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Homegrown trans rocker Evan Greer keeps her music political

Started by Shana A, May 24, 2012, 09:07:27 AM

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May 24, 2012, 09:07:27 AM
Homegrown trans rocker Evan Greer keeps her music political
Mother knows best
By LIZ PELLY  |  May 23, 2012

http://thephoenix.com/Boston/music/139045-homegrown-trans-rocker-evan-greer-keeps-her-music-/

Last month, when Tommy Gabel of Against Me! announced via Rolling Stone that she's transgender (and will now go by Laura Jane Grace), I immediately wondered what Evan Greer might be thinking.

Not only does Greer have the perspective of a transwoman punk singer, she also has a song specifically about Against Me! on her first record, Never Surrender.

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Greer, 27, has been using music as a tool for engaging with radical social movements for more than 10 years. With a posi-pop vocal inflection and radical anarcho-punk urgency, she has traveled internationally, selling thousands of copies of self-burned CD-Rs full of folk-punk songs fighting sexism, racism, homophobia, climate change, apathy, corporate greed, and more.
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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