Two spirits
Posted on 28 Oct 2010 at 7:15pm
Trans singer Antony Hegarty talks up gloom in his essays and on his band's latest CD
LAWRENCE FERBER | Contributing Writer
http://www.dallasvoice.com/spirits-1049945.htmlAntony Hegarty wants you to gut him with sticks.
In "Wild Life," the essay that closes his art book, Swanlights (a companion to his new album of the same name), the transgender-identified musician with Antony and the Johnsons reveals a deep connection to the earth, nature and environment and detachment from the industrialized, Judeo-Christian society at large. That includes a description of the way he wishes to go.
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I've been spending so much time researching indigenous cultures, especially for instance the "two spirit" tradition in Native American culture, which affords a privileged seat for the transgender members of their community — a creative, shamanistic seat. I was really inspired by that.
