Calm & Furious

In this episode of Calm & Furious, let's delve into the world of AURORA's Queendom and dissect its lyrical context, creative expressions, differences and similarities with mainstream feminist pop music, and how this new feminist anthem creates a home for the women, the outcasts, the lonely and misunderstood, and ultimately, all of humanity.

References:
https://genius.com/Aurora-queendom-lyrics
https://www.nme.com/news/music/aurora-queendom-lyrics-video-meaning-sexuality-outcasts-2393976

AURORA's Queendom puts words to the all-encompassing feminist spirit of our time. The song captures the inclusivity of modern feminism, celebrating the women, the outcasts, mother nature, and all of humanity, signifying a new chapter in the fight against systemic oppression. At Calm & Furious, I will explain how Queendom poetically embodies a new vision of feminism we all need. But before we go into the song dissection, it's necessary to understand how feminism got here to see the significance of this new feminist anthem. In this episode, let's focus on the four waves of feminism and how the movement evolved to be increasingly inclusive and controversial.

Our cover art features the album cover of AURORA's A Different Kind of Human (Step II). The audio clips are from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's TED Talk We Should All Be Feminists, Margaret Sanger's interview with Mike Wallace, Gloria Steinem's 1970s Women's Liberation Rally speech, Kimberlé Crenshaw's TED Talk The Urgency of Intersectionality, footages of the 2017 Women's March in Washington. D.C., and AURORA's Queendom.

References and further readings:
The waves of feminism, and why people keep fighting over them, explained
www.vox.com/2018/3/20/16955588/feminism-waves-explained-first-second-third-fourth
5 Black Suffragists Who Fought for the 19th Amendment — And Much More
www.history.com/news/black-suffragists-19th-amendment
Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1848)
Ain't I a Woman? Sojourner Truth (1851)
sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/sojtruth-woman.asp
A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf (1929)
The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir (1949)
The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan (1963)
Sexual Politics, Kate Millett (1970)
"Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema", Laura Mulvey (1973)
Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape, Susan Brownmiller (1975)
Ain't I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism, bell hooks (1981)
The Beauty Myth, Naomi Wolf (1990)
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, Judith Butler (1990)
"Riot GRRRL Manifesto", Kathleen Hanna (1991)
www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/riotgrrrlmanifesto
Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit (2014)
Bad Feminist, Roxane Gay (2014)

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