Local music: Hip-hop in trans-lation


Minneapolis rapper Heidi Barton Stink hopes one day she won't have to explain ->-bleeped-<-. But for now, she's doing it loudly.



Article by: CHRIS RIEMENSCHNEIDER , Star Tribune | Updated: June 21, 2012 - 9:28 PM


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Heidi Barton Stink will perform at several Pride events, including Queertopia at Intermedia Arts.   Photo: R.J. Lawrence

The rock world lit up a couple of months ago when Tom Gabel, frontman of the politico-punk band Against Me!, bravely revealed to Rolling Stone that he has secretly been living a transgender lifestyle and plans to become a woman.

Heidi Barton Stink, for one, seemed blasé about the news.

"It's hard to be transgender, period, but try being a transgender activist and rapper," said the artist legally known as Heidi Foster, who fits all of the aforementioned roles.