Trans Music Part 2

The Gender Rebels Podcast

We're back with even more songs. And this ain't all, there's still a part 3 in your future!

In this episode, we discuss:

Fraulein Wunder Wenn Ich Ein Junge War or "If I Were A Boy". Faith's judgment: a good song.
The Soviettes Middle of the Night
Hole My Beautiful Son and the link shows you a picture of Kurt Cobain looking pretty in a dress and lipstick and pearls at 0:52
Lords of Acid I Like It (best known for the song The Crab Louse about pubic crabs)

James Laid

St Vincent has a song about Candy Darling
Green Day King for A Day
The Replacements and Peter Buck Androgynous
Laura Jane Grace is lead singer of Against Me! and she transitioned in public. One of the band's albums is Transgender Dysphoria Blues.

Pitchfork hates every album.

Trans or queer musicians:
Kim Petras
Romy Haag
Pete Burns of Dead of Alive which you know from "You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)".
Kurt Cobain
New York Dolls
David Bowie

Getting a used toaster as wedding gift is just one of the many objectifying, dehumanizing virginity metaphors Faith was taught. But sure, let's follow that comparison to its conclusion. A used toaster? What if it's just the right toaster for you? What if it's amazing, and it sees you and treasures you for who you are, and it makes you laugh, and it shares your values and interests? Yes, then I wouldn't care if the toaster has a few crumbs in its tray from a previous owner.

Buy Faith's book! It's the mid 1990s, and a high school guy in Georgia is grappling with his queerness, his faith, his friends, and his future in Disgusta by Faith DaBrooke.

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