Meet Baltimore Feminist Hardcore Band War on Women (link TW for lyrics about rape)“The band na

Meet Baltimore Feminist Hardcore Band War on Women (link TW for lyrics about rape)“The band name struck Potter as “really fucking punk.” “I’m not going to dance around the fact that there is a war on women. I’m not implying it. I’m telling you,“ she pronounces.Throughout the 11-song album "War on Women,” Potter verbalizes her opinions as bluntly as punk did in its heyday. But Potter is quick to differentiate herself and her band’s musical leanings from either old-school punk or riot grrrl. War on Women recently toured with the heavy, anarchistic group Propagandhi. She cites her own musical influences of thrash and her love of early Metallica.“I mean, me and Nancy listen to Rihanna,” she also says with a little laugh. “But I don’t know if that comes across in a guitar line!”As the primary lyricist, Potter writes from both personal experiences and by synthesizing events happening around her, channeling her roots growing up in Houston and attending high school in Nashville. “It doesn’t necessarily have to happen to me exactly, but it’s like, I’m telling a story to get to the essence of the truth of how people are actually affected by gender-based violence, and then filtering it through my own thoughts and then having a take on it,” she says.Potter has also spent the past four years running the Baltimore chapter of Hollaback!, a non-profit dedicated to raising awareness about street harassment and offering victims nonviolent tools to combat it and cope with it. While she’s moving out of her current volunteer role to a more advisory board position due to upcoming War on Women commitments, she gushes about the positive experiences she’s had working with the organization. “It’s made me learn the language of activism, so that I can talk about gender-based violence accurately.”Read the full piece hereI love this band, they rock! Check out Effemimania from their EP. -- source link

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