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Sexism in music: “She’s pretty good for a girl”

By Female_identified_musician | Published: January 23, 2013

TweetIt is extremely difficult for a woman to make it in the music industry without sexualising herself. Those of us who refuse to do this have to work extra hard, especially as female musicians get treated as if “girls with guitars” was a genre in itself. A disproportionate amount of women artists are vocalists, because [...]

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Introducing Feminist Playing Cards!

By scantron | Published: March 12, 2012

TweetFeminist Playing Cards is a project being organized by Homoground (a resource for LGBTQ and allied musicians). The custom deck of cards will feature illustrations of 52 feminist musicians drawn by 14 feminist artists. By combining feminist ideas with music and art, we are putting our own stamp on a social activity that has been around since [...]