The Culturework team is thrilled to present a playlist to accompany this issue’s theme: Matriarchy. We liked the idea of how expansive the theme could be, and hoped that the invitation would extend to everyone. We wanted to pose questions of how matriarchy is connected to femininity, togetherness and separateness, honor and expectation, protectiveness, pain, sacrifice, and healing, joy, motherhood, manhood, queerness, comfort, nourishment, home, understanding, strength, and more!
Click the links below for some cool visuals including music videos and some live versions of the songs!
My Brightest Diamond – She Does Not Brave the War
Thao and the Get Down Stay Down – Nobody Dies
Bjork – Oceania
Hayley Kiyoko – Girls Like Girls
Rituals – Xango/Suave (Poem written and performed by Fernie Borges)
Why Did You Separate Me From the Earth? – Anohni
Image credit: Hilary Fung, 2018