As a Creative Director for a regional energy company in North Carolina, Melissa is in charge of a team of designers that create advertising and promotional content for the utility. Moving to Durham with her band The Butchies, Melissa grew up in the NYC-area, playing drums in bands like Born Against and volunteering at ABC No Rio. We talk with her about her time at Reconstruction Records working with Bill, designing the cover for the first Born Against record and the anti-krishna flyers incident, as well as dive into her work for a large utilities company, how that meshes (and doesn’t) with her activist punk rock ideals and what it’s like to be a boss. For Full Length Episodes And Merchandise Go To https://www.patreon.com/killedbydesk Follow: Killed By Desk Insta: @killedbydeskpodcast Twitter: @killedbydesk Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/killedbydesk LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/killedbydesk
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Melissa York
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_York
https://www.discogs.com/artist/328393-Melissa-York
Baby Fae
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Fae
The Casualties
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOL8DUdfjFo
The Butchies
Team Dresch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3_0-MOD9Yw
Go Back To The Airport
https://youtu.be/JsRpVtB0GUI?t=247
https://www.noecho.net/features/anti-krishna-flyers-incident-of-1990
Born Against LP Design
https://www.discogs.com/Born-Against-Nine-Patriotic-Hymns-For-Children/master/60320
Bill and Charles Maggio in front of Reconstruction Records sign
https://photos.app.goo.gl/kWP81bkeCZqeUx6p8
Jon Hiltz
https://www.discogs.com/artist/560236-Jon-Hiltz
Service bureau
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_bureau
Barbara Kruger
https://www.moma.org/artists/3266
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Kruger
McKinney
“I just like purple”
https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2011/08/04/rorschach-protestant/
Girls Up Front - Where are they now?
Riot Grrrl Wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riot_grrrl
Cap and Trade
https://www.edf.org/climate/how-cap-and-trade-works
Make the logo bigger chrome plugin for marketing’s revenge
“In Japan the hand can be used like a knife”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wzULnlHr8w
https://youtu.be/QUarASqrVnY?t=51
Chinese American’s Citizens Alliance of Greater New York
https://photos.app.goo.gl/KuyVfpwvPXohyct36
https://photos.app.goo.gl/Jkw3LPrpcf4V1mzA8
https://photos.app.goo.gl/TodwmgmgUiRtsPvF9
Chinese Exclusion Act
https://www.history.com/topics/immigration/chinese-exclusion-act-1882