Thank you for coming out to the Women’s Persistence March, 2018!
I’ve been a DJ for 10 years on KYRS, hosting “Homegrown Radio” featuring local/regional artists.
You can hear me every Tuesday from 6-8pm
I wanted to make this a totally positive collection, but I felt that the ENVIRONMENT that we live in
is not often not very positive *or* supporting.
And that is one reason we march, right?
I’m sorry if you found some tracks shocking.
Otherwise I hope you enjoy this collection
Consider researching some of the stories behind the music, behind the artists, behind the music…..
there are SO many stories to share, here are just a few of them…
Billy Tipton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Tipton is a recognized Jazz musician who lived in Spokane for most of his life. Billy was born a female, but lived his life openly as a male and enjoyed a recording career as a male in the 1930s through the 1970s.
Mia Zapata https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mia_Zapata was a rising star in the West Coast punkrock scene of the early 90s. Based in Seattle, she was 27 and working on finishing her second album with her band The Gits, when she was raped and murdered walking home from her neighborhood bar one night. Even though she has an immediately recognizable voice, and wrote powerful punk she also remembered for being a senseless victim, targeted because she was female and alone.
Ava Sharifi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDKVnWtAhCU addressing her classmates at Lewis and Clark High school in Spokane. She calls this essay, “We Are All Human”.
Shann Ferch (Shann Ray) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEFIxxtIFsA is a professor of Leadership at Gonzaga University, and published author of short stories and literary fiction. (I LOVED “American Copper”!)
Thanks again!
| # | Artist | Song | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chad Mitchell Trio | Like To Deal With The Ladies | Spokane |
| 2 | Television Material | Locker Room Talk | That man personally said those things. He was speaking for himself. Because he can. |
| 3 | Tacocat | The Internet | Seattle |
| 4 | John Oliver | Voldemort | John is a comedian, speaking for everybody. Because he can. |
| 5 | Bullets or Balloons | Lil' Creeper | Seattle/Spokane |
| 6 | Carl Sagan | Pale Blue Dot/Revisited | Died in Seattle...... speaking for the rest of us. Because he could. |
| 7 | Langston Ward/Carl Sandburg | I Am The People, The Mob | This recording is Langston Ward's winning 2013 performance for the Poetry Out Loud competition in D,C. He was a senior at Mead high school in Spokane, Washington at the time. |
| 8 | No Excuse for Now | You Don't See Me | Pullman/Spokane |
| 9 | The Gits | Bob (Cousin O) | Seattle |
| 10 | Civil Defense (archival footage) | 1957: Spokane is Ready! | Because Spokane is a model city. |
| 11 | Jaeda | Courage (edited) | Spokane/Seattle |
| 12 | Henry Fonda | 16 Yr Old Girls,... | Spoiler: Lady Eve is a man-eater! |
| 13 | Ava Sharifi | We Are All Human [excerpt] | Ava was 17 when she performed her essay "We Are All Human" in front of her classmates at Lewis and Clark high school in Spokane. Full essay available by searching her name on Youtube. Because she could! |
| 14 | Presidential Material | The Snake Poem [excerpt] | Presidential Nominee tells fable at a rally on 8/12/16 in Erie, PA. This is the climax. He is telling it as a parable about the danger of open borders. |
| 15 | Jerin Falkner | Let Down | Seattle/Spokane |
| 16 | Alan J. Wendl and Traci Lords | Sealed Beam Headlights | Great/bad movie! |
| 17 | Tacocat | Men Explain Things To Me | Seattle |
| 18 | Can't Trust Anybody | 1939, and so full of amazing little witticisms! | |
| 19 | The Muzes | Blow Ya Mind | Spokane |
| 20 | Sarah Silverman & Matthew Perry | Can I Make A Suggestion? | Sarah Silverman was going to speak for herself, but then Matthew Perry "had" to play peacemaker. He was a comedian/actor speaking for "himself" (rather than playing himself) on TV. |
| 21 | Bullets or Balloons | System | Seattle/Spokane |
| 22 | Storm Large | 8 Miles (edited) | Portland/Seattle |
| 23 | Grover & Madeline Kahn | Sincere Beauty (Re)mark | Sesame Street tried to teach to see all compliments as kind. |
| 24 | Liz Rognes | Mama Said | Spokane |
| 25 | EXPLICIT - Raymond Gates | That's What Happens, Ya know? | Ohio man explaining himself. Because he doesn't know what he did wrong. |
| 26 | Gardening Angel | Skin | Spokane |
| 27 | Kaylee Cole | Holes | Seattle/Spokane |
| 28 | Mary Lambert | I Know Girls | Seattle KEXP is Seattle's own Community Radio! |
| 29 | Karli Fairbanks | Forms of Getting Beat | Spokane Now lives/performs as "Karli Ingersoll" |
| 30 | The Blow | She Buried Herself (in the Air) | Portland |
| 31 | Danielle Estelle | Titanic | Spokane |
| 32 | Mikalyn | Budding Trees (edited) | Olympia/Davenport |
| 33 | Choklate | 6.8 Billion | Seattle |
| 34 | Billy Tipton | Bernie's Tune | Kansas City/Spokane |
| 35 | The Blow | Some Chocolate | Portland |
| 36 | Shann (Ray) Ferch | The Greatest Work of Art is to Love Someone [excerpt] | Spokane |
| 37 | Nakho & Medicine for the People | My Country | Portland |
| 38 | Chenoa | Strength in Unity | Lummi/S'Kallam |
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