Lock Up Your Daughters #1

Kicking off with a delicious rant that blasts the queer movement for inertia and liberalism, Lock Up Your Daughters summons old school punk energy that drove through queercore and riot grrrl before collapsing in Ladyfest. It’s a hefty read, sharp and beautifully laid out. Since the LYUD gang are pretty together - they’ve already held two nights to promote themselves - they are set to become a serious irritant.

An article on Bearlesque aside - they turn up as regularly as my bad itch - the features are intelligent and detailed. Local literary goddess Louise Welsh gets a visit, as does fashion’s rising star Paul Alexander Thornton. There are even cartoons in the back which are readable and not painfully personal, unlike most zine scribbling.

I wish they’d been as pissed off through the whole thing as they are in the editorial: they talk about things they love, which is constructive and all, but I long for more LYUD mayhem.