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Gendered

by Hot Mess!

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Bärkər It says here that I should tell Hot Mess (and the rest of the world) why I love this record.

* Pure punk conviction.
* ‘Not your fucking business. Mr. or Ms. We will resist / All your phones; psycho probes. To be themselves, not on the back shelf’ When stanzas bite deep and the players rock the beehive, I consider it a keeper.
* I’d travel to Australia just to face their furies. (insert pause) … And to ask their autographs. Favorite track: Gendered.
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Hot Mess’s new single release, Gendered, was inspired and focuses mainly on Cole’s experience raising a young Trans/2 Spirit child, witnessing first-hand the ignorant colonial conditioned mindset that puts young (and all), Trans/2 Spirit people in danger every day. Hot Mess stands in solidarity with the 2SLGTBQ+ community and will continue to rage out against the ongoing injustices and dangerous mental, psychological, physical and emotional and spiritual conditions Trans/2 Spirit people are subjected to daily.

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Are you a girl
or a boy?
you gotta pick
so they can destroy

Your self-confidence
Makes a big mess
How ya gonna dress?
So they can cause you stress

Might, wanna mention
You’ll get detention
if you stand up
And kick their ass

Take their abuse
no excuse
Try an educte
Opinions that they state

Which bathroom or section?
don’t stand out
Don’t scream and shout

For your rights!
you gotta fight
Discrimination
Alienation

What!
do wear?
pants or skirt
Their words will hurt

Cause they’re Transphobic
Homophobic
Genderphobic
SO MAKE SOME NOISE!

Not!
Your fucking business
Mr. or Ms
we will resist

all your phones
psycho probes
to be themselves
not on the back shelf

Keep!
Your violence to yourself
not gonna fuck up
their mental health

Anatomy?
None of your business
you know what they say
Ignorance is bliss

This!
another chance
to take a stance
and dance the dance

Of equality
Equity
Safety
It’s up to you and me

Protect!
Community
If you can’t see
Just leave em’ be

JUST SHUT UP!
You don’t like it?
Look away
stop makin’ em pay

For their freedom
to be themselves
Kids are killing themselves
so shut your fucking mouth!!

Just
wanna live
Human Beings
Why aren’t you seein’

Shit’s getting old
your soul is cold
when will you quit
wounding our 2 Spirit?!

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released October 19, 2023

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Hot Mess! Bellingen, Australia

Hot Mess are a three-piece womyn’s punk band from the Bellinger river, Bindarray Yurruun, on Gumbaynggirr Country on the mid- North coast of NSW. We are Cole Flett (vocals, guitar), Jo Ware (vocals, drums) and Sarah Wright (vocals, bass) and we play feminist, menopausal, garage, punk rock. We have a lot to say and we reckon that an old school, womyn’s punk band is the perfect way to say it, loudly! ... more

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