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11 ‘Mental liberation issue’

Toxic Grafity’s punk epiphany as subjectivity (re)storying ‘the truth of revolution’ across the lifespan

Abstract

Mike Diboll looks back on his life, connecting his experience as young punk producing a fanzine to his later experience in the midst of the Bahrain revolution. By so doing, he suggests a new way of writing about the punk experience, going beyond history writing, discourse analysis and cultural studies based approaches to reveal how punk pasts can be used in personal-political presents to enable personal-political agency for social and political justice, and to effect therapeutic or curative transformations in a context of a neoliberal mental health pandemic.

Abstract

Mike Diboll looks back on his life, connecting his experience as young punk producing a fanzine to his later experience in the midst of the Bahrain revolution. By so doing, he suggests a new way of writing about the punk experience, going beyond history writing, discourse analysis and cultural studies based approaches to reveal how punk pasts can be used in personal-political presents to enable personal-political agency for social and political justice, and to effect therapeutic or curative transformations in a context of a neoliberal mental health pandemic.

Chapters in this book

  1. Front matter i
  2. Contents v
  3. List of figures viii
  4. List of contributors ix
  5. Foreword xiv
  6. Acknowledgements xvi
  7. Introduction 1
  8. I: Going underground: process and place
  9. 1 Doing it ourselves 15
  10. 2 Zines and history: zines as history 39
  11. 3 Whose culture? 55
  12. 4 Invisible women 72
  13. II: Communiqués and Sellotape: constructing cultures
  14. 5 ‘Pam ponders Paul Morley’s cat’ 91
  15. 6 Goth zines 110
  16. 7 The evolution of an anarcho-punk narrative, 1978–84 129
  17. 8 ‘Don’t do as you’re told, do as you think’ 150
  18. 9 Are you scared to get punky? 170
  19. III: Memos from the frontline: locating the source
  20. 10 Vague post-punk memoirs, 1979–89 191
  21. 11 ‘Mental liberation issue’ 201
  22. 12 From Year Zero to 1984 214
  23. 13 Kick 226
  24. 14 ‘This is aimed as much at us as at you’ 236
  25. IV: Global communications: continuities and distinctions
  26. 15 Punking the bibliography 245
  27. 16 Punks against censorship 264
  28. 17 Contradictory self-definition and organisation 281
  29. 18 ‘Angry grrrl zines’ 295
  30. Index 317
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Chapters in this book

  1. Front matter i
  2. Contents v
  3. List of figures viii
  4. List of contributors ix
  5. Foreword xiv
  6. Acknowledgements xvi
  7. Introduction 1
  8. I: Going underground: process and place
  9. 1 Doing it ourselves 15
  10. 2 Zines and history: zines as history 39
  11. 3 Whose culture? 55
  12. 4 Invisible women 72
  13. II: Communiqués and Sellotape: constructing cultures
  14. 5 ‘Pam ponders Paul Morley’s cat’ 91
  15. 6 Goth zines 110
  16. 7 The evolution of an anarcho-punk narrative, 1978–84 129
  17. 8 ‘Don’t do as you’re told, do as you think’ 150
  18. 9 Are you scared to get punky? 170
  19. III: Memos from the frontline: locating the source
  20. 10 Vague post-punk memoirs, 1979–89 191
  21. 11 ‘Mental liberation issue’ 201
  22. 12 From Year Zero to 1984 214
  23. 13 Kick 226
  24. 14 ‘This is aimed as much at us as at you’ 236
  25. IV: Global communications: continuities and distinctions
  26. 15 Punking the bibliography 245
  27. 16 Punks against censorship 264
  28. 17 Contradictory self-definition and organisation 281
  29. 18 ‘Angry grrrl zines’ 295
  30. Index 317
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