Jayne County, Laura Jane Grace, and the HerStory of Transgender Punks in America (2024)

Women in Rock Memoirs: Music, History, and Life-Writing

Cristina Garrigós (ed.), Marika Ahonen (ed.)

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2023

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9780197659366

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9780197659328

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Women in Rock Memoirs: Music, History, and Life-Writing

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Karen Fournier

Karen Fournier

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89–105

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    September 2023

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Fournier, Karen, 'Jayne County, Laura Jane Grace, and the HerStory of Transgender Punks in America', in Cristina Garrigós, and Marika Ahonen (eds), Women in Rock Memoirs: Music, History, and Life-Writing (New York, 2023; online edn, Oxford Academic, 21 Sept. 2023), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197659328.003.0006, accessed 10 June 2024.

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Abstract

The recent proliferation of memoirs by female punk musicians has contributed to our understanding of female experiences in a subculture whose history has historically been recounted from the perspective of its male participants. Claims that punk histories are enriched by female voices that have been largely absent, while true, reinforce a gender binary that excludes other important voices from punk’s historical narrative. This chapter explores the contributions to, and challenges faced within, the American punk subculture by two transgender participants whose careers are separated by more than three decades. In her autobiography, the punk pioneer Jayne County recounts how her career was stymied in the 1970s because of her transgender identity, while Laura Jane Grace’s memoir exposes the lingering stigma that she felt within the subculture when she transitioned in 2012. Comparisons between these two accounts of punk raise important questions about inclusion and diversity in a subculture whose DIY ethos purports to empower and embrace all potential participants.

Keywords: gender identity, transgenderism, punk rock, Jayne County, Laura Jane Grace

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Ethnomusicology

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Karen Fournier, Jayne County, Laura Jane Grace, and the HerStory of Transgender Punks in America In: Women in Rock Memoirs. Edited by: Cristina Garrigós and Marika Ahonen, Oxford University Press. © Oxford University Press 2023. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197659328.003.0006

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