‘All you have to do is participate’: how the Shotgun Seamstress zine made space for Black punks

As the DIY publication is collected in a new anthology, creator Osa Atoe and the musicians she inspired reflect on its defiant positivityIn 2006, Osa Atoe picked up pen and paper and began to write herself into history. She had decided to create a fanzine, titled Shotgun Seamstress, with a simple manifesto: to support “Black people who exist within predominantly white subcultures, and to encourage the creation of our own.” She went on to produce eight issues, and now those lovingly crafted pages have been compiled into an anthology that celebrates her zine’s status as one of the most iconic subcultural documents of the 00s alt-rock scene.“I think it had to do with finding a genre that encourages participation,” reflects Atoe from her Florida home. “My parents are Nigerian, and my dad always had a big record collection, mostly pop and R&B. I was a teen in the 90s so it was impossible to not know about grunge, but punk was the first genre that told me that I could be in a band.” Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

[ The Guardian | 2022-11-21 12:00:20 UTC ]
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PRH Celebrates Black Excellence (and Books) with #AllWaysBlack

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Ewen and Salami win inaugural Jericho Prize for Black-British writers

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Parenting while Black was hard enough for Taylor Harris. Then something went wrong

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Black Sands Gets $500K 'Shark Tank' Offer From Kevin Hart

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As a black literary agent, I despair at UK publishing's lack of diversity | Natalie Jerome

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