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Car rehearsals with @leilahegazy for our show this Friday at #HashtagBar on Staten Island with @tinaandthebalance and Phoebe Blue! Doors open at 8:00, see you local peeps there! This is a badass female fronted lineup so don't miss it🤘🏼❤️

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Getting ready to perform and march to the White House to #FreeSyria!! (at Lincoln Memorial)

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Rehearsal shenanigans...pumped to perform at the Philadelphia Museum of Art tomorrow 3/4 with @leilahegazy 😝🎼 #ArtAfter5 #Philly #livemusic

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"You don't actually need to practice, right Mom?" 🎼😻

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Say hello to my (new) little friend. 😈🎸 #gibson #newtoys #electricguitar

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Here are some photos from my performance a week ago at Madonna University in Livonia, MI! Thanks to Kathleen Thompson for taking these and to everyone who was so kind at the university, especially Professor Fatima Ayoub-Salemassi, who helped to organize this concert. You guys were truly a great audience and we hope to come back to the Detroit/Dearborn area soon! 

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It has been a crazy 24 hours, but guitar and I are Detroit bound! Ready to rock Madonna U tonight. 🎸✈️ (at LaGuardia Airport)

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Excited to be performing at Madonna University in Michigan with Natalia Perlaza and participating in a discussion on my music/activism, Islam, Muslim-American identity, and much more. This is a free event and open to the general public - all you need to do is register on Eventbrite! 

Hope to see you soon :)

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This little girl co-writes all my songs ❤️🐱 #nationalcatday #catsofinstagram

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Here's some video footage from my recent performance at Stony Point Center in Rockland County, NY. Thanks to George Cho for this lovely footage and thanks again to the lovely people who stuck around for my performance after the gala. It was so much fun meeting you all/playing for you! 

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#latergram from the rehearsal out of the Twilight Zone. Loose wires everywhere, mold (I think), and death metal blasting from the room next door. #LA peeps better come to @thehotelcafe tonight at 7pm! My allergies may or may not still be reeling from the stuff on the walls at this rehearsal space. lets make this worthwhile. 😝 (at Los Angeles, California)

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What a wonder!() WILL be glad to see U&listen alive...once in Ukraine!}

Thanks so much for listening to my music! DM me your email so I can keep you updated on new music, videos, and tour dates. :)                 

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Excited to be doing a joint set with my sister Leila at The Hotel Cafe in Los Angeles in a couple of weeks! La-La Land, RSVP on Facebook and invite your friends. https://www.facebook.com/events/701188513348520/

Not in LA but have friends/family who are? Send them our way! We love meeting new potential fans. :)

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Had a lot of fun rocking out with my amazing band @carllimbacher @maxtmaples Coyote Anderson and my sis @leilahegazy at Rockwood Music Hall! Next show is at The Hotel Cafe in LA on Sept 25th - more details to come soon :) thanks to all who came #latergram #concert (at Rockwood Music Hall)

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Playing with a full band at Rockwood Music Hall in NYC next week! Doors at 7:30, showtime at 8 pm - see you soon! <3

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I don't want to have to compromise my morals in order to make a living

i dont want my words to be taken out of context 

i dont want to be infantilized because i refuse to be sexualized  

i dont want to be molested at shows or on the street by people who perceive me as an object that exists for their personal satisfaction 

i dont want to live in a world where im gonna have to start employing body guards because this kind of behavior is so commonplace and accepted and I’m pissed that when I express concern over my own safety it’s often ignored until people see firsthand what happens and then they apologize for not taking me seriously after the fact… 

I’m tired of men who aren’t professional or even accomplished musicians continually offering to ‘help me out’ (without being asked), as if i did this by accident and i’m gonna flounder without them.  or as if the fact that I’m a woman makes me incapable of using technology.  I have never seen this kind of thing happen to any of my male peers 

I’m tired of the weird insistence that i need a band or i need to work with outside producers (and I’m eternally grateful to the people who don’t do this)

im tired of being considered vapid for liking pop music or caring about fashion as if these things inherently lack substance or as if the things i enjoy somehow make me a lesser person 

im tired of being congratulated for being thin because i can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway 

im tired of people i love betraying me so they can get credit or money

I’m sad that it’s uncool or offensive to talk about environmental or human rights issues

I’m tired of creeps on message boards discussing whether or not they’d “fuck” me

I’m tired of people harassing my dancers and treating them like they aren’t human beings

I’m sad that my desire to be treated as an equal and as a human being is interpreted as hatred of men, rather than a request to be included and respected (I have four brothers and many male best friends and a dad and i promise i do not hate men at all, nor do i believe that all men are sexist or that all men behave in the ways described above) 

im tired of being referred to as ‘cute,’ as a ‘waif’ etc., even when the author, fan, friend, family member etc. is being positive 

(fyi)

waif |wāf|

noun

1 a homeless and helpless person, esp. a neglected or abandoned child: she is foster-mother to various waifs and strays .

• an abandoned pet animal.

cute |kyo͞ot|

adjective

1 attractive in a pretty or endearing way: a cute kitten.

• informal sexually attractive.

I’m tired of people assuming that just because something happens regularly it’s ok

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i have so much love for everyone who has been cool and amazing.  I have the best job in the world but I’m done with being passive about any kind of status quo that allows anyone to suffer or to be disrespected

Grimes world tour is officially over, the visions album cycle is officially over, and I’m now taking the time to overhaul everything and make it better 

much love to every fan - stuff can be lame sometimes but its really cool to have this support <3 

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I'm so late with this but it's amazing and I so relate.

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5 Kinds of Racists

I've come to the conclusion that there are several different kinds of racists. Feel free to add your own observations to this list.

1) The racist who makes offensive jokes around friends/family, assuming that words are harmless. Let's call this the benevolent racist (similar to the benevolent sexist - they think they have good intentions, so that couldn't possibly make them racist/sexist). After all, they're just kidding right? Stop being so PC.

2) The racist who is actually dumb enough to say racist things in public around people who might not be sympathetic to their hatred.

3) The racist who is compelled to verbally harass people from the group they hate so much.

4) The racist whose is actually compelled to do physical harm (eg Charleston, Chapell Hill, etc)

5) The racist who agrees any of the above racists but will never own up to it in public.

Moral of the story here - there are varying degrees of racism, sexism, any ism. These phenomena do not exist only in extremes (saying the N word or another racial pejorative, killing someone) - they exist on a spectrum. We have all met at least 1 or more of these people. The sad part is, a #1 can one day become a #2 or a #3, and so on. When will we stop this sickness from progressing?

Remember that silence = consent. Peace and love everyone.