Kleenex for Breakfast: First Wave Punk, 21st Century Social Justice and Why Both Matter Today

• In Event: Poster Sessions

Abstract

The sociopolitical aspects of first wave punk in Great Britain, and its involvement of women and women of color in a society that was especially stifling and hostile to the latter, bears great importance to social justice today. Its impact on bands such as Pussy Riot and their own sociopolitical impact on feminism in turn, coupled with studies on the prominence of social media in activism, shows why the fusing of punk’s legacies, social media and collective political action is needed in an increasingly dire political climate.

Presenter

• Lea Tsamardinos, State University of New York, Albany