is culture the ability
to sing the same songs together
in joyful abandon
with your neighbors?
culture
be honest:
family music
my birthday wish
Music-making belongs to everyone. Here’s what I built to make this real—and why I need your help this spring.
Some of you have made music with me over the years. You know what being in the room with me is like. Since my birthday is coming up, I’m hoping you’ll take a moment to hear what I’m asking for. This past year, I decided to start something new. I wanted to nurture spaces that…
a living wage: a guide for artists and gig workers in the bay area
What Are You Charging?
Three conversations happen regularly in our community. A colleague texts: “what are you charging for lessons?” Another sends an email: “a school offered me this schedule and this salary—is that reasonable?” A third says, in person, something harder to articulate: “I feel like I need to charge more for a private gig, but I don’t…
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IALAC
As someone who has worked with children and their parents for 25 years, I would say that I have had more than my fair share of positive human interaction. I know there are many people who love me, and I know that I am a good person and that I am lovable. (In Christian summer…
the rabbit hole
as an autistic person, who is highly competent in certain environments, and near disabled in others, I’ve found that I can do things that are normally quite difficult for me if they are related to my field of interest–parsing seemingly arbitrary lists of conditions to fill out necessary forms, for example. I’m doing this a…
why we do what we do: my mother’s crone ceremony
It’s been very emotional for me to reemerge from the darkness of lockdown to return to building community through music-making. In my conversations with folks, it becomes clear that a younger generation of families don’t know about some of the ways we connected before, and don’t necessarily remember many of the ways things were different…
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a word to the wise:
if one aspires to advocate, one is wise to watch the baby.
the baby is the perfect advocate,
advocating directly for their own needs.
(may all our babies’ needs be met,
neurodiverse community
Affirming neurodiversity is recognizing that, in a musical space, one person is tuned into the soprano register, even though their voice presents in the bass register; another person hears long melodic phrases when everyone else is creating short rhythmic phrases; and someone else’s brain is turning the patterns of sound into physical shapes, and they…
Wow
I was in Taqueria La Familia today,
having an excellent pescado burrito,
and listening to the cumbia that was
coming over the radio, when…