International Girl Gang Underground Zine Release Party!

              Exactly four days after International Woman's Day, Kate Watkins (from the collective For the Birds) and Support New York were tabling this year for the International Girl Gang Underground Zine Release Party. The event was held at Death by Audio and was very much a safe place for everyone involved. There was a bake sale to benefit research for Polycystic Kidney Disease.
          
           The bands that played were:

SLINGSHOT DAKOTA
(NY/PA punk-pop sweethearts)
http://myspace.com/slingshotdakota

BAD BANANA
...(ex- PS ELIOT, new- favorite band)
http://badbanana.muxtape.com/

AYE NAKO
(ex- FLEABAG, NY pop-punk sweethearts)
http://ayenako.org/

AMERICAN SUN
(new Brooklyn dreaminess, think GRASS WIDOW)
http://myspace.com/americansunnyc

          And finally the facebook event page clearly stated:

// The International Girl Gang Underground Zine Release Party has a safer space policy intended to make this event a supportive, nonthreatening environment for everyone including survivors of abuse and sexual assault. Harassment, abuse, and assault, as well as racist, sexist, queerphobic, classist, ageist, or otherwise oppressive remarks or behavior will not be tolerated.

People who have perpetrated inter-personal violence, assault and/or harassment and are not presently undergoing any accountability-related process are asked not to attend. There will be mediators at the show to assist if any violations do arise, so if you would like to speak to a safer space team member please find someone with a pink armband, or ask someone at the Support New York table to help you. //