On February 9, 2018 at UCLA's Punk Conference, "Curating Resistance," Pleasant and Theresa recounted the teenage historical record of 1970s Los Angeles punk by explaining why and how they published Lobotomy: The Brainless Magazine.
LA Taco reported on it: While the conference was educational in
nature, there was a sense of merging the academic and the personal. The
event’s speakers included author Stacy Russo, whose recent book We were Going to Change the World: Interviews with Women from the 1970s and 1980s Southern California Punk Rock Scene, and Tanya Pearson from Women of Rock Oral History Project,
both of whom have stressed the importance of women telling their own
stories. On Friday, Pleasant Gehman and Theresa Kereakes recounted their
days as young punks who documented the Hollywood scene as it unfolded
in the zine Lobotomy.
It’s punk as a means of making yourself heard and that also might be
reflective of what is happening with the presence of this counterculture
movement at major institutions.
UCLA's campus paper, The Daily Bruin previewed the conference.
The punk rock weekend ended with a sold-out spoken word show at Hollywood's El Cid, featuring storytelling from LA's original punk rockers, Exene Cervenka (X), Jane Wiedlin (The GoGo's), Iris Berry (The Ringling Sisters), Mike Martt (Tex & the Horseheads), and Bob Forrest (Thelonius Monster), with Pleasant and Theresa serving as emcees as well as storytellers.
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