Happy 12th Anniversary, World, You Need a Change of Mind
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Dusty Springfield and Norma Tanega - the two were partners from mid 1966 to the early 1970′s
Source: Bandcamp
This part of the KLF Manual will have you feeling a little queasy
1988 white people are at least more honest than 2021 white people tho
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Beyoncé photographed for InStyle, 2003
Happily even in 1977 there were some trans allies!
CW transphobia
For example, this original open letter demanding Olivia Records to break ties with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Stone_(artist)
There’s a really interesting piece to be written about all of the intersections of modern LGBTQI music spaces, with white supremacy, hipster culture, transphobia and selective hypervisibility for white artists too. This piece from 1982 kinda reminds me of now, or at least the possibility that a lot of ground has been covered before - if something isn’t reported, it’s like it never existed.
"I'm now old enough where I have become the subject of college dissertations," the 67-year-old Millington said. And her life has been documented by scholars and a few journalists, most recently in Pitchfork and the BBC documentary Girl In a Band. Yet the incredible richness of Millington's life remains largely unheralded, a fact that Millington hopes will be remedied by the new, enormous memoir detailing the life choices leading up to and encompassing Fanny's rise.
Why is June Millington still mostly unknown, especially now, when the Web is alight with interest in feminist rock and intersectional politics? Here is a virtuoso guitarist who's written myriad songs celebrating women's power; a biracial woman born in the Phillippines who helped pioneer West Coast garage rock and then went on to connect with glam and heavy metal and record at The Beatles' Abbey Road; to play on the best-selling women's music album of all time, The Changer and the Changed and to found a rock and roll camp for girls when the idea of doing so barely existed. Millington has everything it takes to be a mythologized rock hero. There are signs that the recognition due her may finally come, yet she still struggles to be recognized.