October BOTM Media Map
Books, films & music to accompany your reading of this month's book pic, Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock and the Fight to Fit In, and to dive deeper into its themes and subjects.
ID: (Clip from Asian Goth Punks Rule the World! by MariNaomi -- comic book art originally featured in Razorcake Magazine) Above is a black and white cartoon depicting a crowded room with people wearing punk-style clothes. Along the top of the box, the text reads 'Bela Lugosi's Dead'. Below, a man with a mohawk sings to a woman crowdsurfing on top of a crowded audience. Text that reads 'Fuck the government FUCK' lines the top.
Books
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Gillian McCain and Legs McNeil
The High Desert by James Spooner
Misfits: A Personal Manifesto by Michaela Coel
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
Violence Girl: East LA Rage to Hollywood Stage, A Chicana Punk Story by Alice Bag
The Spitboy Rule: Tales of a Xicana in a Female Punk Band by Michelle Cruz Gonzales
Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution: An Oral History by Liam Warfeld
The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Hong
Turning Japanese by MariNaomi
Films
Minari (2020)
In Between Days (2006)
Yellow Rose (2019)
Journey From the Fall (2006)
The Namesake (2006)
Deported (2016)
Halmoni (2016)
Turning Red (2022)
White Riot (2019)
Minding the Gap (2018)
American Revolutionary: the Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs (2013)
Afropunk (2003)
Instagram Accounts
Music
Phuc’s Spotify playlist
Hardcover Hotties’ collaborative Spotify playlist
Additional Resources
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