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  • "It's incredibly fun to work intensively on something special to you."transparentblog.comAs with a lot of small labels, Transgressive Records was born out of a mixture of frustration and a DIY ethos that essentially boiled down to "if no one else is doing it, then why don't we?"

    SXSW 2011: The British labels making it big in Austin 2011

  • For an indie label such as Transgressive, the idea of risk-taking is a bit of a double-edged sword.

    SXSW 2011: The British labels making it big in Austin 2011

  • Transgressive yes and also a marked duality: How have you made division of yourself?

    In praise of … Twelfth Night | Editorial 2011

  • Pulled Apart By Horses High Five, Swan Dive, Nose Dive (Transgressive) A structureless blast of lunatic energy, the second single from this Leeds quartet's durr-core debut features loud things falling into other, louder, things, and a bit that sounds like the bit in Hulk where Hulk punches that lorry.

    This week's new singles 2010

  • Transgressive literature works more subtly, by chipping away at certain modes of thinking that contribute to the perpetuation of oppressive political structures.

    Politics and Literature 2007

  • Pinoy Transgressive is a fairly new site devoted to short stories of transgressive fiction, which is described on Wikipedia as A genre of literature that focuses on characters who feel confined by the norms and expectations of society and who break free of those confines in unusual and/or illicit ways.

    Archive 2009-10-01 2009

  • Transgressive horror, then, repurposed to focus on the monsters and grotesquery but not the “scare,” forms the beating heart of the New Weird.

    The New Weird Anthology – Notes and Introduction 2009

  • My panel, “Transgressive Poets and the Pronouns that Love Them” was rejected

    Hello vast emptiness, : Jeffrey McDaniel : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

  • Transgressive humor only works when the joke teller is not operating from a position of privilege vis a vis the taboo being transgressed.

    Archive 2008-01-01 2008

  • Their sister, Sally, who teaches a course in "Transgressive Feminist Ceramics," can see that life is not perfect, even though dear Dick and Jane cannot.

    Top Five Funny Titles I Picked in a Pinch: And Two Honorable Mentions I Didn't 2007

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