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✿ A ✿ 21 ✿ tired folkie artist ✿
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Fully aware this is a grossly inaccurate oversimplification of complex psychological and sociological trends, I am nevertheless opting to embrace misinformation by believing, regardless of all evidence to the contrary, that Elon Musk dickriding can be blamed on MCU Iron Man

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Marina Diamandis photographed by Jacob DeKat for Galore magazine, February 2022.

Styled by Alejandra Hernandez. Makeup by Jaime Diaz. Hair by Tony Medina.

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Happy birthday, Pete Seeger! (May 3, 1919)

A triumphant troubadour for labor, civil rights, and the environment, Pete Seeger was born into a musical family and learned how to make songs and play at a young age. Dropping out of Harvard to pursue his dreams of a career in journalism, he instead became active in the radical labor movement and its singing tradition, learning the guitar from Lead Belly and joining forces with songsmith Woody Guthrie. The two would form the Almanac Singers with several other radical folksingers, creating songs for the labor movement and the Communist Party. Seeger found mainstream success in the 1940s and 50s with another group, the Weavers, but the House UnAmerican Activities Committee killed the Weavers’ fortunes, as Seeger was cited for contempt for refusing to testify or plead the Fifth. Seeger’s career languished for years, barred from radio or television, but he found success in the college campus circuit, cultivating a generation of radical youth who would play a major role in the explosive activist scene of the 1960s. Seeger was right there alongside them, singing for the civil rights movement and contributing songs of his own, including an old spiritual he reworked into “We Shall Overcome.” In the late 60s and early 70s, amidst a jaded counterculture embittered by the failure of their radical politics, Seeger threw himself into environmentalist causes, organizing to clean up the Hudson River. He remained active in music and activism until his death in 2014. He is remembered both for his activism and for his contributions to music, popularizing the use of tablature in string instrument notation and coining the terms “pulling off” and “hammering on.”

“In the largest sense, every work of art is protest… A lullaby is a propaganda song and any three-year-old knows it…  A hymn is a controversial song — sing one in the wrong church: you’ll find out.”