Agitprop! Records

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Note: for Chumbawamba's UK-based record label, see Agit-Prop Records.

Stand Up & Fucking Fight For It cover (art by Ghalib El-Khalidi)

Agitprop! Records is a 'queercore and hip hop' independent record label based in Boston, USA, founded by Angela Tavares.

One of the label's notable releases is the compilation Stand Up & Fucking Fight For It, its first full-length CD, released in 2002. The recording features queer punk bands such as Fagatron, Best Revenge, The Rotten Fruits and others, and is one of a handful of queercore compilations to be released. Recognizing the similar DIY ethics of punk and hip hop, Agitprop! soon began issuing records by hip hop artists like Juha and Deep Dickollective.

Agitprop! was initially established as a distro, and continued to distribute other labels' recordings after it began releasing its own. The label is heavily referenced in Homocore, a somewhat definitive guidebook to queercore history.

Tavares eventually closed Agitprop! to focus on her writing, which has included "Fast Ones" from the upcoming Dennis Cooper anthology, Userlands (Akashic).