Alice Bag

Hope you can make it to one of these appearances. Book readings consist of spoken word excerpts from the book, musical performances and Q+A if time allows. Books and other items for sale at each appearance.

2/5 Ladyfest Boston (Terry Ann and Melissa)

Cambridge YMCA ($15 day pass)

1:00-2:15 pm

2/6 The Flywheel (Meghan and Ally)

43 Main Street ( In the Old Town Hall)

Easthampton, MA 01027

Voluntary Donation, 8:00 pm

2/7 Bluestockings (Leah, Angela, Angie and me)

172 Allen Street

 New York, NY 10002

(212) 777-6028

7:00-9:00pm

2/8 Goldenwest Cafe (Angie and Me)

1105 West 36th Street

 Baltimore, MD 21211-2410

(410) 889-8891

Show starts at 10:00 pm (we go on 2nd)

Price $7.00 with War on Women

2/9 Joint Custody (Angie, me, and Kid Congo)

2337 18th St NW

(at Belmont Rd NW)

Washington, DC 20009

8:00 pm, donation

2/10 The Marvelous (Nicole, Angie, and me)

 208 S 40th Street

Philadelphia, PA 19104

(215) 386-6110

Donation, 8:00pm

With Carmen and 3 Jane

2/11  Providence Public Library (Hillary, Angie, me) 

150 Empire Street

 Providence, RI 02903-3219

(401) 455-8000

All ages, starts at 7:00

2/12 Boston Aviary (Terry Ann and Melissa)

48 south street

Jamaica Plain, MA 02130

Free, all ages, starts at 8:00 pm

I can’t even describe how awesome these women are for pulling this off. 
5.

Q: Do you identify as Chicana and if so, how do you feel you embody this identity in punk?
 
Alice: “I do now, but I didn’t always. When I was younger I wrongly believed that there was something I had to do, a test I had to pass or a class I had to take to be able to call myself a Chicana. I know better now. I identify as a Chicana punk. Punk is an attitude, it’s a rebellious, unapologetic dig at the status quo. As Chicanas we’ve had to fight to carve our way into a narrow and bigoted definition of what it means to be an American in the US while at the same time refusing to be blanched and synthesized by assimilating into the American mainstream. Refusal to relinquish our ethnic identity is punk.”

Q: Do you feel that “Chicana Punk” or punk with feminist attributes is a completely different punk scene?

Alice: No way, I refuse to be a faction. I want in on the big action. Punk without pussy power, punk without ethnic diversity just supports the status quo, it doesn’t subvert or challenge it, therefore it can’t even be called punk.

-Interview with Alice Bag 1/23/12