We are Doll Chaser! We're an all trans punk band from Minnesota and we are so excited to share what we've been cooking!
Our first release of singles, titled together as Living The Dream, releases on Friday January 5th! Pre-save on Spotify now, and keep your eyes open on every other major streaming platform
Black women should be allowed to be as femme as much we want and however we want
We can be indie,pastel,punk,kidcore,classical,scene,goth,gamers and any other style and/or subculture we want that's not inherently rooted in blackness by itself but that we put our spin on to make it connected to our black womanhood and we're awesome for it
This also extends to our personalities.We should be allowed to be bubbly and soft and kiddy and chaotic and unshamedly weird and hopeless romantics and high maintenance without having our blackness doubted since blk women like us have always existed and we always will
It's extremely out of pocket to say we're 'acting white' for it,especially when there's some parts of these that were INVENTED by black women and is real bold coming from cisdudes who do things like calling us fake fans because they think we don't know what any media and need to educated by them so we can reward them by dating them and this all goes quadruple for black trans femmes,be we transmasc or transfem or multigender or nonbinary
But it's ALSO super true that:
Black women are allowed to be butch as much as they want and however they want
They're an extremely important part of not only black history but also wlw history in general and have been one of the most important groups in our community since forever along with blk trans women.They also face significantly worse discrimination than us femmes(No,i'm not making it a competition,i'm saying it as a fact)
Studs/Masc bi bw can be just like us personality ways or the direct opposite or somewhere inbetween and they're all cool as fuck and deserve good things and our love and protection like they give to us.They deserve our full support in cases where they're not cis too that,again,they also give us
Butch black women and femme black women rarely are the ones actually causing this infighting and instead it's nonblacks gossiping and trying to divide us.There is definitely some problems in our community but it's only a small part and we can't let them influence us with their bullshit nor let them keep platforming without calling it out and it's all of our responsibilities to love and protect eachother in a world that hates of regardless of what we're individually like.Remember that in cases like mine where you're not full black we should use our privilege to our advantage to fight against misogynoir towards ALL of us but that monoracial black women have always had it the worst and they've given us everything so we should do the same
I think if you're told punk is a subculture based on improving society,helping people,learning to live how you want instead of conforming to anybody's standards and being anti-harmful/bad/bigoted things directly instead of playing possum and that you're a poser if you don't follow through on it because you only want the aesthetic,you call that punk a 'gatekeeper',you're a huge loser and a really bad person tbh
Red Scare Celebrates 20 Years With Laura Jane Grace, The Menzingers, Dead To Me, Cobra Skulls, Nothington, No Trigger And Many More
Chicago punk label Red Scare Industries just released a special compilation of songs of current artists and alumni to celebrate their 20th anniversary. 20 Years Of Dreaming And Scheming features brand new tracks from The Menzingers, Laura Jane Grace, Dead To Me, The Falcon, Cobra Skulls, The Holy Mess, Nothington, No Trigger, Sam Russo, Sludgeworth, The Brokedowns, The Bollweevils, Elway, The…