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 different person? This is one such true story in a new series detailing real-life episodes of when a song or a band comes along and sets you free from all your preconceived ideas, making a vibrant, less-assholey future possible. In this lovingly crafted 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 while crate diving for Lookout! records and discovering the "vaginacore acapella rap" of the Yeastie Girlz Ovary Action EP. Examining lyrics and the Yeasties' philosophy track by track, this is an enlivening account of life-changing tunes that can still help each of us be less of an asshole today.

By Colin Burrowes. 28 pages, 4.25"×7"×0.2". Published April 8, 2025.