Homegrown trans rocker Evan Greer keeps her music political
Mother knows best
By LIZ PELLY | May 23, 2012
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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.