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In 2017, New York punk and new wave band Blondie released the music video “Doom or Destiny” to protest the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States, following his divisive, often sexist, and racist campaign against Hillary Clinton. Collaborating with feminist punk performer Joan Jett, Blondie draws on their history in New York's punk scene since the 1970s, using it as a queer-feminist resource to critique modern politics, media, and society. Building on recent debates about the performance and performativity of (sub)cultural memory and social identity, this chapter studies how cultural citations related to punk, queerness, feminism, and New York City construct and commemorate Blondie's queer and feminist punk identity. Implying a romanticized continuity of liberal values in punk, it argues that “Doom or Destiny” aligns with recent, popular queer and feminist struggles that arose as ‘popular feminism’ in the United States in the 2010s.
Keywords: Blondie ; Cultural Citationality ; Cultural Heritage ; Donald Trump ; Feminism ; Feminist Practice ; History ; Identity ; Memory Practice ; Music Video ; Narrative ; Performing Arts ; Popular Feminism ; Punk ; Queerness
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