GENDER IS DEAD, PINK IS 4EVER

July, 5th – 14h00 – 14h20 – OPENING EXHIBITION ‘Gender is Dead, Pink is 4Ever’ by Paula Guerra and João Leite

GENDER IS DEAD, PINK IS 4EVER by Ana Carolina Avillez, Isabel Leite, João Leite, Laura Gil, Marlene Borges and Tânia Moreira

Description: The exhibition Gender is Dead, Pink is 4Ever will bring together the most interesting publications about the genre, music and difference acquired by the Library of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, particularly with regard to cultural and artistic manifestations related to DIY cultures. Here are international reference periodicals that largely documented this period and which were recently donated to the Library, as well as some phonographic and videographic materials. It is an exhibition that will result in the launch of a book-catalog (to be presented during the exhibition). This exhibition aims to contribute to the understanding of the emergence and consolidation of (sub)(post) subcultures, concretely what gender means in this context. Despite the presence of women since the beginning of punk and the pretension of gender equality in recent years, what stands out is the existence of a persistent denial of main roles in (post) punk scenes – emerging a kind of feminine unfeasibility and invisibility. This “lack of women” in the scenes was/is felt as an outrage and as a great example of male hegemony in terms of the history of popular culture and youth cultures. Keywords: gender, feminism, music, post-feminism, queer theories, social movements, punk, post-punk, DIY cultures.