Perimenopunk
By: Michelle Cruz Gonazles
Publisher: the author
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Oakland, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 12
Subjects: Perimenopause; Punk culture; Mexican American women; Hispanic American women; Menopause
Description: Feminist and punk musician (Spitboy) Michell Cruz Gonzales writes about her relationship with punk rock, going through perimenopause, and experiencing racism in the writing community, and other topics. Gonzales's ever-evolving relationship with punk is long and complex; she began playing in punk rock bands at the age of 15, and spent many years as a drummer in various girl bands. Eventually, Gonzales gave up playing punk rock, got married, went to graduate school, and had a son. She is now a writer and professor at a community college. Though the course of Gonzales's life changed when she stopped playing, she believes that she never truly left punk in the first place. Though she is a wife and mother going through perimenopause, Gonzales argues that she can still fully embody the punk values that characterized her youth. – Alekhya
Notes: Title from cover.