A conversation with Rae Spoon and Wax Mannequin
Talking shop with two of Canada's most acclaimed singer-songwriters
By Amelia Thorpe-Gosley
http://www.argosy.ca/view.php?aid=41996Yesterday was the Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR), and Rae, you played a song in honour of this day. Would you mind telling us about the importance of the Day of Remembrance, and the importance of being out as transgender musician?
Rae: I wrote the song for my friend named Joan, and she is trans and I basically wrote it as a song about the dangers of walking around when you look a certain way and how this translated in both of our towns. We were both experiencing this kind of danger, and how nice it was to meet someone else who was having a similar experience. It ended up being a love song about sticking together. I think the TDoR is really important, being trans is one identifier and then there's other identifiers that go along with it, depending on your class and culture and where you're living, all this stuff it all plays into it, so I think it's a good unifying day. Hopefully it inspires support. There are people all over, I think it's really important to me...
