Filed under: design of a decade, lists, music | Tags: 2002, pedro the lion, sleater-kinney
[My top 10 favorite song pairs of 2002 continues with songs from the year's best ominous protest albums.]
6. Pedro The Lion, Indian Summer, and Sleater-Kinney, Oh!
Listening to Pedro The Lion’s Control album is like listening to the Sunday services of a one-man doomsday cult. Everything I do is wrong, everything the government does is wrong, we are all going to die, there is no hope. Human emotion is dead, the family is dead, the Earth is dead, even the priests don’t know what to do. Each song is a story written with the subtlety of a forest fire. It’s a loud and ugly album–very punk, for all its nerdy Mormon tendencies. It was also pretty shocking for me, since I was only familiar with their excellent (and very subdued) 1998 debut, It’s Hard To Find A Friend.
Because I am an idiot and a tardy idiot at that, I’m only just now posting this call for digital artifacts from Audacia Ray. She’s travelling to India and looking for pictures, screenshots, videos or stories that define your experience as a sex worker. And she wants them, um, today. She can be contacted at dacia at wakingvixen dot com.
As part of my work with the International Women’s Health Coalition, I’m going to India at the end of next week to do trainings and documentation of organizations that work on health and rights issues with women and youth in India. I’m starting of the trip by doing new media tools and tactics workshops in Delhi with CREA and the YP Foundation.
Then I’ll head south to Sangli, in Maharashtra, to spend five days with SANGRAM. Since 1992, SANGRAM has worked with sex workers in South Maharashtra and North Karnataka, and since then the organization has expanded to work in women’s health and rights more generally. Sangli has the highest incidence of HIV/AIDS in Maharashtra after Mumbai. In Sangli, I’ll be spending time with Meena Seshu (read a post of hers about sex workers fighting criminlization here: http://blog.iwhc.org/2009/03/indian-sex-workers-fight-penalization/) and documenting the experiences of sex workers there in video, audio, pictures, and text. (more…)
