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How to Write a Feminist Protest Song: A Call to Action
“A political song offers resistance to an abstraction of the social order; a lament cannot be considered political unless it includes some spirit of opposition to the condition depicted. Neither is a work song political, for our purposes, unless there is more resistance than bitterness to the worker's complaint.” (source)
This video essay aims to educate viewers on feminist protest music while teaching them how they might create their own!
I Love Him, He Love's Me Not: Reimagining Schubert's Queerness
My artistic goal through this creative re-interpretation of Schubert’s works was to create classical protest music.
I think that the idea of writing over Schubert’s text with a queer narrative challenges current perspectives on the current gendered field of classical music, emphasizes the creation of space for queer presence where there was none, and distances us from societal rules about the hierarchy of “good” music.
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How We Get Free: A Guide to Political Activism
This paper explores the possible solutions of ending oppression through the book How We Get Free: The Combahee River Collective Statement and investigation on the ways in which bias and intention in education and social spheres scandalize influence on a person's ability to understand identity and oppression.
Exploring Life in Apartheid: Vuyisile Mini
This podcast explores life in South Africa during Apartheid through the lens of Vuyisile Mini.
Vuyisile Mini was a unionist, Umkhonto we Sizwe activist, singer and one of the first African National Congress members to be executed by apartheid South Africa.
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