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MINNESOTA WOMEN’S PRESS Music & Movement Featuring Ka Lia Universe PaviElle French Taylor Seaberg Andrea Swensson Specialty Guide: Kids Music & Movement Issue | womenspress.com | May 2020 | Issue 36-5 It takes 10 minutes. Your coffee won’t even get cold. Minnesota Women’s Press Reader Survey Probably the easiest thing you do today. You might even win a gift basket! Go to tinyurl.com/MWP2020RS MINNESOTA WOMEN’S PRESSPOWERFUL. EVERYDAY. WOMEN. “There was a camaraderie, and they were there for the music, too.” — Cyn Collins PHOTO HELEN TEAGUE/REVILER HELEN PHOTO What’s inside? Editor Letter 4 The Song of Life Action = Change 5 Support Small Businesses Tapestry 6 Song of Life Health & Healing 7 Dancing My Body’s Truths Stephanie Murck, Page 14-15 Art of Living 8-9 Navigating the Music Industry Contact Us MWP team 651-646-3968 Publisher/Editor: Mikki Morrissette Identity IN MUSIC 10-13 Submit a story: [email protected] Managing Editor: Sarah Whiting • Natalie Klemond: “Like Me Now” Subscribe: [email protected] Business Strategy Director: Shelle Eddy • Ka Lia Universe: Seeking New Heights Advertise: [email protected] Contributors: DejaJoelle, PaviElle French, Nancy Our mission: Amplify and inspire, with personal Harms, Natalie Klemond, Lainey Lee, Minnesota LGBTQ+ Storytelling 14-15 stories and action steps, the leadership of powerful, Dance Theatre, Sheila Regan, Marcie Rendon, Taylor The Punk Scene: Not Just for Cis Dudes everyday women. Seaberg, Andrea Swensson, Ka Lia Universe Equity 16-17 Community Engagement: Siena Iwasaki Milbauer, Rock & Roll Roots Our vision: We all are parts of a greater whole. Our Lydia Moran, Ryan Stevens, Kassidy Tarala stronger future will be built from the collective energy Indigenous Storytelling 18-19 Digital Development: Mikki Morrissette of women who shift narratives to effect change. A Conversation With Annie Humphrey Photography/Design: Sarah Whiting The Minnesota Women’s Press has been sharing the BookShelf 20-21 voice and vision of women since 1985, as one of the Development Director: Karen Olson Johnson Rewriting Music History to Include Women longest continuously published feminist platforms in the country. Is is distributed free at 500 locations. To Assistant Editor: Lydia Moran GoSeeDo 25 find a copy near you, visit womenspress.com and click Copy Editor: Kelly Gryting Art-A-Whirl, Subversive Sirens, Dance Classes on “find a copy” or call 651-646-3968. Help fund our storytelling with a subscription. Factchecker: Selena Moon In The News 26 Lockdown Music, Rent, Community Care Proofreader: Quinn Dreasler Minnesota Women’s Press LLC Remembering 28 800 West Broadway, Suite 3A Advertising Sales: Shelle Eddy, Ashlee Moser, Dance Pioneer: Loyce Houlton Minneapolis, MN 55411 Ryan Stevens Greater Minnesota Outreach: Angela McLaughlin ©2020 by Minnesota Women’s Press LLC Specialty guides All rights reserved. ISSN #1085-2603 Operations: Alexa Sabel Kids 22-24 Past Publishers: Accounting: Fariba Sanikhatam How Dance Moves Me Mollie Hoben & Glenda Martin (1985-2002) Cover Photo: Ka Lia Universe. Photo by Sarah Whiting Kathy Magnuson & Norma Smith Olson (2003-2017) Classified Ads 29 The Song of Life by Mikki Morrissette and Lydia Moran ne of the things I find most heartening during the COVID-19 crisis has been the livestream performances of musicians. Friends have posted on social media their recordings from home as part of a Livestream Cover Challenge.O “One World: Together at Home,” curated by Lady Gaga on a Global Citizen platform, drew an audience of nearly 21 million. The April event was designed to support healthcare workers and the World Health Organization, and raised more than $100 million to support front-line workers in the coronavirus pandemic. I enjoyed seeing bandmates perform from individual homes, spliced together musically on split screens to create harmony nonetheless. Curated by assistant editor Lydia Moran, we celebrate that collaborative spirit in this issue of the Minnesota Women’s Press. Music Carries Normally in May we celebrate Sitting at my desk as I worked on this issue, I would sometimes the Reader’s Recommend hear the rumble of a subwoofer waft through the crack under winners (formerly known my windowsill as a car inched up the empty street. Or, on the as What Women Want), chosen by readers as favorite back porch, melodies emanating from my neighbor’s apartment businesses and service mixed with evening breezes. providers. As we wait for Perhaps it is a cliché, but music really is the great connector. more of our 500 distribution Hearing it trickle in from the outside world assures me that sites to open, we created this people are savoring this first bit of spring. May issue as our first digital- I have always been jealous of musicians. As someone who only edition. In a later print works with written words, there is something about being at a magazine we will announce live concert, experiencing art with its creators. the 2020 honorees you chose. For this issue, I wanted to highlight storytellers who have made community in music and dance. We feature We postponed the launch of stories about women who find solidarity while navigating a our “35 Years of Minnesota sexist industry, bandmates combating impostor syndrome, Women’s Press” book. Find a sneak peek. musicians who work to shift DIY punk culture, and a dancer who is developing trauma-informed movement for healing. Have you seen our three- In these stories, community is as much about seeing oneself represented as it is part Quaranzine series? finding a connection with others. Without community and representation, in the Stories include a look at music world and elsewhere, it is difficult to feel validated — and feeling validated is gender violence, grieving a crucial part of pursuing your passions. the separation from ailing I encourage you to take this digital issue outside with you as you read on the loved ones, and three porch, stoop, roof, or wherever you can catch a bit of breeze. Spend time listening lessons from Rachel Carson’s to your surroundings. Sound carries even while there is space between us. “Silent Spring.” How can you support Minnesota Women’s Press? Take our biannual survey to help us plan and prepare for the future. Click here to go to tinyurl.com/MWP2020RS 4 | Minnesota Women’s Press | womenspress.com | May 2020 action = change Support Small Businesses COVID-19 has impacted everyone’s lives. While we live in a great state for healthcare and physical distancing standards, which has kept community transmissions per capita lower than most states, our high number of small businesses means we are hard hit economically. We are grateful for the businesses that are able to continue supporting Minnesota Women’s Press during this difficult time. With their support, we are still able to provide our readers with digital-only content this May. Please keep the chain of mutual support going by engaging with these small businesses in this COVID-19 world. 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Sonically, the song I started the surprising journey that has been my life under is filled with things I love: aching, soulful guitar; the groove; the endless prairie sky of Clara City, a Minnesota town of a backup gospel choir; and Lauryn’s powerful, sacred voice. 1,000 people. I spent a lot of time lip-syncing to Janet Jackson But what reached into such a deep place is the message of the with a hairbrush “microphone” in my mom’s beauty shop song — embrace a greater calling, no matter the norm around mirror. I fantasized about singing professionally, but my you. It planted the seed for me to honor the divine part of self dreams were capped by fear. that asks me to stretch out into the epic unknown. My first blow came when I applied for a choral music Details: RisingShiningSHE.com scholarship at the college I wanted to attend. I was not even granted an audition. Singing was what I had been known for What was your pivotal experience with music or in my hometown. Not even an audition? It was an early lesson movement? Click here to share your memories in the in rejection. comments field. After completing my degree in music education, I taught music in a small town. I started experiencing debilitating panic attacks. With the help of incredible friends, I moved to Minneapolis and started claiming things I loved, including June Topic: Breaking the Binary singing at coffeeshops.