Queer punx: young women in the Newcastle hardcore space

Sharp, Megan; Nilan, Pam

doi:10.1080/13676261.2014.963540

Cited by 8 publications

(3 citation statements)

References 37 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…The narrative of the participant above features her finding her belonging in Kazakhstani punk subculture. The connection between queer and punk has been previously discussed in many studies, predominantly originating from the Global North (for example, Halberstam, 2003;Sharp & Nilan, 2015). Halberstam (2003) points out that punk can be seen as creating its own community through exclusion from and rejection of dominant societal norms.…”

Section: Negotiating Queer Childhoodmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘I Thought I'd Kill Myself When I Grew Up’: Queer Childhood Narratives in Kazakhstan

Levitanus

2023

The Emerald Handbook of Childhood and Youth in Asian Societies

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Recent years have seen the development of new approaches to the study of gender and sexuality in childhood, with attention given to socio-historical, cultural and political contexts. This chapter aims to contribute towards a limited field of research on queer childhood and youth in Central Asia by considering how narratives of queer childhood in Kazakhstan are culturally produced. This chapter draws on the material from in-depth interviews of 11 queer people living in Kazakhstan, focussing on their narratives of childhood. The study exposes the effect of silence about non-heteronormative identities in Kazakhstan on queer children. Narratives of bullying and managing school violence are explored along with narratives of queer childhood within the families of origin. Lastly, the chapter foregrounds instances of agency and resilience, considering how queer children manage to steer themselves away from being an 'impossible subject' and contest dominant societal attitudes and discourses.

show abstract

Section: Negotiating Queer Childhoodmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘I Thought I'd Kill Myself When I Grew Up’: Queer Childhood Narratives in Kazakhstan

Levitanus

2023

The Emerald Handbook of Childhood and Youth in Asian Societies

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…If the hegemonic masculine view seeks man's pleasure, a queer view questions any expression taken as 'normal' and emphasises the transformability of identities. Sharp and Nilan (2015) analyse queer as an umbrella term for LGBTQI+ minorities to produce counter-spaces of existence and resistance. Thus, artistic interventions are made in the geographies and at the heart of the experiences of the disenfranchised and dispossessed to subvert homogenous stigmatising narratives and achieve new heights of decolonised social and spatial justice (Kilomba, 2020).…”

Section: Does the Liberation Of The Earth Imply The Liberation Of Women?mentioning

confidence: 99%

DIY, fanzines and ecofeminism in the Global South: ‘This city is my sister’

Guerra

2023

DIY, Alternative Cultures & Society

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In late modernity, artistic-social movements play a central role in renewing societal processes. This article aims to understand how the do-it-yourself (DIY) ethos builds bridges of understanding for these challenges, taking the artistic practice of fanzine production of Fernanda Meireles as a starting point. Based on a qualitative methodology, we analyse Meirele's use of a DIY ethos and practice, contextualised within ecofeminism, the Anthropocene and the Phallocene, as well as in the city of Fortaleza, Brazil, where Meireles resides. Through a DIY lens, we highlight the perspectives that favour the resignification of urban spaces in new territorialities, giving rise to new ways of relating to the city and criticising or contesting it using an ecofeminist perspective of (re)existence in the face of the Anthropocene and the Phallocene.

show abstract

“…In addition to scholarly work analysing punk and gender there has been a significant body of literature more recently which explores gender and sexuality within punk (Sharp, 2019; Sharp & Nilan, 2015, 2017). Despite this, there remains a lack of literature on ‘post-youth’ punk women, with research focusing predominantly on punk girls/women in their teenage years or twenties.…”

Section: Punk Youth Gendermentioning

confidence: 99%

Punk is just a state of mind: Exploring what punk means to older punk women

Way

2020

The Sociological Review

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

What does punk mean to older punk women? And how are such understandings interwoven with experiences of ageing and gender? The complexity in defining punk has been noted and it has been suggested that this complexity in part results from punk’s dislike of being labelled/categorised. Drawing upon interviews with 22 self-identifying older punk women, this article considers how they conceived punk as ‘a state of mind’, exploring the four shared punk values seen to comprise this: DIY, subversion, political consciousness and community. An unpacking of these values in terms of what they might ‘look like’ and how they are put into action by the women highlights the considerable roles ageing and gender play.

show abstract

Queer punx: young women in the Newcastle hardcore space

Cited by 8 publications

References 37 publications

‘I Thought I'd Kill Myself When I Grew Up’: Queer Childhood Narratives in Kazakhstan

‘I Thought I'd Kill Myself When I Grew Up’: Queer Childhood Narratives in Kazakhstan

DIY, fanzines and ecofeminism in the Global South: ‘This city is my sister’

Punk is just a state of mind: Exploring what punk means to older punk women

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About