Cook, And For Two, I Hate Football. I Was Stuck In The Middle.