Cher Strauberry (born 1992) is an American skateboarder and musician. Some of the bands she has formed are Evil Twins, Pookie & the Poodlez and Twompsax.
At age 16, Strauberry discovered 924 Gilman Street in Berkeley, an all-inclusive and all-ages collective music venue and she became a regular at east bay punk shows. She joined Nobunny and also formed her own band Pookie And The Poodlez. The band was active from 2012 to 2016 and put out 2 Lps, a cassette and 2 split EPs.
In 2017 she put out a cassette under the name Evil Twins together with Stevie Shakes. Her next project was Twompsax, an Oakland based crew of friends turned bandmates. Ian plays the drums, Izzy plays guitar, Tris plays bass and Strauberry sings. In the vein of bands like Blatz and Limpwrist, the band trades in aggressive, fast, short and catchy songs that make you want to dance and scream. Some songs directly tackle trans issues like “Trap,” a driving freak punk anthem about taking transphobic and homophobic slurs and turning them into something powerful. “Chelsea Hair” is a sweet and bouncy 30-second pop banger that traverses punk hair politics, feeling cute, and experiencing the cisgender gaze in public. Twompsax’s latest cassette “Disgusting Me Out,” was recorded by the band in a Texas bedroom- turned-studio.
Her solo album, Chering is Caring came out in June 2021 on Silver Arrow Records. The Lp brings together recordings from the past two years of Cher’s life, including major losses and heartaches, explosive moments of joy and love, and no-holds-barred punk ruminations on where life has brought her to this point. It bridges together her adolescent obsession with “zine culture”, her deep connection with the 90s Riot Grrrl movement, and her own journey of self-discovery, to create an experience that is enlightening, enveloping and more than a little charming.
