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Gen X Music Was The Best Music For Gen X
Was the music of our generation the best? Does today’s music just not connect as well? Kind of. There’s a lot to unpack. When I was a teenager I got to constantly hear Boomers and the Silent Generation tell me that my music was simply noise. Unless that Boomer was Tipper Gore or a Minister,…
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I’m here, I’m Queer, and I’m Still Figuring It Out
The Intro My understanding of Queer culture and PRIDE came gradually as I grew up in the Midwest. I was not heavily exposed to LGBTQ culture as a kid on the southeast side of Cleveland. The diversity I experienced most was Black culture in my neighborhood and Indian culture due to my best friend. I…
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Why Fem Friday: Powerful Women’s Stories and Struggles
Why does a guy tell Fem Friday stories? Do the stories matter? And what can we do together? Why Fem Fridays Started After my second Fem Friday, a progressive minister told me that a woman should be writing these stories. I told him that I’m a feminist and intentional representation matters. He then told me…
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David Bowie Showed Us How to Be Heroes
To make David Bowie to be a saint or a sinner is to not understand that life exists in the nuance of neither. There are important messages in his art, but also his life. In many ways, Bowie has served as an example of acceptance, intersection, and living life on your terms. As a parent,…
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Pat Benatar is All Fired Up to Be Invincible
Can a bank teller become a rockstar? Can ideals survive realities of misogyny? Is love a battlefield and is hell for children? Pat Benatar’s life and music says yes. Shine Pat Benatar was raised in a home where female empowerment and equality was the norm. She was taught that women were equal and could accomplish…
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The Go-Go’s Gave the World the Gift of Jane Wiedlin
Were the Go-Go’s a punk band or were they a pop band? Did their music change the game for female bands? Is the world a better place with Jane Wiedlin in it? Does Jane Matter today? Is Jane Wiedlan a great song writer and musician as well as an actor and, activist, and a comic…
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Under The Radar: Shawan Rice
Susquehanna Soul I first encountered Rice’s music at a festival along Harrisburg’s Susquehanna River waterfront. At the time she was playing with a band under Shawan & The Wonton. I was just sipping a coffee in a folding chair, enjoy the shade of a hot Memorial Day weekend. The music began and I perked up.…
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The Little Earthquakes Of Tori Amos Briefly Enlightened
Is Tori Amos powerful? Does her music have something to say that matters? Are Sirens sometimes lighthouses? Yes. She almost got through to me for a season. Tori Amos in Brief Tori Amos was a minister’s kid with a deeply religious mother. At 21 she survived a horrific sexual assault at knife point. She was…
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You Oughta Know Alanis Morissette Played God
Could one of the most powerful bad break up songs shake up the music world? Would a break out album inspire many women? Did the singer hold true to her vision of feminism, gender equality, and marriage equality? Is God a woman? If we’re talking about the iconic Alanis Morissette, yes. That Particular Time In…
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Celebrating April’s Rad Growth With a Casey Kasem Style Countdown
Thank you to every reader, Patreon, and contributing columnist. I look at what has happened this last month and I am completely blown away! Any and all goals my team and I set were crushed! In a time where it is more difficult than ever for columnists and audiences to connect in the AI driven…
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