Early Photographs Of Women In Punk From Between The Late 1970s And Early 1990s

Riot grrrls performing. Washington, DC, 1992. Photo by Pat Graham.

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Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth at Maxwell’s. Hoboken, New Jersey, 1984. Photo by Dave Rick.

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Neo Boys, likely Portland’s first all-girl punk group. Portland, Oregon, 1981. Photo by K Saul.

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Dancing to the Big Boys. Houston, 1980. Photo by Ben Tecumseh DeSoto.

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Gillian Elam of Bi-Joopiter, 1989.

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Ari Up of the Slits, 1979. Photo by Graham Macindoe.

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Bikini Kill, 1993. Photo by Pat Graham.

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Bodysnatchers, 1980. Photo by Neil Anderson.

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Skinned Teen, 1983. Photo by Greg Neate.

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Strawberry Switchblade, 1982. Photo by Peter McArthur.

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Lunachicks, 1989. Photo by Joe Dilworth.

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Two women during the Revolution Summer in Washington DC, 1985 – an upswell of activism against the violence and sexism in the US punk scene Photo by Lloyd Wolf.

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