Yeastie Girlz Saved My Life: How Punk Made Me Less of an Asshole

Have you ever had a band save your life? Or help you along the way to becoming a way different person? This is one such true story in a new zine series detailing real-life episodes of a song or a band that comes along and sets you free from all your preconceived ideas, making a vibrant, less-asshole-ish future possible. In this zine, journalist Colin Burrowes describes his youth in small-town, conservative-Christian Ontario, where he had his teenage notions of sexuality, pleasure, and feminism totally shaken up after crate diving for Lookout! records and discovering the "vaginacore acapella rap” of the Yeastie Girls’ Ovary Action EP. Examining lyrics and the Yeasties’ philosophy track by track, this is an enlivening account of life-changing tunes that still can help each of us be less of an asshole today.