when your dude friend doesn’t respect women in front of you, and she says, “HEY, THAT GUY IS DISRESPECTFUL!”
and you say, “that’s just how he is.”
and then *years later* you tweet, “i didn’t know.”
i’m gonna say, “yeah that’s fucking bullshit.”
men asking if they ever abused anyone to be held accountable. is this not fucking backwards? it’s on you. like i’m here for the progress and change of it all. but also just because you ask doesn’t mean someone feels comfortable enough to come forward.
EXAMINE YOUR OWN CONDUCT.
idk man. my mom is really sick. it’s so heavy. we talk about the future, and we cry, and it kills me. hug and love your people. time is real and it’s brutal.
DAMN. lemme say, losing your mom is fucking brutal. but goddamn. to have xmas one week & a day after the fact is especially rough. thank goddess for my dad and sister and brother and sister-in-law and aunt and besties.
wrote my first song since my mom passed and sent it to my dad and i’m just gonna miss her calling me telling me it’s one of the best things i’ve made. her pride in her kids was so wildly unwavering and i miss it 🥺
i’ll just say, as a woman, it’s tough to be a musician. lotsa white dudes have a lot of the power & choose to abuse it. i fucking hate that.
so it says something about how much other non-men and i love making music that we choose to fight that fight and look out for each other.
my man: i wanna be driving around listening to
@TheCurrent
sometime and hear one of your songs.
me: yeah, that’d be cool! i think they still play a couple of my songs every now and then.
*five seconds later*:
“i’ll try to come to one of your shows at (venue), i have a friend that works there and can get me in.”
but bro, you could just pay less than $20 for a ticket to support artists 🤷🏻♀️
a little scary to tell a talent buyer, “we’re gonna need more money if you want us to play.” but also, i know what my band brings to the table so 🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️
my boss & other besties from work (and regular lyfe, lookin at you Ash!) came to my show on Fri and my boss came up to me this morning and told me how proud he was of me 🥹🥹🥹
guys not to brag… but!!! i got quoted comparing shania’s music to mcdonald’s diet coke in an article today and the queen herself shared my story to her instagram. so i made it 🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️
i was rejected twice this week, which is high-key hilarious. and i just watched the shania doc on netflix and am FOREVER CHANGED 😎😎😎
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📷: Jason Ehrreich
damn, i ~*clearly*~ had the time of my goddamn life at the Senses Working Overtime: XTC Tribute on Friday at the
@TurfClubMN
🥹🥰
📷: Paul Lundgren (he got me again 🙏)
i have this memory of when i visited my mom in the hospital last october. when i walked into her room, she was SO happy to see me that she started shaking and happy-crying. and then she told me she had missed me so much.
and wowww. i miss her so much. 🤍
we don’t report sexual assault/rape because the system does not support the victims & survivors. it supports the abusers.
we’ve been conditioned to blame ourselves. to bury the trauma. to bypass healing.
recently, someone from one of the high schools i attended said to me, “can’t wait to hear you on the radio someday!”
and i wanted to say, “just turn on the radio then!”
because i’m a dick. 😩
hi, friendly reminder that the way you speak to people is important. and the things you say about people often times gets back to them. be kind, life is too short.
fully vaccinated mother’s day 💐
first time my immediate fam is spending time as *just our little crew* since we found out about my mom’s cancer recurrence in the summer of 2019...
BEST BELIEVE I’M SOAKING IT UP Y’ALL, esp cuz her CT scan came back clean af a couple weeks ago!
sometimes i have to remind myself that i write music and perform because i love it, not because i want to play at a pizza place at 9pm while 15 other bands are playing within half a mile of me at the same time 😇