We officially confirmed dates and a primary venue today!Friday, June 6 - Sunday, June 8, 2013
The Rotunda (4014 Walnut Street in West Philadelphia) & elsewhere
email ladyfestphilly@gmail.com with contact info if you want to get on a mailing list for info about meetings / planning / etc, which will start in earnest in August ! schedule your first band practice soon !
We are so excited to be featured alongside a bunch of other amazing organizations in this week’s Time Out NY! Read the feature!
http://www.timeout.com/newyork/things-to-do/sophie-weiner-22?package_id=42848 -
permanent wave is featured in TIME OUT NEW YORK!
Transgender activist Agnes Torres found dead in Puebla, Mexico.
this is the sixth unsolved homicide of an LGBTQ individual in puebla this year. please sign this petition to demand the government there take hate crimes more seriously. click on agnes’ picture to read more about her story.
also, please reblog/repost to spread the word.
hurray, permanent wave now has a website! we’re working on what to put in our very own philly section. stay tuned!
Permanent Wave Philly's second show is this month! -
It’s our second show ever on March 23rd at Cha-cha’razzi — a benefit for Hollaback with Catnaps, Attia Taylor, and more performing. Yay! Feel free to reblog and spread the word!
Judy Berman: Please submit to my fun/painful zine/book project, and also reblog. -
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
It’s Complicated: Feminists Write About the Misogynist Art We Love
ed. Judy Berman and Niina Pollari
“Listening to the Sex Pistols, trying to figure out if ‘Bodies’ was really an antiabortion song, I discovered that it was something even worse. It was an outburst of loathing…
Erica's review of the MEN Permanent Wave show on Sadie Magazine! -
hi tumblr folks!
permanent wave philly is currently figuring out our second and third and other future shows but need some help! have you been wanting to get involved with permanent wave but weren’t sure how? well here’s your chance! yay!
-are you in a band that has at least one female member, “feminist sensibilities”, and would want to play one of our shows? do you know any bands that would?
-do you want to help out with stuff like selling merch and working the door at our shows (we’ll give you an awesome permanent wave button and zine)?
-are you a decent/accomplished baker and want to bring baked goods for us to sell at a show?
-are you involved in/know of any sort of feminist organizations that would like to either table at/be the recipients of one of our benefit shows? (think like girls rock philly, hollaback, etc.)
-do you know of any upcoming events that permanent wave should help sponsor/have a presence at?
-are you some sort of artist/musician/restaurant/what have you that could donate something to us to give away in a raffle?
-do you have an awesome idea for some type of event or project with a feminist edge—music, art, film, reading, etc.?
-have you thought of something else or some other way you’d like to get involved?
then CONTACT US at permanentwavephilly@gmail.com!
we’re open to all sorts of ideas and suggestions. we’d especially love people that would be interested in attending/helping run meetings and whatnot.
*please feel free to reblog this to spread the word!*
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When I heard the news, the first thing that came to mind was the murder to Mia Zapata from the Gits. The similarities stood out to me—a woman walking home late at night—Esme from a party, Mia from a bar, the way the two women loved music and used it both to inform and to uplift, and the seemingly random nature of the crime. Except neither crime was as random as we’d like to think. In fact, Esme’s killer attacked two other women that same evening. Mia’s killer had a history of violence against women, including battery, assault, and domestic abuse. Violence against women and girls is endemic in this country and if we think we’re safer now in 2012 than we were in 1993, when Mia was killed, then we’re only deluding ourselves. If we want to honor Esme’s memory, we should try our best to stop violence against women in our communities. A woman who gave so much of herself to others, working with special needs kids as well as young musicians, deserves the kind of memory where you do something, instead of just standing by. This year, when I watch the girls learning how to punch and kick in self-defense class at Girls Rock Camp, I will think of Esme, and how empowering young girls is not just a theoretical framework for feminist thought; it’s a survival tactic. We hope that someday, we’ll have the power to save every girl’s life. I didn’t know Esme personally, but from what I’ve read on the internet, “Esme got it. She knew rock and roll was eternal. As long as we’ve got the sound, we’ll never lose her.” -Alyx Vesey. I’d like to add that the kind of supportive, really positive feminism that volunteering at Rock Camp instills in us will continue as well, and that whenever we teach self-defense, or offer to walk a female friend home late at night, or stand by watching just to make sure a drunk guy shouting at his girlfriend on the street doesn’t hit her, or comfort someone who’s been hurt, we are honoring someone’s memory.
Our first show to benefit Girls Rock Philly w/ Trophy Wife, Carmen, The Adults, Very Happy, and Nona! Check the Facebook event, invite your friends and RSVP!