12 April 2024 - Music, Community, and How We Become Gender Identity Weekly

Today's episode features Mx. Crys/ta Song, a Speech Language Pathologist and vocalist who is also Board Co-Chair of Queer Oriented Radical Days of Summer (QORDS).  Crys/ta and I talk about such topics as why the South should not be discounted as a political forum, how we cannot help but be part of humanity, and obscure William Makepeace Thackeray quotes.
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REFERENCES:
Follow Crys/ta Song on Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/mx.singasong/
QORDS website:  https://qords.org/
Follow QORDS on Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/Qords/
Follow QORDS on Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/qords_camp/
Transcend NYC Chorus:  https://www.transcendsings.org/
“Braiding Sweetgrass:”  https://milkweed.org/book/braiding-sweetgrass
Quote from “The Crow:”  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6sz0mgQL_A

(00:00) - Opening credits

(00:37) - Show opening

(01:32) - Introducing Crys/ta Song

(02:31) - The beauty in pure vocal sounds

(06:11) - Applying sound to the human experience

(09:52) - Genderless choir

(12:23) - Music Theory for Cis/Het White Dudes

(15:11) - Gendered Voice for Cis/Het White Dudes

(20:59) - Healing through community connections

(27:15) - Chosen family is different from the labels we adopt

(31:07) - Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children

(35:55) - Stay aloof or be in the human community?

(43:12) - Why it's worth investing in the South

(49:44) - Transformation during Queer Oriented Radical Days of Summer

(57:10) - Can QORDS help youth with recalcitrant parents?

(01:01:41) - Finding Crys/ta in the Universe

(01:03:21) - Show closing

(01:04:54) - Closing credits