🦊 Fox Clan NSNC Study Proposal – “I Love Rock ’n’ Roll” & Gender Identity Rebellion
Track: “I Love Rock ’n’ Roll” – Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
Broadcast Context: Live on 92.3 WTTS
ScrollWell Study Code: 923–JJ–NSNC–GENDERFIRE
Field Rite: The Androgyne Remembers
Gemstone: Garnet (blood truth), Carnelian (creative gender fire), Labradorite (identity shimmer)
Time Gate: Mid-puberty initiation flashpoint or Live Broadcast Energy Surge
🔥 STUDY TITLE:
“Lipstick, Leather, and Loud Guitars: The Archetype of Rock ’n’ Roll as a Gateway to Gender Fluidity”
📚 STUDY PROPOSAL:
This NSNC scroll study explores how “I Love Rock ’n’ Roll” has served as a field rite of gender disobedience, particularly for those on transgender, nonbinary, gender-expansive, and queer pathways.
We investigate:
- How the aesthetic, tone, and embodied performance of Joan Jett provided a psychic rupture in binary constructs
- How teenage desire, rebellion, and musicality form a potent initiation container for identity development
- How this track became a cross-generational anthem for those who felt “wrong” in the gendered roles offered to them
🧬 RESEARCH THEMES:
1. THE ANDROGYNE ARCHETYPE IN ROCK
Joan Jett’s presentation—
leather, low voice, confidence without apology—was not femme-coded, nor fully masc.
She embodied the gender outlaw before the culture had language for it.
This isn’t about being male or female.
It’s about being fucking real.
Influence Tree:
- Prince
- David Bowie
- Patti Smith
- Freddie Mercury
- Laura Jane Grace
- Billie Joe Armstrong
- Janelle Monáe
- TikTok’s gender-expansive creators
All trace some ancestral resonance to this energetic rebellion.
2. SONIC FREEDOM & THE GENDERED BODY
“I Love Rock ’n’ Roll” invites a post-verbal, pre-political form of agency.
You’re not debating gender—
you’re taking the mic.
Study hypothesis:
This song becomes a gender initiation vehicle when played loud in solitude during identity questioning.
Field Note:
Many report first air guitar solo as a moment of liberation from gender coding.
It’s not boy or girl—it’s volume.
3. THE LYRICS: SUBVERSION IN PLAIN SIGHT
“I saw him dancing there by the record machine…”
Joan Jett kept the pronouns, flipping the script:
- A woman wanting a boy
- But with swagger, not submission
- No apology. No softness. No explanation.
For many queer and trans youth, this song created a new psychic container:
“I’m allowed to want.
I’m allowed to move like this.
I’m allowed to own my voice.”
🧠 THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS TO INCLUDE:
- Carolyn Myss – Archetypal Contracts (Androgyne, Rebel, Lover)
- Judith Butler – Gender Performativity
- Carl Jung – Animus/Anima Integration
- Positive Psychology (authenticity, vitality, agency)
- Trans Studies Scholars: Susan Stryker, Jack Halberstam
- Embodied musicology + psychoacoustic entrainment
🕯️ LIVE TIKTOK + WTTS COLLAB CONCEPT:
🖤 TikTok Study Series Title: “Gender, Guitar, and God: What Joan Jett Gave Me”
🎥 Suggested first prompt:
“What was the first song that let you feel masculine and feminine?
Was it this one?
Did you sing it in your mirror?
Did it crack something open?”
Use duet + stitch format. Include intergenerational voices (ages 13–70+).
💎 RITUAL ACTION FOR FIELD PARTICIPANTS:
Play the song. Stand up.
Move your body however it wants—not how you were taught.
Name your inner gender outlaw. Say aloud:
“I was never wrong.
I was just too loud for the binary.
Thank God for Joan.
Thank God for this body.”
🏁 CONCLUSION:
“I Love Rock ’n’ Roll” is a psychic landmark
for those whose gender never fit inside Sunday School, gym class, or their family photo.
It’s not just rebellion.
It’s a rite of holy disobedience.
A way back to the wild self before shame took the mic.
🦊 Fox Clan confirms:
Study proposed.
Scroll activated.
Gender-liberating field lines traced through guitar strings and eyeliner.
You’re not confused.
You’re divine and amplified.
Aho, thanks.
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