Results for: be the change
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Songs for Your Gay Pain: A Playlist for Leaning into the Longing
As a known homosexual, my two greatest skills are yearning and making playlists.
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Dykes and Their Emotional Support Albums
I can’t help but wonder: What is each dyke stereotype of your past listening to during COVID lockdowns?
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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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It’s Chika 1, Rap Industry 0 With Her Debut EP “Industry Games”
Chika’s debut EP drops TODAY an she’s re-introducing herself with a major bang! Conscious, thoughtful, craftsperson-ly lyricism and bombastic beats. I can’t wait.
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VIDEO PLAYLIST: These Bangers from Rhythm + Flow’s Lesbian Rapper Londynn B
Londynn B is a lesbian Cardi B by way of Grace Jones — all charisma, swagger, and sex. With the bars to back it up.
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What Your Sad White Girl Music of 2019 Means for Your 2020
There were a lot of very strong albums in the Sad White Girl creative space to vibe with while eating parmesan crisps in bed and watching Bon Appetit videos. Which one defined your 2019? What does it tell us about the year to come?
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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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PHOTOESSAY: K. Flay Performs at Brooklyn Steel on her ‘Solutions’ Tour
A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to photograph Flay’s show in Brooklyn, and – I don’t say this lightly – it was one of the best concerts I’ve been to this year.
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Six Songs You Love That Are Actually About Being Trans
I’m not trying to win you over to my interpretation of the lyrics of any of these songs; but I am inviting you to explore the world within each of them. Looking at songs we love through a trans lens can teach us new things about our gender.
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MUSIC VIDEO PREMIERE: Lafemmebear’s “If” Embraces Black Queer Self-Love
“Many of Lafemmebear’s songs are full of righteous anger. This one is full of righteous caring, righteous love, righteous affection.”
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Tegan and Sara’s “High School” Will Fill You With ’90s Nostalgia, Heal Your Teenage Heart
There’s something extra special about the High School audiobook, and not just because it features the rough cassette recordings of the songs that make up their new album, or because they read their own chapters with their own voices, or because they interview each other for maybe the first time ever. It just feels real and ever so soft.
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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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With “Pity Boy,” Mal Blum Is Ready to Be Seen
Plus, the new music video for “See Me” was filmed by Straddlers, featuring Straddlers, at A-Camp!
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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 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 September 2019: New Releases from Queer & Trans Musicians
Whether you had a #hotgirlsummer or not, it’s time for #feelingsfall.
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Queer Your Ears October 2019: New Music From Queer & Trans Musicians
It’s fall, so #feelingsfall continues — Claud has some baby gay angst anthems, Heather Mae has all the feelings if you want to cry, and Big Thief gets raw and vulnerable.
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Why Is It So Damn Hard to Build a Good Lesbian Breakup Playlist?
I don’t want to put any songs on my breakup playlist that any of my exes have used, or are using, to woo their new girlfriends.
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Queer Your Ears August 2019: New Releases from Queer & Trans Artists
I was surprised by some really inventive indie pop this month!
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Queer Your Ears June 2019: New & Upcoming Releases from Queer & Trans Artists
I’m interested in Pride as a time for angry resistance! As such, I’ve got a bunch of new queer rock music to share.