[1] The 21-year-old Cervenka met 23-year-old musician John Doe at a poetry workshop at the Beyond Baroque Foundation in Venice, California.

Doe asked Cervenka to join soon after as a co-lead vocalist, and the duo were also the band's primary songwriters.

[5] In 1982, Cervenka published Adulterers Anonymous, her first in a series of four books in collaboration with artist Lydia Lunch.

[7][8] In 1999, as Exene Červenková, she appeared in the cult video Decoupage 2000: Return of the Goddess, along with guests Karen Black and the band L7.

She gave a reading of her poem "They Must Be Angels," and appeared in an interview skit with Decoupage 2000 hostess Summer Caprice.

[12] Cervenka moved from Los Angeles to Jefferson City, Missouri,[2] for four years, and then returned to Southern California.

[21] Cervenka has provoked controversy on social media and YouTube, under the name "Christine Notmyrealname," by advancing conspiracy theories, including that the Isla Vista shootings were a hoax designed to bring about stricter gun control laws.