🎵 Monthly Song Challenge 🎵

Day 2: A song with a Number in the Title

I jumped down the Lisa LeBlanc rabbit hole, thanks to @PassionatePanther introducing me to her last month. This is about as stripped down as you get -- her, a guitar, and a hopeful lament about distance.

"It's probably the dumbest idea that I ever had, but I love you, yes I really do..."

"5748 km," Lisa LeBlanc.

 
Day 2: A song with a number in the title

Pride is a celebration, absolutely. But Pride was born as a protest. Unfortunately most Pride events have become commercial, what we refer to as rainbow capitalism. I’m not going to get into that here, this isn’t the point.

Two marches that happen at most Pride events are the Trans March and the Dyke March. These have both remained more political, and have mostly kept to the spirit of why the marches are necessary. I remember walking in my first Dyke March, surrounded by all these femmes and studs and butches and androgynous people, by cis, trans, non-binary, gender queer people, all chanting and taking up space that we so often get pushed out of. The queer joy felt in these moments is palpable, of community come together for a common cause.

And that is what this song is about. It’s not Le Tigre’s best song but at its root it is a protest song, a taking up space song, and as such, this is my pick for today.

Technically the number in the title is a year, but a year is still numbers, so ...

Le Tigre - Dyke March 2001

 
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