Alternative folk singer and songwriter is touring to promote her latest album “Revolutionary Love.”
For 30 years, Ani DiFranco’s political and social activism have been embedded in her music.
Considering that there’s a number of recently made threats to democracy, including the Supreme Court overturning Roe vs. Wade and criminalizing abortion in many States, there seems to be more unrest than ever on the U.S. political scene.“No, I don’t imagine I did — any more than many. Yeah, I thought we’d gotten about as bad as we could get under George W. , you know? Now, for me, my best moments are levity and humour where I can look at Trump as the great uniter. Now even George W.
“I think a lot of how we got here was disengagement on the majority of American voters,” she theorized from her home in New Orleans, where she’s resided for almost two decades. “You do see a groundswell that is bona fide hopeful of young, progressive, diverse people not only voting and helping to get the vote out amongst others in their community, but running for office. There are a lot of new people stepping up to the plate.”“I was one of the millions who was blindsided in 2016 I couldn’t fathom that that was going to happen and so I don’t pretend to know what’s going to happen with this election.
“But for me, it was almost the opposite: having kids was a way of achieving a little bit of balance between being a political warrior and breathing. The kids brought to me a little bit of patience to put this down for a few minutes … and just play a game and watch the grass grow with them,” she explained.“I think that it’s been the whole goal of my career, if not my life, of achieving ‘Revolutionary Love,’” she explained.
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