People often ask what I'm up to when not busy ruling over this beauty parlor. In a word: writing. There's my ongoing, mysterious (even to me) Andrea Dworkin thing (detailed here in conversation with author and Seagull VIP Emily Gould) and then there are a few things I recently had published around town:
1. I recall Le Tigre's early days abhoring Giuliani and making electronic music in the RBMA daily note here ("The mayor was the perfect nemesis, an arrogant fucker who enraged us not only with his cruel policies and despicable cronyism, but also with every snide word and smug gesture"). Or here with embedded videos!
2. I talk about my Riot Grrrl, pre-Le Tigre days in Lisa Darms's new book The Riot Grrrl Collection ("As a teen, it astounded me to discover that girls were organizing to fight their exclusion and silencing, and that they were doing it with intoxicating subcultural style"). You can read my essay on the Paper Magazine site, but to read my weird zine about Artaud and any number of incendiary feminist punk documents from the 1990s you are just going to have to get this great book. Oh, and there's a conversation with Lisa, Kathleen Hanna, Sheila Heti, and me here on the Bookforum site.
3. I wrote about a show at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens called "Spectacle: the Music Video" for Artforum ("Women constitute a lot of the spectacle but get very few directors' credits.) I don't think it's online but you can always read AF at the salon!
And I think that's all for now. Love, Johanna
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