“Stay/And show them what you’re made of,” Shawnee sings in “Warrior Heart.” As a two-spirit person, the Canadian Mohawk songstress is a vocal advocate for indigenous youth.
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Recently, Grace told SF Weekly that she feels free - a sensation she never had in the first part of the band’s life.
Since coming out publicly in 2012, Grace has talked often and openly of her identity. The punk rock track seeps the pain and frustration that many transgender people feel. “They just see a faggot / They’ll hold their breath not to catch the sick.” “You want them to see you / Like they see every other girl,” Grace sings. In “Transgender Dysphoria Blues,” Laura Jane Grace of Against Me! tells the tale of gender dysphoria. “Come on over girl / Baby, let me love you,” Ashley croons in the chorus. His first single, “Can’t Wait,” has a catchy pop tune. When Laith Ashley made headlines as one of the first transgender male models to appear in a national campaign, it was only the start. “I got problems, you got problems, they got problems, we all got problems / Why don’t we just run away, come again another day,” Amerasu sings. Star Amerasu, a self-professed “poptronic princess,” chronicles her complicated encounters with anti-anxiety medicines known as benzodiazepines (or benzos) in the song “Klonopin.” The light lullaby peeks into the taboo topic of prescription pill use and abuse. “ Strangers stare and they want to be the first to/ Ask for my life in one word/ But it’s not that simple,” Kergil sings in “Tell Me A Story.” Skylar Kergil, an American activist, singer-songwriter and YouTube personality, has a folk sound that sends a statement. “I wanted to do something that was gonna go down fighting,” Anohni told Pitchfork. Her latest album, Hopelessness, covers issues from climate change to Guantanamo Bay. In “Drone Bomb Me,” Anohni sings of a nine-year-old Afghan girl whose family has been killed by a drone bomb. According to Diamond, the song began as a statement to a world which said she shouldn’t exist and now stands as an anthem “for all those that felt shunned for simply being who they were.”Īnohni is not afraid of tackling topics often considered controversial. “There’s an outcast in everybody’s life / And I am her,” she sings. Shea Diamond, both an activist and a singer-songwriter, belts out the bold anthem “I Am Her” with soul and strength.