Floorgasm: queer(s), solidarity and resilience in punk

Title: Floorgasm: queer(s), solidarity and resilience in punk
Creator: Sharp, Megan; Nilan, Pam
Relation: Emotion, Space and Society Vol. 25, Issue November 2017, p. 71-78
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2017.06.005
Publisher: Elsevier
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2017
Description: This article explores queer(ed) punk scenes, primarily in Australia. Queer ciswomen, transwomen and non-binary people aged 20-30 years are the informants here in a feminist-informed ethnographic study. They were found to engage strategies of resistance against cismale dominance at punk gigs and events in order to claim queer(ed) territory. In brief, they worked collectively to subvert the dominant patriarchal norms in punk spaces. They mobilised community-building through the politics of Do-It-Together (DIT) as a radical reshaping of the traditional punk ethos of DIY (Do-It-Yourself). They also worked to make gigs more queer-affirmative through mobilising the initiative of safe(r) spaces. We map some queer collective resilience in punk to authorise the expression of counter-hegemonic gender identities. The gig outcome was pleasurable queer solidarity enmeshed with music, a kind of metaphysical ‘floorgasm’.
Subject: queer women; punk; DIT; authorisation; safe(r) spaces
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1354932
Identifier: uon:31390
Identifier: ISSN:1755-4586
Language: eng
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