Canons influence how we remember the past and rock journalism, media, and scholarship perpetuates a one sided, androcentric rock narrative. Artists and music that fit easily into the existing  masculinist “sex, drugs, rock n’ roll” narrative are more likely to find a place in rock history, whereas those that do not are more likely forgotten or marginalized. Women do not easily fit and so they continue to be underrepresented. If they are represented at all, they are not given the same level of attention or granted the same access to audience as their male counterparts.

By creating space for women, trans, and gender nonconforming artists to share their personal and professional histories, we hope to contribute to the expansion of a more inclusive and accurate popular rock narrative.