The Sounds of Queer Justice
The Queer Sounds of Justice: Contemporary Queer Musicking and Transformative Justice in The United States S.M. Gray Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Prerequisite for Honors in Peace and Justice Studies Program April 2012 © 2012, S.M. Gray Table of Contents Acknowledgements _____________________________________ i Introduction: Terminology, Process, and Construction of Narrative ___________________________________________ 1 1. Girlyman’s “Young James Dean”: A Tribute to the Pioneers of the Women’s Music movement__________________ 24 2. Positionality and Activism within Musicking: The Women’s Music movement of 1988__________________________35 3. From Ani DiFranco to Coyote Grace: A Queer and Feminist Blender of Politics, Gender, Genre, Sex, and Desire_______49 4. The Muses of Mustached ElectroLovers: Homos and Queer Punks, Angry Grrrl Feminists, and Lesbionic Dykes____________65 5. Contemporary Queer and Trans(Feminist) Musicking: Technology, Embodiment, Temporality, and Intersectionality__________91 Conclusion: Queer Musicking and A Broader Transformative Justice Framework______________________________117 Bibliography__________________________________________137 Acknowledgements I am so excited to finally be sharing my year-long endeavors with colleagues, friends, and family. It has been a long journey, and I am so grateful to all of you who have helped me along the way. Thank you so much to all of the musicians who have been so supportive through this process: the members of Girlyman, Coyote Grace, Katastrophe, Athens Boys Choir, Grygiel, The Shondes, Lovers, Des Ark, MC Micah, Kera Washington and Zili Musik, and Schmekel. I have been so inspired and supported by all of you through my research, and have learned so much from all of you. Thank you for sharing your sounds and stories with the world. I want to extend a huge thank you to Larry Rosenwald for his calming demeanor, quiet support, outgoing intellectualism, and laidback deadlines.
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