SOUNDTRACK: TEGAN AND SARA-“Proud” (1999).
Each chapter in this book is headed by a quote from a different song. I chose this Tegan and Sara song because it sounds so remarkably different from their current stuff (things do change in 20 years, how about that).
This song sounds a lot like it was made by Ani Difranco (early in her career). It opens with a shuffling acoustic guitar. A chunky melody with scratching between chords. Then an interesting and off-kilter drum beat kicks in.
The singer (I never know which one is singing) has a kind of snarling power to her voice
Freedom’s rough
So we take our stand and fight for tomorrow
Finally we got something something we can
Bring down the house with
The second verse gets much bigger with a fat bass
The middle section has a super catchy repeating of “no no no” in a kind of scatting style and then soaring vocals.
The song quietens down again for the verses until the bass comes back for the raucous ending.
The quote that the book uses is
Freedom and blood
I make my mark and fight for tomorrow
Sounds like Elizabeth Warren to me.
[READ: November 4, 2020] Elizabeth Warren
This is one of four books in the Queens of Resistance series. The series celebrates a different woman fighting oppression and making waves in the United States government. [The other books are about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Nancy Pelosi and Maxine Waters].
The books are written by Brenda Jones who was communications director for Rep. John Lewis, and Krishan Trotman, an editor at Hachette who specializes in multicultural voices and social justice.
This series is aimed at younger readers, young women mostly, and is meant to be an inspirational account of women who are fighting for justice throughout their lives and especially during the present administration.
This book acts as a biography as well as an up to the minute account (as of May 2020) of what this powerful women is doing.
I wanted Elizabeth Warren to be President. She was my first choice (with Kamala Harris being a very close second). So this book was like candy to me. I knew a lot about Warren, but I really didn’t know much about her backstory. This book fills all that in. (more…)
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