Niina Pollari is a writer and translator in Brooklyn. She has written for
Bitch Magazine, Jezebel, Sadie Magazine, Brooklyn Rail, and other venues both in print and online. With Judy Berman, she is editing the essay collection *It's Complicated: Feminists Write about the Misogynist Art We Love*.
“She looks like a Babylonian Gorgon,” a reviewer once wrote of Alice Bag in a show review. Her then-band, the Bags, was at the forefront of the late seventies punk scene in Bag’s native Los Angeles.