It's Not Like Somewhere Along The Way

I Need To See My Friends Or I'm Gonna Go Crazy. I'm Not Gonna Stay Home And Work.

There's Still A Lot Of Misogynist Pop Music Out There, And I Think That Hearing Something That's So Explicitly Feminist And So Angry - When We're Still Growing Up In A Culture Where Girls And Women Are Not Supposed To Be Angry - Is A Real Revelation For Young Women.

I Talked A Lot Early On In My Career About Intersectionality And How Racism And Classism And Sexism And Homophobia And Capitalism Are All Connected With Each Other, And They're These Crazy Systems That Are Feeding On Each Other And Are Also Damaging. I Can't Even Go Into The Whole Spectrum Of It. But I Feel Like Kids Today Are So Much More Savvy About That Conversation. And I'm So Thrilled When I Get To Meet Younger People Who Are Doing That So Much Better Than I Did.

The Idea That Musicians/artists Have A Responsibility To Be Community Leaders Or "role Models" Is Problematic To Me Because I Really Believe That Some Of The Most Exciting Art Is Not Community-minded At Least In Any Obvious Or Direct Way, Which Is Not To Say That It Is Not Ethical Or Consciousness-changing.

I Feel Like That When I Read Certain Feminist Blogs Or Feminist Magazines, Where It's Not Even So Much We've Gone Backwards, It's That I'm Bored. Or It's Like, Oh Wow, Kids Today Are Still Dealing With The Same Exact Issues.