🤘Best known for her project Forced into Femininity, which combined noise-rock and performance art, Jill Lloyd Flanagan has been a mainstay on the Chicago Punk scene for over 20 years. | JuggaloReporter 📷 Carolina Sanchez 👇
, which for nearly ten years used uncompromising noise and performance art to explore the nature of femininity and personhood and the real or perceived threats to them. Flanagan is a punk oral historian and an embodiment to radical ideas and aesthetics.I grew up in Chicago. As a kid, I was very in my own fantasy world, and music was a way to live out my fantasies. I was into 90s thrash metal, grunge, punk—stuff with exciting characters. In high school I started to learn bass.
I started getting into noise rock at 17. Tower Records magazine had reviewed a bunch of Japanese noise records, so I listened to them and was like, “What is this gift?” I’d never heard, like, little toys and static in songs before. At the time, I was also taking classes at SAIC and Columbia College. Eventually I went full-time-ish at Northeastern Illinois University. I studied philosophy, which I’m finishing up my degree in now. I had this teacher that was very inspirational to me. She was a radical lesbian separatist from the 70s. Very, very cool. Also very, very problematic.
Around 24, I did Coughs. That was my first really serious band, which lasted about five years. We had two drummers who played steel drums that we found at the park. Maybe they were Park District garbage cans? And we had a bunch of pots and pans and random drums and a bass and guitar. I played saxophone and keyboards. We met Anya Davidson through an audition, and she was really scary, so we got her to sing for us.
And I continued those interests with Forced Into Femininity. I started that project right before I moved back to Chicago in 2010. I wanted to try a solo project and make music about being trans, which I’d never done. I got very theatrical and did grotesque makeup, and I was very interested in performing in spaces where that’s not supposed to happen.
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