queer-feminist punk countercultures, theory art and action
- Categories
- Article/Artikel
- Magazine Title
- Graduate Journal of Social Science
- Magazine Year
- 2013
- Magazine Number
- 3
- Creator
- Wiedlack, Katharina
- Creator
- Wu, Charlotte
- Thesaurus
- LHBT, feminisme, populaire cultuur, kunsten, geweld, theorieën, Verenigde Staten, 21e eeuw
- Description
- Author investigates areas of knowledge production in contemporary queer-feminist punk countercultures in/from the US and draws a connection from countercultural accounts to academic anti-social queer theory. Based on the thesis that queer-feminist punk–countercultures, bands, musicians, writers and organizers–can be understood as a political movement, their productions—lyrics, writing, sound and performances—will be seen as a form of queer-feminist activism and agency. The main argument developed in the article is that queer-feminist punk countercultural agents do not only engage with queer and feminist politics, as well as academic theory, but also produce queer-feminist political theory—a more or less coherent set of ideas to analyze, explain and counter oppressive social structures, as well as explicit and open violence and oppression.