When the group started out, Bitch, originally from Detroit, and Animal, from Queens, left New York City together for gay-mecca Provincetown, Mass-a-two-tits, as the girls call it. There they waited tables, made music, and eventually made a bold move. "We just hit the road, and for like two years we didn't have an apartment to go home to," says Bitch. In the midst of this all-or-nothing gambit, good fortune came calling in the form of the little folk goddess Ani DiFranco, who offered them tours, a recording deal, and help with their sophomore effort, Eternally Hard.
The couple's performances and the recent release of Hard have generated not only media attention but also enough analysis to fill a women's studies course. "[A]s colorful and animated as two sex-positive Muppets," cheered Natalie Nichols of The L.A. Times. A "poor attempt at in-your-face fem-core," groused Sacramento News & Review writer Keith Lowell Jensen. But don't think a little pussy envy can dampen the spirits of a pair of crusaders,` bent on bringing about what they describe as a genuine "spread-it-yourself revolution born inside the eggs of us all."
"It feels great that so many people were ready for ['Pussy Manifesto']," says Bitch, adding with a laugh, "It gives me hope in humanity."
