This new exhibition spotlights the hidden history of women in punk music
From Vivienne Westwood and a one-off X-Ray Specs reunion show to rare portraits of Poly Styrene and The Slits gallivanting with Steel Pulse, Up Yours! God Save the Queens offers a timely recentring of punk’s leading ladies
Black News 
In May 1978, X-Ray Spex frontwoman Poly Styrene was asked whether she was punk’s new sex symbol. “If anybody tried to make me one I’d shave my head tomorrow,” she retorted. A few weeks later, she shaved her head. Just 20 at the time, the X-Ray Spex frontwoman was mixed-race and working-class, with braces on her teeth. She wrote songs about consumerism, synthetic food and genetic engineering, all topics still relevant today, yet the newspapers mostly wrotehellip;
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