It was January 2007 and I needed a new band to grow up with. Having returned to Philly from Sleater-Kinney’s “last” show in Portland, OR only five months previously, I was now left with a new (in name, at least) … Read the rest
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Listening to Holly Miranda During COVID-19
At the start of the fourth week of social distancing in the COVID-19 pandemic, I relistened to the recording for one of my favorite concerts of all time, the album release show for Holly Miranda’s The Magician’s Private Library at … Read the rest
Lana Del Rey, FKA twigs, and Careful Romanticism
2019 was a year—and the 2010s were a decade. The 2010s were a time of massive change and growth for me. Throughout the decade, I lived in four cities: Philly, Brooklyn, Austin, and New Orleans. I was affiliated with four … Read the rest
Sleater-Kinney and the Space of Queer/Female Friendship
This post was originally going to be called “What It Means to Listen to Sleater-Kinney Now as a Queer Woman.” It was going to be a talk-back piece, one of those blog posts you write to insert yourself into a … Read the rest
They Want to Dignify, Analyze, and Terrorize You
We’re queer women and we’re exhausted.
It’s about a week before Christmas and we’re gathered in the still-being-renovated Market Hotel in Bushwick for the last of Sleater-Kinney’s handful of December NYC shows. This “we” has layers. The 300 of us … Read the rest