#diy punk
In Issue #17, our Associate Editor Jaclyn Jermyn sat down with PWR BTTM to discuss gender, inclusion, and how to navigate queer identity.
July 9th, 2016: the Bottom Lounge, Chicago
“A handful of queers from Massachusetts walk into the green room of a venue named the Bottom Lounge—stop me if you’ve heard this one before. While this joke might essentially write itself, the punch line is a little harder to pin down. The punch line is PWR BTTM.
The ambiguous genre-shifting duo, comprised of Ben Hopkins and Liv Bruce—they/them pronouns please—met while attending Bard College. PWR BTTM have often been labeled queer punk by media outlets, and while certainly queer, the punk tagline is something they sometimes shrug their shoulders at. “But what is punk, you know?” says Hopkins. One could offer a Wikipedia definition, but it boils down to an example of counter-culture. Just like the house shows that the three of us spent our formative years hanging out at, PWR BTTM shows are bursting at the seams with symbols of what our society has deemed as a rejection of social normativity.
Their influences are all over the map because as they note, everything is a little bit of a performance and performance makes for great inspiration. Bruce takes cues from their dance background and loves choreographers that put a raw, bleeding edge into their work. Hopkins has a list of influential drag queens a mile long—they both admit to listening to RuPaul’s Drag Race in the car while they drive from venue to venue on tour.”
Read the whole spread in Issue #17 here: https://issuu.com/hooliganmag/docs/issue17
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ThanksRazorcake for the kind words about Ben Passmore’s “Goodbye” comic.
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Silver Sprocket will be at Small Press Expo, Sept 17-18 in Bethesda, with new thrash from Ben Passmore,Jenn Woodall,Michael Sweater,The Degenderettes, and definitely not any secret hotel-room tattoos. Rachel Dukes,Meg Has Issues, and a bunch of As You Were contributors will be there too! Come at me, table M1.
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The San Francisco Zine Fest is this Sunday in Golden Gate Park. It’s FREE ADMISSION with hundreds of the most exciting DIY comic and zine creators presenting their latest. Find us at Silver Sprocket table 233-236 with Rachel DukesandAndy Warner. There will be NO FUCKING HAIRCUTS this year. Someone bring a pinata full of pancake mix.
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Three enamel pins by Jenn Woodall inspired by her Magic Beatdown comics will debut at the SPX Small Press Expo, with a limited pre-order going live this next Tuesday. http://store.silversprocket.net/pins
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“The War On Drugs” is an immoral nightmare. “Our Best Shot” is a new comic detailing a top secret and illegal Supervised Injection Facility in the United States. Debuting this weekend from our table at the San Francisco Zine Fest, or mail-order now from http://store.silversprocket.net/zines
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Cometbus 57 is up in our shop, chock full of insightful interviews with important NYC comics figures Gabrielle Bell,Robin Enrico,Jeffrey Lewis,Julia Wertz,Bill Kartalopoulos,Gary Panter,Adrian Tomine,Ben Katchor,Paul Levitz,Drew Friedman,Karen Green,Gabe Fowler,Kim Deitch, and Al Jaffee.
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“Years ago Amanda Kirk gave me permission to use her design for a tattoo…. it finally happened.” - Geoff McNulty
Art by Nation of Amanda,http://store.silversprocket.net/amanda
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Sweat magicians Larry and His Flask are going on tour with the legendary Fishbone, dance your guts out.
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Pick up the new Maximum Rocknroll “Art Issue” for an interview with Ben Passmore spelling it out about Daygloayhole, Goodbye, Your Black Friend and Spawn
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We’ll be at the Small Press Expo in Bethesda, MD, all weekend (table M1) with Ben PassmoreandMichael Sweater. Way too many buds and heroes will be all around us being inspirational in every direction, seriously visit everyone. Here’s a helpful map of essential Silver Sprocket pals, don’t ding dong goof!
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