Documenting queer punk scenes in Texas and beyond
Join us for the virtual release of punk historian David Ensminger’s video production
Queer Punk Breakout. Down-to-earth and punk in spirit, this DIY-style video traces queer spaces and personalities from punk to hardcore; the rise of queercore and out-punk in the 1990s; and millennial LGBTIQ+ punk developments.
This video will be released on September 23, 2020 at 10AM CST. Please register in advance at the link below to receive the video link upon release.
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We invite you to also join us on Sunday, September 27 at 1PM CST for a conversation with David Ensminger and
Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution Filmmaker Yony Leyser. Click
here for more information.
David Ensminger is a Humanities, Folklore, and English Instructor at Lee College in Baytown, TX. As a writer covering music, art, and contemporary issues, he has authored
Visual Vitriol: The Street Art and Subcultures of the Punk and Hardcore Generations, coauthored
Mojo Hand: The Life and Music of Lightnin’ Hopkins, and contributed to Popmatters (where he publishes a monthly column), Maximum Rock’n’Roll, Houston Press, Art in Print, M/C Journal, The Journal of Popular Music Studies, Artcore, Postmodern Culture, Trust, and others. He is also a longtime drummer, including a stint in the Texas Biscuit Bombs with Biscuit of the Big Boys, and a digital archivist of punk and vernacular culture.
This event is part of
Queer as German Folk, a project celebrating the multilayered histories of Germany’s and America’s diverse LGBTIQ+ communities. A digitally modified version of the exhibition
Queer as German Folk and a full program of virtual events is presented by the
Goethe-Institut in North America in collaboration with its
Goethe Pop Ups and the
Schwules Museum Berlin (SMU).
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