Think about early UK punk and you’re likely to think of The Clash, The Damned, The Buzzcocks, and of course: the Sex Pistols. The Slits or X-Ray Spex seem to be lesser known. Why? Is it because little girls should be seen and not heard? Girls were part of the punk scene, but they play a minor part in ‘definitive’ books on punk (usually written by men). The iconic images of the 1978 Rock Against Racism concert feature The Clash, not the Anglo-Somali punk musician Poly Styrene. Does history writing determine whose voices we hear?

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