oh, rise the proletariat
red banners unfurled
let’s mend the failures of history
and the manmade world
let’s mend the failures of the profit system
let’s rewrite the law books
quit following the path of least resistance
cuz that’s what makes the river crooked
I recently listened through her self-titled album. Very pretty voice. Her songs felt like slam poetry. It was entirely unique from anything else I heard.
Yeah, I hadn't heard of her until the recent re-issue of her self-titled. I'm a big fan! Your description as "slam poetry" is very apt. Indie folk slam poetry.
Yeah, I can't remember which songs specifically, but she's done stuff with Utah Phillips.
Damn, it appears she did entire albums with Utah Phillips. Props Ani, you're somehow even cooler than I thought.
Check out songs like Serpentine from her album Evolve. She's had anti-capitalist politics for a long time.
my first GF, the queerest straight cis woman i've ever known, was really into DiFranco. so i heard a lot of her stuff from the 90s didn't know she was so overtly commie
Always knew she was left, and she did work with Utah Phillips (anarchist?) , but during Obama's first term, I remember reading an interview she did with some left media, she gave the cringest lib Obama apologist answers that I stopped following her stuff.
i remember that! thats why i always assumed she was just a radlib. happens to us all, glad she's shaken that off
I hope she changed, but I have a very hard time looking past this incident (CW: TERFism) that happened as recently as 2019. It is deeply unserious for one to "both sides" this kind of matter (as it is with... a lot of matters.)
[If you wish to read the passage on Hexbear instead...]
You write that you sympathize with both sides regarding Michfest’s trans-exclusionary guidelines: “I understand the need for trans women to find community with and be accepted by other women, and I understand the need for people with reproductive systems, perceived female at birth, to make space to process their particular relationship to patriarchy.” The need for an exclusive space, I don’t get that, as a stupid man. Could you explain to me why? It seems to me that in your life, as a cis woman, you encounter many other cis women with whom you can discuss reproduction. To have an institution that excludes such a tiny piece of the population would seem only to serve to hurt those people.
oh wow I really haven't dived deep enough into DiFranco's catelogue, I had no idea she collaborated with Prince. That's awesome. Great song too.
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