Vi Subversa

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Vi Subversa (born 1935) was the singer and guitarist of UK anarcho-punk band Poison Girls. She was born 1935 in London of Polish Jewish parents. She spent two years in Israel in the 1960s before returning to the UK. Her first public singing was not with Poison Girls. It was Part of "The Body Show"/Sussex University, 1975. In 1981 Vi Subversa released the first single with the Poison Girls. In her lyrics are written out of a radical feminist punk perspective. She was also mother to Pete Fender and Gem Stone, who were members of the punk bands Fatal Microbes and Rubella Ballet.

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