Results for: be the change
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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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The Top 11 Gayest Christmas Songs
Ring-a-ling-a-ling-a-#dingdong-ding!
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A Playlist for When You Break Up In Autumn
As an 11-year relationship ended and the dust settled around me a couple weeks ago, I realized something: I needed music, I needed someone in my ear telling me everything I’m feeling and seeing wasn’t new and unknowable, that this was A Thing That Happens.
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Playlist: Songs That Give Me That 2:30 Feeling
Is there a German word for happy songs that feel like a wrecking ball to your serotonin levels?
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Exclusive: Slothrust Premiere Sweet New Video For “Pigpen”
Visually, it exists somewhere between a late-90s Smashing Pumpkins video and the Great British Bake-Off on hallucinogens.
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Gloria Carter, Blue Ivy’s Grandma, Comes Out As a Lesbian on Jay Z’s “4:44”
Beyoncé’s husband released a new album, but what I’m excited about is the track titled “Smile” where his mother, Gloria Carter, comes out as a lesbian.
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Playlist: I Bought a Baby Pink Stationary Bike and I’m Okay With Myself
I realized something inside of me had forever changed the first time I was smoking with the windows down and the music loud in my car and thought to myself “Huh, I could imagine myself doing SoulCycle to this song.”
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Vivek Shraya’s New Album “Part-Time Woman” Is a Binary-Breaking Love Letter
Shraya’s lyrics tease apart the ways in which trans girls’ emotional lives are drawings rendered in chiaroscuro, the play of light and shadow: The power and relief of discovering one’s identity in private intertwined with the pain of objectification and sexual violence.
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Hello, Goodbye: From Faking My Taste for Crushes to Falling in Love with Music for Real
Then I met Summer, a junior counselor at the Christian summer camp I went to between sixth and seventh grade. Summer wore a different band shirt almost every day: Rolling Stones, Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd, The Doors, Led Zeppelin. She told me she loved classic rock, and without hesitating, I said “me too.”
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Black Queer Music History, Pt. 3 (1970s-1990s)
This is my favorite era because the variety we hear during this time period is something like never before. Finally, queer black folks get to individually express their identities and aesthetics!
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Playlist: Such A Nasty Woman
Play these songs with the windows down today and drive past a white man’s house. Join the movement.
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Please Let Me Take A Seat: Solange’s New Album and Healing My Black Femme Self
It wasn’t until I listened to A Seat At The Table, that I finally felt like I could put my armor down.
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Not As Weak As We Seem: How Punk Band G.L.O.S.S. Gave Trans Women Our Voice
“Art made by and for marginalized people is vital. It allows us to connect our experiences with others and empowers us by showing us that we are not alone. G.L.O.S.S. resonated with so many trans women because their songs reflected a lived experience which validated our own.”
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Béatrice Martin Of Coeur de Pirate Is Queer
“I can’t be scared that someone will stop listening to my music, or that parents might not want their kids listening to me because of the fact that I want to love whoever I want to love.”
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Girl, It’s Your Time: Trans Artist Vivek Shraya On Finding Freedom and Wholeness
“Gender self-determination is vital and I can feel great about who I am when I am at home. But I live a life where I engage with other people and doing what feels good for me is a lot more challenging when I step outside the door. With pronouns specifically, it’s hard not to feel like you are dependent on others to ‘validate’ your gender, or rather, it’s hard not to feel like your gender is not valid when people use the wrong pronoun.”
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10 Steps to Starting Your Own All-Grrl A Cappella Group
Just because you aren’t on the Mountain right now doesn’t mean you can’t be a part of your very own music and magic making group of friends. I promise you won’t regret it.
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25 Incredible 8Tracks Playlists from Autostraddle Days of Yore
Autostraddle has been around for SEVEN years, and we’ve been making playlists that whole damn time!
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Michelle Chamuel Is More Than That Queer Girl With Glasses From “The Voice”: The Autostraddle Interview
How is it possible that a queer woman who came in second place on NBC’s mega-smash-hit The Voice could, three years later, still be unknown? The short answer is that before Michelle Chamuel could fully tell the world who she is, she had to figure it out herself.
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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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Record Store Day Roundtable: The Best Albums on Vinyl
It’s almost time for Autostraddle’s International Meet Me At The Record Store Day. Let’s talk about our favorite albums on vinyl to get ready!