Watching the world change
Published on April 16, 2011
Justin Brake
http://www.thetelegram.com/Arts%20-%20Life/Festivals%20&%20events/2011-04-16/article-2432247/Watching-the-world-change/1All his life Rae Spoon was confronted with the possibility to conform, but he would rather observe, experience, write, perform and watch the world change instead.
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"That's the thing with identity politics, you never separate (them) from your music or who you are, and that goes for everybody with a gender," he says, explaining how his gender identity is inextricably a part of his artistic expression.
"If you're male-socialized and you want to be a man, then you still have expectations put on you, and everybody has that, so I try to remind myself of that. It's one of the first things that comes up about me because of my voice being high and people being like, 'What, this is a man?'
