Radical cheerleaders need your help: fwd widely

Dearest Ladyfest,

Radical Cheerleading is often a part of workshops and performances at Ladyfests across the world and we were hoping for some help through your vast networks to get the word out about our project to document the last 10 years of Radical Cheerleading. Could you please post the following information on your myspace and/or pass the “call for submissions for the Radical Cheerleading Anthology” on to all those that you may think would be interested. Our first deadline for submissions is June 1st and is approaching fast.
If you have any suggestions on how to get more publicity and involvement in our book through feminist networks we would most appreciate your advice. look fwd to your response.
thanks so much.
cheers, brackin firecracker, jeanne vaccaro, aimee and cara jennings
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blasts from pasts

the selecter, “three minute hero” (too much pressure, 1980)

joan jett, “bad reputation” (bad reputation, 1981)

phranc, “bloodbath” (i enjoy being a girl, 1989)

l7, “mr. integrity” (bricks are heavy, 1992)

bratmobile, “cool schmool” (pottymouth, 1993)

cibo matto, “sugar water” (viva! la woman, 1996)

ani difranco, “in or out” (living in clip, 1997)

(later) riot grrrl stuff

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deerhoof, “this magnificent bird will rise” (reveille, 2002)

sleater-kinney, “entertain” (the woods, 2005)

+ live version:

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“girl monster” compilation from chainsaw records!
***A massive triple-CD celebration of the alternative history and future of women’s creative audio output. You get sixty-one boundary-pushing tracks that run from the original girl monsters of punk through the 1990s riot grrls to contemporary tricksters and electro-rock pranksters.

TRACKLISTING

CD ONE

1. Girlmonster Intro
2. Scream Club Vs. Ben Adorable Feat. Peaches – Fine As Fuck
3. Mignon – Demons Of Love
4. Le Tigre – Hot Topic
5. Barbara Morgenstern – Mountain Place
6. Angie Reed – G. G. (Gaudy Good)
7. Pam Hogg – Honeyland
8. Rhythm King And Her Friends – Speedometer
9. Hanin Elias – Get It Back
10. Kevin Blechdom – Me Saw Me Momma
11. Ana da Silva – Full Moon
12. Anat Ben David – Virtual Leisure
13. Sir Alice – Super Hero
14. Chicks On Speed – Plastic Surgery
15. Vivien Goldman – Launderette
16. Tina Weymouth – Incognito
17. Client – Down To The Underground
18. Kids On TV – Break Dance Hunx (Market Value Mix)
19. Boyskout – School Of Etiquette
20. Erase Errata – Dust
21. No Bra – No Woman No Crime

CD TWO

1. Pulsallama – Ungawa Pt. 2 Remix
2. The Slits – Typical Girls (Live)
3. Delta 5 – Mind Your Own Business
4. Cherry Sunkist – Nameless Dogs
5. Japanese Intelligence Mind Control – Get The Picture
6. Autonervous – Anchors Away
7. Cobra Killer – Mr. Chang
8. Planningtorock – Changes
9. Hanayo – Pita Pata
10. Björk – Storm
11. Tobi Vail – Panic Of The Square
12. Gustav – We Shall Overcome
13. Bonnie Vs. Hunter – Our Inventions
14. Françoise Cactus – You Can’t Put Your Arms Around A Memory
15. LiliPUT – Die Matrosen
16. Katastrophe – Your Girlfriend
17. Lesbians On Ecstasy – Sedition
18. Electric Indigo & Dorit Chrysler – Sheets
19. Cosey Fanni Tutti – Licking The Juice

CD THREE

1. Hotel Motel – Sucker Man
2. Gudrun Gut – Girl Boogie
3. The Creatures – Godzilla (Siouxsie And Budgie’s Girl Monster Mix)
4. Soffy O – Maybe A Dog
5. Ella Bandita – New Year’s Eve
6. Las Perras Del Infierno – Somos Las Perras
7. Juliette And The Licks – You’re Speaking My Language
8. Miss Le Bomb – Pinkitan
9. Cat5 – Sexy
10. Robots In Disguise – Get RID!
11. People Like Us – Fom Fom
12. Michaela Melián – Manifesto
13. Susanne Brokesch – Heroes (History Mix)
14. Scream Club Vs. Leonard DeLeonard – International
15. Crystal Cookie – Crystal Cookie (Lesson 1)
16. Caro Snatch – Say Trees
17. Malaria! – Your Turn To Run
18. The Raincoats – Shouting Out Loud
19. Vivien Goldman w/ Andy Caine & Manasseh Sound – Seven Days
20. Ari Up – Baby Mother (Toxicgirl Strip Mix)
21. Miss Pain – Sell It 2 The Kids (Megaphone Version)

hot topic

le tigre, “hot topic” (le tigre, 1999) – the song that lists some names of kick-ass artists and activists any feminist should know:

Hot topic is the way that we rhyme
Hot topic is the way that we rhyme
One step behind the drum style
One step behind the drum style

Carol Rama
and Eleanor Antin
Yoko Ono and Carolee Schneeman
You’re getting old, that’s what they’ll say, but
Don’t give a damn I’m listening anyway

Stop, we won’t stop
I can’t live if you stop
So don’t you stop

Gretchen Phillips and Cibo Matto
Leslie Feinberg and Faith Ringgold
Mr. Lady, Laura Cottingham
Mab Segrest and The Butchies, man
Don’t stop

And we won’t stop
I can’t live if you stop
Don’t you stop

So many roads and so much opinion
So much shit to give in, give in to
So many rules and so much opinion
So much bullshit but we won’t give in

Stop, we won’t stop
I can’t live if we stop
We won’t stop

Tammy Rae Carland and Sleater-Kinney
Vivienne Dick and Lorraine O’Grady
Gayatri Spivak and Angela Davis
Laurie Weeks and Dorothy Allison

Stop, we won’t you stop
I can’t live if we stop
So don’t you stop

Gertrude Stein, Marlon Riggs, Billie Jean King, Ut, DJ Cuttin Candy, David Wojnarowicz, Melissa York, Nina Simone, Ann Peebles, Tammy Hart, The Slits, Hanin Elias, Hazel Dickens, Cathy Sissler, Shirley Muldowney, Urvashi Vaid, Valie Export, Cathy Opie, James Baldwin, Diane Dimassa, Ani Difranco, Aretha Franklin, Joan Jett, Mia X, Krystal Wakem, Kara Walker, Justin Bond, Bridget Irish, Juliana Lueking, Cecilia Dougherty, Ariel Skrag, The Need, Vaginal Creme Davis, Alice Gerard, Billy Tipton, Julie Doucet, Yayoi Kusama, Eileen Myles

Oh no no no don’t stop stop