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    War on Women Fuses Feminism and Hardcore Punk

    “We are bringing our message of feminism across the globe," says the band’s singer.
    by Lucy Westcott Dec 02, 2016 4 minutes
    Shawna Potter headbangs on stage at Saint Vitus, in Brooklyn, New York, with Brooks Harlan, left, on guitar and Sue Werner, center, on bass, October 9.
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    “I’m on my period!” a woman shouts from the crowd at a punk show in north Brooklyn.

    “I’m not sure it deserves that much fanfare,” Shawna Potter, singer for War on Women, replies from the stage.

    This isn’t a typical exchange between the audience and the band between songs at a hardcore punk show. Then again, War on Women isn’t your typical hardcore punk band. Formed five years ago and based in Baltimore, War on Women scream and shred about topics that seldom grace the genre’s back catalog: abortion rights, access to contraception, surviving rape, and online misogyny.

    “We are bringing our message of feminism across the globe," Potter, the band's singer, tells in the basement and bizarrely enough, Saint Vitus’s basement is home to a of Republican president nominee Donald Trump that imagines him as a 1989 real estate Willy Wonka.

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