I just got done with "Footnote" by Boff from Chumbawamba and am starting "The Story Of Crass" by Gerard Berger. It's mostly research. But it's fun.

I'm reading "Pretty in Punk: Girls' Gender Resistance in a Boys' Subculture".

It's an academic work by (former?) punk Lauraine LeBlanc and I've just started.

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i would be curious to learn what the conclusions of Pretty in Punk are. I note 8 people in this group have Beauty Myth -- you would do as well with Robin Lakoff and Rachel Scherr's (sp?) Face Value written 20 years before. I am afraid NW contributed almost nothing to the field -- some day i may do my own Accident of Beauty . . .

LeBlanc? Is there a punk cagen? You know they do file down the bridges of those fiddles to bow three strings at once (which made it hard for me to follow on my free-tension one string.

Seriously, humdao, if you are studying beauty and are a serious reader, i have an essay i'd like to bounce off of you.

And, finally -- i am an author-publisher in search of people skilled in what Emerson called creative reading. Self-produced music is accepted today but books are another story. Plese peek at my paraverse.org (at least newbooks and the paraversing pages, i guess) and see if anything looks good for indie . . . Or, seeing that "What are you reading?" ended after 2 entries, do the indie folk not read, in which case i am barkiung up the wrong tree?

Manifesta: Young Women, feminism, and the future, by Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards. I've just started it and it's pretty good so far, it's just starting to get into the basics. I started to read Pretty in Punk and have yet to finish it.

ah manifesta! i bought that for my sister for a future Christmas gift.

currently i'm in the middle of sex drugs and cocoa puffs. it's pretty funny and is living up to the hype.

Heya,

I'm currently reading "Helter Skelter".
I really want to read "The Story of Crass" but alas the library does not hold it... nor any of the libraries in the province. I just noticed how old these messages are! Oh well! Perhaps you guys are still making trips on here..