We were considered a female band before we became merely a band I was a female guitarist and Janet was a female drummer for years before we were simply considered a guitarist and a drummer. The notion of “female” should be so sprawling and complex that it becomes divorced from gender itself. Instead, we wanted to expand the notion of what it means to be female. “We were never trying to deny our femaleness. Carrie Brownstein – Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl.This is my story.“ (Lily Allen – My Thoughts Exactly) When women share their stories, loudly and clearly and honestly, things begin to change – for the better. „a collection of stories about different women such as Dolly Parton, Taylor Swift, Patti Smith, Tina Turner, Stevie Nicks…“ Here She Comes Now: Women in Music Who Have Changed Our Lives.„a collection of interviews with great women in music like Nadine Shah, Chris(tine & the Queens), Emma the Great, Maggie Rogers and many others.“ „In über 100 lehrreichen, kurzweiligen und persönlichen Texten schreiben Journalistinnen und Journalisten, Musikerinnen und Musiker, Fans und Freunde über Bands, die sie prägten, über Künstlerinnen, die den Feminismus eine neue Facette gaben, über Lieblingsplatten, Lebenswerke und Lieder, die sie mitgrölen – vom Klassiker bis zum Außenseitertipp.“

Juliane Streich (Hg.) – These Girls – Ein Streifzug durch die feministische Musikgeschichte (German only).It contains story after story about men who told her she couldn’t do things that she did anyway.“ (The New York Times) Albertine’s book is wiry and cogent and fearless. Viv Albertine – Clothes, Clothes, Clothes, Music, Music, Music, Boys, Boys,Boys.everyone knows about the sometimes aggressive and manipulative ways men often exert power in the world, and how by using the word empowered to describe women, men are simply maintaining their own power and control.” (Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band) “Every woman knows what I’m talking about when I say girls grow up with a desire to please, to cede their power to other people. „a thoughtful, occasionally scathing memoir that recounts her formative years in Sonic Youth, her relationship with Moore, the birth of her daughter, and the origins of her art practice.“ (The New Yorker) Die letzten Tage des Patriarchats – Margarete Stokowski.Invisible Women – Exposing Data Bias in a World designed for Men – Caroline Criado Perez.Ein N**** darf nicht neben mir sitzen: Eine deutsche Geschichte – David Mayonga mit Nils Frenzel.Eure Heimat ist unser Albtraum – Fatma Aydemir, Hengameh Yaghoobifarah.Warum ich nicht länger mit Weissen über Hautfarbe spreche – Reni-Eddo-Lodge.Was weiße Menschen nicht über Rassismus hören wollen aber wissen sollten – Alice Hasters.

Ich bin Linus by Linus Giese