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Born an identical twin in Memphis, Tennessee, Allison Wolfe was raised in an all-female household by a lesbian feminist mother who started the first women’s health clinic in Olympia, Washington. She co-founded a punk fanzine Girl Germs, an all-girl band Bratmobile, and third-wave feminist punk movement riot grrrl. Allison also sang in the bands Cold Cold Hearts, Deep Lust, Partyline, Cool Moms, Sex Stains, Ex-Stains, Cliquey Bitches (Scorpio Scorpio) and Magic Witch Cookbox, along with initiating the non-profit music festival Ladyfest in 1999. She currently lives in Los Angeles where she teaches music journalism at UCLA, hosts and co-produces a podcast “I’m in the Band,” does freelance music journalism, public speaking, teaches ESL/EFL, DJ-ing and sings again in Bratmobile. A University of Southern California Annenberg Fellow, Allison completed a masters in specialized journalism in the arts with a focus on audio storytelling. She is also gradually working on a riot grrrl book and podcast.