I Just Write What I Want To

I Saw A Video On Youtube Of A Girl Who Had Very Similar Reactions To Late-stage Lyme Disease As I Did. And I Thought It Was Crazy. And When I Saw Her Basically Have A Seizure On Camera That Looked Very Much Like My Seizure I Felt, "oh My God. That's Me." And So It Was Really Important To Me, And I Said To Sini, 'we Have To Find Some Way To Not Just Talk About Lyme Disease, But To Show It.

My Vision Of Punk Rock Was These Dudes Who Were Spitting On The Audience And Moshing. That's Why I Kind Of Left That Scene. Then I See All These People Around My Same Age Or Between 17 And 25 That Were Making Music Themselves In Their Own Town. They Weren't Just Singing, But Creating. I See Them Putting Out This Music Where There Are Tons Of Women Involved In The Scene And Involved In The Bands.

I'm Not Sure Riot Grrrl Would Have Been As Big A Deal If The Internet Had Existed Back Then. Because There's So Much Stuff On The Internet. People Could Have Been Like, Oh, Whatever, I'm Going To Go Look At Pictures Of Barbie Vaginas, You Know What I Mean? There's So Many Different Things On The Internet, You Read One Article And Then You Read Something Linked Off That Article And You Go Down The Rabbit Hole.

In 1985, I Was Living With My Sister In Virginia, And Since I Was Still In High School, I Worked At Mcdonald's To Save Money To Get An Abortion. It Sounds Really Terrible, But It Was The Best Decision I Ever Made. It Was The First Time I Took Responsibility For My Actions. I Messed Up, Had Sex Without Contraception, And Got Pregnant At 15.

There Are More People Who Are Not Straight, White Males Going To Shows.