Free to Fight is a project consisting of a 1995 double album

Double album

A double album is an audio album which spans two units of the primary medium in which it is sold, typically records and compact discs....

 and booklet, and a single later released by Candy Ass Records

Candy Ass Records

Candy Ass Records is an independent record label run out of Portland, Oregon by Jody Bleyle, a member of the band Team Dresch as well as member of Hazel and formerly of the queercore bands Family Outing and Infinite Xs....

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The release is subtitled "an interactive self-defense project." The theme of the project is self-defense for women, and it includes records featuring all-women bands and a 75-page booklet with writings, comics, and graphics by Cynthia Star, Rachel Hanes, Julia Toews, Robin V. Bowser, Nina Landey, Maria Mercedes, bell hooks

Bell hooks

Gloria Jean Watkins , better known by her pen name bell hooks, is an American author, feminist, and social activist....

, Roberta Gregory

Roberta Gregory

Roberta Gregory is an American comic book writer and artist best known for her character Bitchy Bitch from her Fantagraphics Books series Naughty Bits.Gregory's father was Disney comics artist Bob Gregory...

, Penny Van Horn, Kirsten Ostherr, Laura Sister Nobody, Rachel, Jeannie La France, Alice Stagg, Moira Bowman, Alicia Cohen, Christine Denkewalter, Margaret Denkelwalter, Ellen Crofts, Shannon, Jo, Sara Stout, Lisa Addario, Lake, Bridget Irish, Nikki McClure, Stella Marrs, Staci Colter, Jody Bleyle

Jody Bleyle

Jody Bleyle is an American musician, songwriter and independent record label owner.Jody Bleyle first gained public attention in the Pacific Northwest music scene of the 1990s, in the Portland, Oregon–based band Hazel. The group, formed in 1992, released two albums on the Sub Pop label, to critical...

 and Anna LoBianco. The recordings also include self-defense instructions and personal testimonies.

It was released as a double album, on two 12" vinyl records, and also released simultaneously as a CD.

The recording was spotlighted in the 1997 documentary film

Documentary film

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 She's Real by Lucy Thane

Lucy Thane

Lucy Thane is a documentary filmmaker.One of her most notable works is It Changed My Life: Bikini Kill In The UK in which she followed the 1990s riot grrrl band Bikini Kill while they were on tour in the UK with Huggy Bear....

, which featured interviews with Candy Ass Records owner Jody Bleyle

Jody Bleyle

Jody Bleyle is an American musician, songwriter and independent record label owner.Jody Bleyle first gained public attention in the Pacific Northwest music scene of the 1990s, in the Portland, Oregon–based band Hazel. The group, formed in 1992, released two albums on the Sub Pop label, to critical...

 about the inspiration behind Free To Fight, as well as the practical aspects of releasing it.

This project was continued as a 7-inch split single with Sleater-Kinney

Sleater-Kinney

Sleater-Kinney was an alternative rock band from Portland, Oregon that formed in 1994. Originally formed in Olympia, Washington, the group's name is derived from Sleater-Kinney Road, Interstate 5 off ramp #108 in Lacey, Washington, the location of one of their early practice spaces. They were a...

 and Cypher in the Snow

Cypher in the Snow

Cypher in the Snow were an all women queercore band from San Francisco.One of the band's first appearances was at the Dirtybird Queercore Festival in San Francisco in 1996. This historic festival also featured Tribe 8, Sta-Prest, Behead the Prophet, No Lord Shall Live, The Need and many others...

, also on Candy Ass Records, released in 1998.

Record One

• 1. "Sarah Rides the Greyhound"
• 2. The Third Sex
  The Third Sex
  The Third Sex was a popular queercore band formed in 1993, in Portland, Oregon. The Third Sex featured Trish Walsh on guitar and vocals, Peyton Marshall on bass and vocals -- and, initially, a series of drummers. Although a smaller band, they helped propagate the queercore movement across the country...
  
   - "Monster Snack"
• 3. "Definition of Self Defense"
• 4. Team Dresch
  Team Dresch
  Team Dresch is an American punk band from Portland, Oregon, originally formed in Olympia, Washington, which was initially active from 1993 until 1998. The band made a significant impression on the do-it-yourself movement queercore, which gave voice through zines and music to the passions and...
  
   - "Song for Anne Bannon"
• 5. Mizzery - "Sleep'n Wit' the Enemy"
• 6. "Violence Is Violence"
• 7. Sue P. Fox (with Rachel Carns
  Rachel Carns
  Rachel Carns is a queer musician, composer, artist and performer currently living in Olympia, Washington, U.S.. Raised in small-town Wisconsin, she went on to study painting and drawing at Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City, where she completed her B.F.A. in 1991...
  
  ) - "Killing Your Clone Is Still Murder"
• 8. Rebecca Gates - "Carnation Red"
• 9. "Body Language"
• 10. Fifth Column - "Don't"
• 11. "Yelling"
• 12. 151 - "Real Defense"
• 13. "Make a Scene"
• 14. Containe - "The Martyr"
• 15. "Assertiveness Practice"
• 16. Nikki, Jen, Rueben - "New Terror Story"

Record Two

• 17. The Lois
  Lois Maffeo
  Courtney Love is an American musician and writer who lives in Olympia, Washington. Although never achieving mainstream success, she has been closely involved with and influenced many independent musicians, especially in the 90s Olympia, Seattle and DC based musician.-as Lois Maffeo:albums*The...
  
   (Lois) - "St. What's Her Name"
• 18. "Alice's Story"
• 19. "Primary Targets"
• 20. "Target Practice"
• 21. "Striking"
• 22. Cheesecake - "Disgracias"
• 23. "Laura Sister Nobody Crosses the Street"
• 24. Axteca X - "Daddy's Crazy"
• 25. Heavens to Betsy
  Heavens to Betsy
  Heavens to Betsy was an American indie-punk band formed in Olympia, Washington in 1991. They were part of the DIY riot grrrl movement in the punk rock underground in the early 1990s, and were the first band of Sleater-Kinney vocalist/guitarist Corin Tucker....
  
   - "Get Out of My Head"
• 26. "Sylvia Gets Crazy"
• 27. Excuse 17
  Excuse 17
  Excuse 17 was a punk rock band from Olympia, Washington that performed and recorded from 1993 to 1995.Carrie Brownstein, Becca Albee and CJ Phillips came together to form Excuse 17, a band that would only last a few years but would prove to be influential. Carrie and Becca both played guitar and...
  
   - "Forever Fired"
• 28. Nikki McClure - "Lucky One"