The Punk Singer Page #2

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So, I did this thing that

juxtaposed the images of the.

women and then this picture of.

...the little girl in this, like...

...portrait, and it said, "pretend.

...you like it" on her, and then it.

...said, "believe you like

it" on the housewives.

Because my work was censored

from the college, we started an.

...art gallery in, like, an old

garage, and it was called.

...reko muse, and it was, like, a.

...feminist art space that me

and my friends started.

I think we were coming into

a really heightened level of.

...awareness, in terms of feminism.

...and sexist

representation of women.

A really very clear memory I

have of Kathleen showing me a.

...copy of a copy of an article.

...from time magazine...

"is feminism dead?"

We both got really emotional...

...like it couldn't be dead

because we were living it.

We were doing it and

thinking it and feeling it.

You know, how could it be dead?

I was working on a project...

...fashion show, where I made all.

...the clothes for a fashion show...

...and I silk-screened all these.

...fabrics and stuff,

using photography.

And I was working late at night.

...in the lab, and while I was at

work, my best friend, she was.

...assaulted at our house.

She went in her room and fell.

...asleep, and she woke up, and he

was standing in her doorway.

He grabbed her by the neck, and.

...he started dragging

her up the stairs.

And he was saying sh*t like...

"I'm gonna rape you, then

I'm gonna kill you. "

And she was actually

a music major.

It was the first time she was

writing her own symphony.

And she told me that when she.

was on the stairs, she thought,

"I'm gonna finish my f***ing.

...symphony," and she just flipped.

...out and just, like, punched him

and got loose and got away.

And I came home, and she

was, like, all beat up.

I was like, "I have to make

sure this never happens again. "

I made a dress that said, "as he.

...drug her upstairs by her neck. "

I didn't even want to finish...

...but she was like, "you

have to finish it. "

So, I ended up making... That.

...project was just about me being

able to finish something.

And then I realized in the.

...middle of it, it wasn't

just about that.

It was, I had to take this

thing that had happened to my.

...friend... it had affected me

... And put it into my work.

I couldn't keep it out.

Like, it was just totally

impossible for me to keep it out.

I mean, I remember the first

time I saw her, it was like...

"who is this person that she.

...just has, like, this

commanding presence?"

She's just like, "yes, I'm doing.

...a fashion show in the

library building. "

You know what I mean?

It was like, "we're only 18,"

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