I don’t give a damn about… my bad reputation 1975 15 year old Joan Larkin forms the first ever all girl rock and roll band She changes her name to Joan Jett and The Runaways become 4th biggest selling band in the world, with riots of adoring teenage fans worldwide, except in USA where Jett’s relationship with lead singer Cherie Currie provokes newspaper reports that they are child abusers. In reality, Cherie is being psychologically and sexually abused by the band’s “director”, Kim Foley She crashes out of the band after an abortion, having developed full blown alcoholism She is not yet 18 years old Joan Jett stands up to Foley. She is hardworking and innovative. Her influence changes rock forever. She will come to be known as the ‘Godmother of Punk’ …and 23 record companies reject her. She is told “Pretty up. Get a tit job…and lose the guitar, girls can’t play” Jett creates her own independent record label. She is the first ever woman to own a record company and a pioneer of the Indie music industry. She takes her new band on the road, selling records from the back of a car. And NO TIT JOB! “I Love Rock n Roll” makes ♯1 for seven weeks…2 years after Jett first recorded it with The Sex Pistols 1980s “Then it's the blue ones who can't “The Feminist Sex Wars” accept The green ones for living with Jett’s music challenges gender The black ones, tryin' to be a skinny inequalities as she sings about one seducing a 17 year old male She also sings about seducing, and being seduced by, women She outrages “sex negative” feminists by writing songs about polyamory and BDSM. They call her “an enslaved Barbie doll” To “sex positive” feminists she is something even more vacuous and less tolerable You love me, you hate me You know me and then BISEXUAL Still can't figure out the scene I'm in. I am everyday people” To g et h er Consider the impact in the lives of your GSD clients of • Standing Up to Bullies (or not) • Rejection • Lack of Role Models • Breaking the Rules • Exposure to Gossip and Rumour • Too Much Too Young • Scrutiny and Judgment from Others • Under and/or Over Achievement • Being Pathologised • Insularity of Minority Communities • Minority Normativity How do these dynamics show up in your clients’ presentations? .