By Leilani ClarkKQEDApril 10th, 2016 I first saw the East Bay feminist hardcore band Spitboy in 1993. I remember the…
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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…
Liberation Land: Spitboy in the Daily Iowan
By Tessa SolomonDaily IowanJune 23rd, 2016 The camera shakes, capturing in its grainy frame four women on a dimly lit…
Spitboy Rule Reviewed in Fourth & Sycamore
By David NilsenFourth & SycamoreJune 2016 Spitboy, an all-female punk/hardcore band active in the first half of the 1990s, were…
The Spitboy Rule: A Review—The Story of Feminism in 33 songs
by Kate WadkinsPitchforkAugust 2016 “What Are Little Girls Made Of?” (1995) When Spitboy penned the title of this sludgy, dissonant…
The Spitboy Rule: A Review
by June SawyersBooklistJuly 21st, 2016 Not your typical punk band, Spitboy was ahead of its time, a feminist band that…
Xicana Women Claim Their Rightful Place In Punk
by Nina Melissa BautistaThe EstablishmentJune 30th, 2016 Spitboy, an all-female punk/hardcore band active in the first half of the 1990s,…