12 April 2024 - Music, Community, and How We Become

Today's episode features Mx. Crys/ta Song, a Speech Language Pathologist and vocalist who is also Board Co-Chair of Queer Oriented Radical Days of Summer (QORDS).  Crys/ta and I talk about such topics as why the South should not be discounted as a political forum, how we cannot help but be part of humanity, and obscure William Makepeace Thackeray quotes.

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REFERENCES:

Follow Crys/ta Song on Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/mx.singasong/

QORDS website:  https://qords.org/

Follow QORDS on Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/Qords/

Follow QORDS on Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/qords_camp/

Transcend NYC Chorus:  https://www.transcendsings.org/

“Braiding Sweetgrass:”  https://milkweed.org/book/braiding-sweetgrass

Quote from “The Crow:”  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6sz0mgQL_A

• (00:00) - Opening credits
  


• (00:37) - Show opening
  


• (01:32) - Introducing Crys/ta Song
  


• (02:31) - The beauty in pure vocal sounds
  


• (06:11) - Applying sound to the human experience
  


• (09:52) - Genderless choir
  


• (12:23) - Music Theory for Cis/Het White Dudes
  


• (15:11) - Gendered Voice for Cis/Het White Dudes
  


• (20:59) - Healing through community connections
  


• (27:15) - Chosen family is different from the labels we adopt
  


• (31:07) - Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children
  


• (35:55) - Stay aloof or be in the human community?
  


• (43:12) - Why it's worth investing in the South
  


• (49:44) - Transformation during Queer Oriented Radical Days of Summer
  


• (57:10) - Can QORDS help youth with recalcitrant parents?
  


• (01:01:41) - Finding Crys/ta in the Universe
  


• (01:03:21) - Show closing
  


• (01:04:54) - Closing credits