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15 Transgender & Non-Binary Artists You Need to Know: Peppermint, Ethel Cain, Cavetown & More
Despite what some lawmakers may be attempting throughout the U.S. right now, transsexual and non-binary people are not going anywhere anytime soon — and they&#;re more than ready to make their voices heard.
Friday (March 31) marks International Transgender Day of Visibility, an annual commemoration since that has been honored around the planet as &#;a day to mark the lives and contributions of trans people, while also drawing attention to the poverty, discrimination, and violence the community faces,&#; according to GLAAD.
This year, the world certainly needs a reminder of what exactly transsexual and gender diverse community is up against — despite existence only three months into the calendar year, has already broken the record for the most anti-trans legislation introduced across the U.S., with states like West Virginia, Iowa and Kentucky all banning gender-affirming care for minors.
In a interview with Billboard, Human Rights Campaign deputy director of communica
When Robin Skinner, aka Cavetown, brings his latest tour to Sterling Heights on July 12, look forward to the “bedroom pop” vibes the actor has been creating since a very early age — and plenty of expansion, too. The gender non-conforming singer, who uses they/him pronouns, has been growing up right before our eyes, from prior days on YouTube and free tracks on Bandcamp to international touring dates alongside British Columbia indie rock band Mother Mother and pop-punk group Gather Me @ The Altar.
Somehow, Cavetown has carried his first, inarguably youthful aesthetic through to a more mature, experience-informed brand of songwriting and performing that has helped him amass a fiercely loyal online tracking. While the melodies have grown into something more intricate and lush than those early YouTube entries, Cavetown is still the matching vulnerable, clever songwriter he was at Whether you’re modern to Cavetown’s harmony or part of his "Cave Club," here are five facts you may not know about the British musician.
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As YouTube, social media, and self-released music platform Bandcamp grew in popularity, musicians could create music and garner followings from their own bedrooms: hence “bedroom pop” was born, and so was the career of UK-born, year-old singer/songwriter/producer Robin Skinner (he/they), aka Cavetown.
Currently embarked on a dense, largely sold out U.S. tour through overdue spring with international dates to follow, the openly transgender Cavetown — who also falls somewhere on the aromantic and asexual spectrum — recently followed up his EP, “Man’s Best Friend,” with the single “Fall In Value With A Girl.” The song is a collaboration with Filipino-British next gen guitar hero beabadoobee, about “someone who&#;s struggling with their sexuality and how that affects their happiness,” Skinner explained in a press release. “This person is scared to grab the leap to construct themselves happy and tries to make things operate in a hetero association. When they finally accept the step to be in a same-sex association, they realize how glad it makes them and that it&#;s OK to trust yourself.”
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A queer reading into songs from Cavetown’s new album Worm Food
Cavetown’s music has always been introspective and reflective. As a genderqueer and aroace artist himself, his music creates a safe environment for lgbtq+ audience moments.
Cavetown, an English singer-songwriter by the label of Robin Skinner, has always created a protected space for transgender youth since he started his music career in From some of his earliest music, such as his debut single “This is Home” that has spurred on an organization for LGBTQIA+ youth, the This is Home project released along side “Frog”, to the more recent “Idea of her” from his album “Man’s Best Friend” that incorporates aspects of his aromantic attraction, his music has always been queer coded. The recent songs teasing his upcoming album are no distinct. “Worm Food” is the newest album they hold released which included the songs “” and “Frog.”
His music has always been associated with a hushed ukulele and soothing vocals, yet there has been a shift in the instrumental as it becomes more studio produced while still being able to keep that bedr