Results for: meet up
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Creative Interviewing Creatives: “Asymmetrical Artist” Victoria Canal’s New EP Will Make You Feel Something
You may have heard Victoria’s recent single in a Nike campaign to promote their Jordan Flyease, a shoe designed for athletes with disabilities. Victoria just dropped her new project “Victoria”. She talks with me about what it means to be an “Asymmetrical Artist,” her shoe deal with Nike, an Academy Awards red carpet rendezvous, and her newest music release!
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Creative Interviewing Creatives: Mila Jam Is the Artivist the World Needs Right Now
“Most production companies and organizations feel like they check off their list of requirements by having one of us in the room. We need more inclusivity in lead roles, as well as behind the scenes. There is a lack of positive representations of black trans women. Why are we not celebrating the accomplishments of a demographic of women that overcome extreme adversity? We are beyond prostitution. We are more than secrets.”
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The Single Queer’s Quarantine Playlist
There aren’t a ton of songs specifically about vague longing in the middle of a global pandemic, so consider this playlist a narrative journey of feelings.
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WAP Is Still Bringing Wet Ass Joy To Queer Black Twitter
Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion set Queer Black Twitter ablaze with WAP. The lyrics, the video, and strong femme sexuality have kept it on replay — and give us permission to be audacious in the pursuit of pleasure.
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Mal Blum on Writing Music for “Trinkets,” Queer Representation, and the Trans Narratives of Bruce Springsteen
“Whether it’s the gay internet or a show like ‘Trinkets’ it makes it easier to be like maybe I’m not the one that’s wrong. Maybe everyone around me is wrong.”
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Every Fiona Apple Song, Ranked by Existential Despair
“Every single verse of this is like getting clocked in the side of the head with a Yankee candle.”
(Now including new, fresh rankings from “Fetch the Bolt Cutters”!)
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Tegan and Sara are Just Like You on Their Excellent New Album
Tegan and Sara have mined through their pasts, found the gems, and put together a poignant ode to their past selves. We can live vicariously through their public vulnerability and imagine — without evidence — that if we did the same, we’d be charmed, rather than horrified, by what we found.
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Were We Ever So Young: A Retro High School Deep Dive with Tegan and Sara
Inspired by their vulnerability and the powerful throwback energy of high-school-age Sara and Tegan, we’ve cracked open our own high school diaries to show you our deepest, darkest, gayest secrets and send a little love and perspective back through time on who we’ve been.
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Sister Duo REYNA Is Bringing You Queer Pop Perfection from the Midwest
Milwaukee based REYNA (Victoriah and Hannah Gabriela Banuelos) has some perfectly crafted queer pop you’ll love, and they’re gearing up for their biggest year yet.
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Queer Your Ears April 2019: New Releases from Queer & Trans Artists
It’s a great time to be queer and/or trans music fan! There was SO MUCH incredible music to cover 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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Queer Your Ears: New Music by Queer & Trans Artists from January 2019
This month, there are some wintry tracks for relaxing and looking out the window at a rainy day, as well as some upbeat stuff for breaking out of the doldrums. And a bunch of stuff in between.
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Pansexual Iraqi-Syrian Musician Wafia Doesn’t Have to Explain Herself
Wafia and I chatted about being brown, queer, Muslim, and how those things influence her as an artist.
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Meet Cutting Room Floor, Your New Favorite Self-Described Sad Gay Band
If you’re looking for Cutting Room Floor on social media, you’ll find them under the moniker “Sad Gay Band.” It’s sort of a joke, it’s also not an exaggeration – it might even be an understatement, both with regard to being gay and to being sad. Sink/Swim is their latest album, and it’s been over three years in the making.
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Day in the Life: Queer High Priestess of Pop Frankie Simone
Spend an evening in photoessay with queer Puerto Rican musical artist Frankie Simone, read a page from her childhood journal, and check out the premiere of her new video for LOVE//WARRIOR!
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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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Day in the Life: On Tour With Australian Songwriter Alex Lahey
I met up with singer-songwriter Alex Lahey while on tour at her San Diego show.
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Playlist: My 2018 Brand Is Queer Lady Magician
Being a Queer Lady Magician to me means sharing the truths of our lives in unexpected, thought-provoking ways, instilling a sense of wonder, expanding our imaginations around what is possible.
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Playlist: Sometimes Queer Trans Girls Find Love in the South, Too
“Country music reminds me of long drives to and away from home, of long conversations on porches with friends and lovers, of something we’re told in a million and one ways isn’t for us and still — we make it ours anyways.”