By Arielle BurgdorfMaximum RockNRollJanuary 2017 I was probably 14 or 15 when I first discovered Spitboy on a mix from…
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Iconic Drummer Michelle Gonzales and the Xicana Resistance of Riot Grrrl: A Review
By Michelle Threadgould RemezclaFebruary 29, 2016 “Kiss the freak, faggot,” spat Travis at my friend David and me. Travis was the ringleader of the…
Michelle Gonzales Cruz’s Memoir The Spitboy Rule
by Robyn TakayamaLa RazaMarch 28th, 2016 When Michelle Cruz Gonzales read excerpts from The Spitboy Rule: Tales of a Xicana…
#LatinoLit Review – The Spitboy Rule: Tales of a Xicana in a Female Punk Band by Michelle Cruz González
By Charlie VázquezLatino RebelsApril 1, 2016 This slim and mean volume of punk memoir brought me back to my years…
Message First: Author and Spitboy Drummer Michelle Cruz Gonzales on Punk, Privilege and Perimenopause
by Karin SpinHip Mama From 1990 to 1995, Michelle Gonzales toured the world as the drummer of Spitboy, a feminist…
The Struggles and Victories of a Xicana Woman in a Hardcore Band
By Leilani ClarkKQEDApril 10th, 2016 I first saw the East Bay feminist hardcore band Spitboy in 1993. I remember the…
Feministing Reads: The Spitboy Rule: Tales of Xicana in a Female Punk Band
by Chanelle AdamsFeministingApril 25th, 2106 Many of us have dreamt of starting a badass girl band. Few of us have…
Michelle Gonzales’s New Memoir Details Punk History Through a Xicana Feminist Perspective
by Sara CenturyBitch MagazineMay 10th, 2016 Gonzales’s new memoir illuminates that seldom-spoken time in punk history when Nirvana was not…
The Spitboy Rule Mixtape
by Nancy David-KhoMidlife MixtapeMay 12th, 2016 Michelle Gonzales and I met when we were castmates in the 2013 Listen To…
Revisiting Spitboy and Talking Punk Memoirs with Michelle Cruz Gonzales
By Tobias Carroll Vol. 1 BrooklynJune 16th, 2016 I never got a chance to see Spitboy, the band in which…