I am super excited and honoured that some small pieces of my own punk history are featured in the new exhibition Grrrl Germs: Feminism Goes Viral, curated by Astria Suparak.

The exhibition runs until Sunday 29 November at the Great Park Gallery in Irvine, and is free to attend. It also featured at the inaugural Daisy Chain Fields festival.

If you (unlike me) happen to be in California, you can see displays that include posters from three gigs we played with my old band Not Right: Ladiyfest Sheffield in 2013, the Riot Grrrl Valentine’s Ball in Brighton, 2014 (with our friends Big Joanie, among others), and Revolt #7 in Coventry, 2014.

The latter poster was one of several I designed for Revolt, a feminist club night which ran in Coventry from 2012-2017 – I was part of the organising collective along with Not Right guitarist Kirsty Lohman. It features an image of Beverley Ishmael, drummer for The Tuts, who headlined that gig. You can see a bit of this poster in the top left corner of the super cool flyer for Grrrl Germs!

I say this is part of “my” personal history, but the really great thing about the exhibition from what I have seen is that it explores feminist punk as a collective activity: something that so many of us have done together, across the world and over the decades. I think that’s a very beautiful thing. Here’s to our shared pasts, and the futures we are still building together.