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How to Delete Your Music from Spotify with CD Baby
In case you hadn’t heard, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek is investing the millions of dollars he has leeched from artists into weapons manufacturing. For myself and many other musicians, this is the last straw with Spotify, who has continually devalued…
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Disidentification and Christianity in Queer Art
I learned a new word recently: disidentification. The word comes from José Esteban Muñoz’s foundational work Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics. I learned this from a book on James Baldwin by Christoper Hunt called Jimmy’s Faith.…
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When Everybody’s Needs are Met
Trump has recently pushed a bill to criminalize homelessness. The news reminded me of this poem I had written last year, imagining such a future.
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They Started It—My Experience with Riot Cops this Summer, or, Reflecting on How Media Villainizes the People
It feels like I’m having to explain to my elders all over again, “But they started it.” This time, the “they” is not a sibling or a classmate. It’s federal and municipal agents. This summer, ICE has raided LA, a…
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My Wish for Pride this Year is Solidarity with Immigrants
In this Pride blog, I’m speaking primarily to a queer audience, an audience that is, unfortunately, as is normative, mostly white, calling us in to greater solidarity and away from white supremacy. My wish for Pride is: I wish every…
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Touch Flowers
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Use a Spring Reverb on an Organ
I always had such a hard time getting electric organs like B3s to sit right in a mix. Then I recently learned spring reverbs were first designed for use in electric organs. Armed with this knowledge, I put a spring…
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The Problem of Loudness
Or, I’m an Artist: How Loud Should my Recording Be?
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How I Celebrated Easter This Year
In which I do some liberation theology and critique American Christianity
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One Way to Fear Others Less
Traveling as a gender-nonconforming person is disquieting. But, and this may sound hokey, one thing that legitimately helps me fear strangers less is remembering that everyone is beloved. When I imagine someone deeply loves this stranger before me (who triggers…