Mannequin Pussy was formed in October 2010 by friends Marisa "Missy" Dabice and Athanasios Paul, who met when they went to school together.

One of their songs, "Clue Juice", appears on "Leisure Rules", a cassette-only compilation released in July 2012 on the Reeks Of Effort label on Bandcamp.

In the same month, thirteen of their songs were released on one side of a split tour cassette called "Banditos", with Idaho band Art Fad on the Trash Palace Tapes label.

[3] It was later renamed to the self-titled Mannequin Pussy after the band regretted the use of the word "gypsy", which is often used as pejorative against Romani people.

In June 2017, Mannequin Pussy embarked on a European tour, followed by shows in the United States from July to September.

[15] In November 2019, the band's former label Tiny Engines went on hiatus due to an accounting dispute over not paying artists, including Mannequin Pussy.

[21] Two Mannequin Pussy songs, "Who You Are" and "In Love Again", were performed in the 2021 HBO miniseries Mare of Easttown by the fictional band Androgynous.

[24] Pitchfork's Arielle Gordon gave the EP a 7.2 out of 10, and noted "Perfect continues the sophistication of its immediate predecessor while introducing subtle shifts in sound and structure".

[26] On Saturday, October 30 the band members awoke to find that someone had stolen their 2012 Econoline touring van with attached U-Haul trailer, containing over $50,000 worth of equipment.

[28] On August 28, the band released the single "I Got Heaven" alongside a music video directed by Mason Mercer and Anthony Miralles set on a farm.