Results for: be the change
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Julia Nunes Is Relentlessly Personal: On New Music, Big Changes, and Community Being Crucial
Julia Nunes has been self-producing her music for almost ten years, and her newest album “Ughwow” is a drastic change from her old sound in the best way possible. We talk about the work of being a human and how that’s showing up in her creative work lately.
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Celebrating Ten Years of She Shreds Magazine: An Interview with Fabi Reyna
“In my opinion, music is the tool for distributing change through culture, through messaging, through community and collective vision.”
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Soul Train Awards Reject the Cis-Tem, Rename Gendered Award for Janelle Monáe
And ICYMI, they also won a top-off with Usher in Vegas right before Thanksgiving. Big week for Janelle Monáe.
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Joy Oladokun’s “Proof of Life” Will Save Your Soul
With soulful refrains and sounds that wrap you in warmth, it’s a reminder that we’re not so alone in this sh*t of a world.
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A Holiday Gift Guide For Your Favorite Gaylor
Whether you’re a general Gaylor, a Swiftgron shipper (hello my people), or a Kaylor, there’s something for you here.
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10 Mountain Goats Songs, Ranked by Transness
I’m not alone in my obsession with finding themes of gender oppression and transformation in their raw, high-wire, indie-rock lyrics about tragedy, monstrosity, drugs, and sickness.
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Gossip Returns to the Queer Music World They Helped Create With ‘Real Power’
When Gossip announced their new album at the end of last year, it felt as if the creative universe was realigning itself and letting some of our original heroes come share in the glory of it all.
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Reneé Rapp Transports Coachella Crowd to 2004 With Original ‘L Word’ Cast Introduction
Reneé Rapp had her fans talking, laughing, loving, breathing, fighting, f*cking, crying, drinking, riding, winning, losing, cheating, kissing, thinking, dreaming at Coachella.
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Just Waiting To Be Found
For my entire childhood, I spent every summer in the Appalachian Mountains.
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I Saw MUNA and boygenius and All I Got Was a Surge of Queer Joy
I finally understood that sacred feeling one can get in a religious service.
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Karol G’s “Contigo” Aches With the Longing of a Thousand Sapphic Suns
If you watched two Latinas fall in love with promises of not wanting to live life without the other, against one of the most infectious beats of the year, and all you could think about was if it counted as “queer-baiting”… you maybe missed the point?
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On *NSYNC and Being a Lesbian Who Loves Boy Bands
If you had to make me into a pie chart, being queer and loving *NSYNC are basically the same size.
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The 2024 Grammys Were All About Multiple Generations of Gays Winning and Looking Hot
As a community we may never recover from that close-up of Tracy Chapman’s fingers, but there’s so much else to celebrate: boygenius, Victoria Monét, Brandi Carlile, and more!
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Janelle Monáe’s New Single “Float” Is Here, The Reign of Galaxy Pansexuals Starts Immediately
“Listen lil’ mama, you like shibari? Watch while I show you the ropes.”
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24 of the Best Songs by Queer Artists in 2023
At a time when rights for marginalized people have never been more perilous, consuming art made by queer and trans people feels particularly necessary and sacred.
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Sapphic Yearning, Explained by a Playlist
The true meaning of sapphic yearning, as explained by a very gay playlist.
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What Little Mix’s “Secret Love Song Pt. 2” Meant to Queer Fans in 2017
When I found this album, I was beginning to abstractly explore my sexuality for the first time since I was a teenager.
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Janelle Monáe’s “Lipstick Lover” Music Video Has Fully Melted Our Brains
This queer Black feminist sex positive pool party has shattered everything inside me.
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Sorry Straights, These Karaoke Songs Belong to the Lesbians
Look, who else is holding on to relationships for too long in the way that we queers are? Who else “got somebody here but I want you” the way we do?
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Victoria Monét’s “Jaguar II” Is Fighting for Queer R&B’s Life
Very few have clawed their way to the status of being R&B’s up and coming It Girl, let alone while crooning about a preference for short fingernails or cracking a joke that “it’s a bisexual blunt, it can go both ways.”