Early life

Vi Subversa real name Frances Sokolov Sansom (born 20 June 1935, London

London

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) was the singer and guitarist of UK anarcho-punk

Anarcho-punk

Anarcho-punk is punk rock that promotes anarchism. The term anarcho-punk is sometimes applied exclusively to bands that were part of the original anarcho-punk movement in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s and early 1980s...

 band Poison Girls

Poison Girls

The Poison Girls were an English anarcho-punk band. The female singer/guitarist, Vi Subversa, was a middle-aged mother of two at the band's inception, and wrote songs that explored sexuality and gender roles, usually from an anarchist perspective...

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She was born of East-European Jewish parents. She spent two years in Israel

Israel

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 in the late 1950s, before returning to the UK

United Kingdom

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. She had two children, Pete Fender (born Daniel Sansom, 1964) and Gem Stone (born Gemma Sansom, 1967) who were both members of the punk bands Fatal Microbes

Fatal Microbes

Fatal Microbes were a UK punk group that existed in the late 1970s. Honey Bane was the lead singer. Other band members were Gem Stone on drums, Pete Fender on guitar, and Scotty Boy Barker who was briefly replaced as bassist by It .In 1979, Small Wonder and XNTRIX Records co-released a split...

 and Rubella Ballet

Rubella Ballet

Rubella Ballet are a punk rock band formed in autumn, 1979, who released several albums before splitting up in 1991. They reformed in 2000.-History:...

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Poison Girls

Vi's first public singing was not with Poison Girls

Poison Girls

The Poison Girls were an English anarcho-punk band. The female singer/guitarist, Vi Subversa, was a middle-aged mother of two at the band's inception, and wrote songs that explored sexuality and gender roles, usually from an anarchist perspective...

; it was as part of The Body Show at Sussex University in 1975.

In 1979, at 44 years old and a mother of two, Vi Subversa released the first single with the Poison Girls. Her lyrics were written from a radical feminist punk perspective.

She is featured in the documentary film

Documentary film

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She's a Punk Rocker.