Nothing Under Four Stars: Punk music has never been especially inclusive for women - How things can and should change

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Nothing Under Four Stars: Punk music has never been especially inclusive for women - How things can and should change

David Doig

David Doig

Ashnikko CR Artist Official Music Video
Ashnikko’s dystopian-themed debut album reflects the difficult path she has faced as an out queer woman [Image: Official band video]

Punk music has never been especially inclusive for women. Outliers have been there for sure, and the fashion may have been crafted more by feminine minds than male, but the music has tended to be ‘by testosterone and for testosterone’. How things can change. How things should change

WEEDKILLER, Ashnikko Parlophone Records Limited, 2023 Since her provocative but playfully excellent 2021 EP Demidevil, Ashton Nicole Casey, aka Ashnikko, ha, Ashnikko Weedkiller album cover