Gigs, Guitars and Gender

Gigs, Guitars and Gender is a podcast that aims to explore the role gender plays in five music scenes across the United States Midwest. In the first five episodes, host Abby Jeffers traveled to Detroit, Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Columbus to talk to musicians in each city about their experiences with gender.

This final episode summarizes the entire podcast project thus far. There’s a bit of clarification at the start to explain some vocabulary and concepts that appeared during the series, and then Jeffers compiles three main themes that popped up throughout each episode: tokenism, DIY and performance.

There is still much work to be done on the issues of exclusion, tokenism, hypersexualization and discrimination of non-cis men in music. How do we work toward diversity and equality in the music scene? How do we build safe spaces for everyone? This is only the beginning to a much larger discussion – feel free to join the conversation in the comments, by leaving feedback or by tagging Indientry or #GigsGuitarsandGender on social media.

Thank you to everyone who participated in this podcast as well as every single person who has listened. Thank you also to Ohio University and the Cutler Scholars Program for helping provide the funds to make this project possible.

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Gigs, Guitars and Gender is a podcast that aims to explore the role gender plays in five music scenes across the United States Midwest. Host Abby Jeffers travels to Detroit, Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Columbus to talk to musicians in each city about their experiences with gender.

This episode is set in the music scene in Columbus, Ohio, and this time, Abby met with Felix and Dylan from Queer Kevin to chat about DIY and tokenism, Markise of Kali Dreamer to talk about performance and the hip-hop scene and Tatum of TTUM to hear about house shows, performance and how allies can help trans and queer musicians be recognized.

Queer Kevin

Song used: burn all cis men

Twitter

Kali Dreamer

Song used: Kali’s Dream Land

Instagram

TTUM

Song used: SO LONG (Demo)

Facebook

Thank you to Ohio University and the Cutler Scholars Program for helping provide the funds to make this project possible.

Support Gigs, Guitars and Gender by donating to the tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/gigs-guitars-and-gender

Find out more on the Gigs, Guitars and Gender website.

Gigs, Guitars and Gender is a podcast that aims to explore the role gender plays in five music scenes across the United States Midwest. Host Abby Jeffers travels to Detroit, Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Columbus to talk to musicians in each city about their experiences with gender.

This episode is set in the music scene in Indianapolis, Indiana, and this time, Abby met with Sofia from Harmony Woods to chat about safety and DIY spaces, Ivy and Juliette from corey flood to talk about gender-diverse lineups and tokenization and Pru of noera to hear how the queer music scene splits from the rest of Philadelphia.

Harmony Woods

Song used: Jenkintown-Wyncote

Twitter

corey flood

Song used: Feel Okay

Twitter

noera

Song used: Home Alone

Facebook

Thank you to Ohio University and the Cutler Scholars Program for helping provide the funds to make this project possible.

Support Gigs, Guitars and Gender by donating to the tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/gigs-guitars-and-gender

Find out more on the Gigs, Guitars and Gender website.

Gigs, Guitars and Gender is a podcast that aims to explore the role gender plays in five music scenes across the United States Midwest. Host Abby Jeffers travels to Detroit, Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Columbus to talk to musicians in each city about their experiences with gender.

This episode is set in the music scene in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Abby met with Cecilia from Het Ward to chat about the DIY music scene, Thomas of Jorts Season to talk tokenization and the lens of gender in interpreting music by queer artists and Tatiana of The Childlike Empress to hear more about tokenization and the racist and gendered interactions that they have experienced in Pittsburgh.

Het Ward

Song used: THE LIBERAL AGENDA

Instagram

Jorts Season

Song used: My Idol

Twitter

The Childlike Empress

Song used: Take Care Of Yourself (Demo)

Facebook

Thank you to Ohio University and the Cutler Scholars Program for helping provide the funds to make this project possible.

Support Gigs, Guitars and Gender by donating to the tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/gigs-guitars-and-gender

Find out more on the Gigs, Guitars and Gender website.

Gigs, Guitars and Gender is a podcast that aims to explore the role gender plays in five music scenes across the United States Midwest. Host Abby Jeffers travels to Detroit, Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Columbus to talk to musicians in each city about their experiences with gender.

This episode is set in the music scene in Indianapolis, Indiana, and this time, Abby met with Gwynn from There Are Ghosts to chat about aspects of performance, Addison from For the Fire to talk about the confidence and stereotypes of women in rock and Katrina and Jennasen of manners, please to hear about tokenization and female-focused events.

There Are Ghosts

Song used: Trains Collide

Twitter

For The Fire

Song used: Overthinking

Twitter

manners, please

Song used: Hysteria

Twitter

Thank you to Ohio University and the Cutler Scholars Program for helping provide the funds to make this project possible.

Support Gigs, Guitars and Gender by donating to the tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/gigs-guitars-and-gender

Find out more on the Gigs, Guitars and Gender website.

Gigs, Guitars and Gender is a podcast that aims to explore the role gender plays in five music scenes across the United States Midwest. Host Abby Jeffers travels to Detroit, Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Columbus to talk to musicians in each city about their experiences with gender.

This episode centers on the music scene in Detroit, Michigan, and Abby met with indie rocker Stef Chura to talk tokenization, feminist punk duo GIRL FIGHT to talk representation in rock and rapper Tiny Jag to talk materialism in the Detroit rap scene.

Stef Chura

Song used: Degrees

Twitter

GIRL FIGHT

Song used: My Own God

Instagram

Tiny Jag

Song used: Riding

Twitter

Thank you to Ohio University and the Cutler Scholars Program for helping provide the funds to make this project possible.

Support Gigs, Guitars and Gender by donating to the tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/gigs-guitars-and-gender

Find out more on the Gigs, Guitars and Gender website.