Results for: work in progress
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Grammy Nominations 2024: Janelle Monáe, boygenius, and Victoria Monét Are Queering Awards Season
The 2024 Grammy nominations were announced this morning at 8am PST and let me tell you they are GAY GAY GAY.
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“Forever Means” EP Creates Perfect Bridge Between Angel Olsen’s Past, Present, and Future
As I finished the EP, I found myself immediately starting it over to listen again from the beginning.
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Eight LGBTQ+ Country Music Singers on Pride and Queering Country
Harlan Howard said “All you need to write a country song is three chords and the truth” — I’m pretty sure queer folks have a lot of truth to tell.
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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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Obsessed: Woodstock ’99’s Fire Fest of White Boys Mad About Stuff
A new Netflix documentary looks at the infamous Woodstock 99 festival, a weekend of bathing in sewage, crowd-surfing with Fred Durst, throwing bottles of urine at Carson Daly, $4 waters, assault, arson and death.
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Every Song on Tegan and Sara’s “So Jealous,” Ranked
The melodrama of So Jealous is hard to resist. It’s emotionally indulgent heartbreak music, whether your heart is breaking or not. And now, it’s back.
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Creative Interviewing Creatives: Mint Simon Is the Non-Binary Voice the Music Industry and Queer Community Both Need
Mint Simon, the brand new solo project from the lead singer of alternative pop trio Caveboy, talks with me about finding fluidity in gender and sexuality during quarantine and re-emerging more themselves than ever.
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The Drop: When Will Black Queer Artists Realize That Fat Black Girls Need Love Too?
These music videos just perpetuate the idea that you have to look a certain way to be worthy of love.
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A Weaver of Unique Variety: The Magic and Legacy of Debbie Friedman
In her life, Debbie Friedman did not want to be defined by her sexuality, but there’s something that feels queer about her music. The hidden history, the lyrics about liberation and joy, and, yes, a whole lot about women dancing with timbrels.
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Queer Your Ears November 2019: New Music From Queer & Trans Artists
Whether you’re going all in on cuffing season, hunkering down to hibernate, or reliving your goth phase in this leather jacket weather, we’ve got tunes for you.
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Queer Your Ears May 2019: New & Upcoming Releases from Queer & Trans Artists
I feel like we have some deeper, more interesting, more contemplative stuff here at Queer Your Ears this month.
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Queer Your Ears: The 50 Best Albums Of The 2010s By Queer & Trans Musicians
The 2010s was an incredibly gay decade in music. Queer and trans musicians gained more visibility and success than ever before over the last 10 years! Here are the best 50 albums of the decade, according to me.
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Julia Weldon’s “Comatose Hope” Captures the Anger and Catharsis of Being a Non-Binary Artist
We chatted with Weldon about their new music video for “When You Die,” their upcoming NYC show, and the revival of their childhood acting career.
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Ani DiFranco Has a Song From 20 Years Ago That Works For This Moment
With her 20th studio album out and a tour with Andrea Gibson on the horizon, the li’l folksinger talks politics, activism, and why she’s still getting happier as she gets older. She also called me babe.
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Lauren Jauregui is Bisexual: “Fifth Harmony” Singer Comes Out Gloriously In A Biting Open Letter To Trump Voters
Fifth Harmony member Lauren Jauregui is a proud bisexual Cuban-American, and also has some very choice words for Donald Trump voters so LISTEN UP.
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Mary Lambert Is Your Patronus: The Autostraddle Interview
“My hunger for success is a hunger to connect with as many people as possible, and for us all to help each other along this journey. That’s what I thrive on.”
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Lost Loves and Missed Connections: The Mixtape
It’s lovely and strange how a song can cast light on memories of people you haven’t thought about in years, can press urgently on that soft sad spot we carry for our past.
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Katy Perry Continues Scaling New Heights of Cultural Appropriation
Katy Perry has once again offended a whole mess of people, to the surprise of absolutely nobody.
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Michfest Could Change Its Trans Female Exclusionary Intention Only If It Tried, Only If It Wanted To
LGBTQ rights groups are joining activists, allies and former performers in opposing Michfest’s trans-female-exclusionary intention, and if Michfest wants to attract new fans, it needs to listen up.
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Nicki Minaj’s Feminism Isn’t About Your Comfort Zone: On “Anaconda” and Respectability Politics
The Feminist Internet is, as usual, scrambling to decide: empowering, or not empowering? If anyone had actually been paying attention to Nicki all these years, they’d already know the answer.