music

Being a female is hard nowadays. We see and hear stories more about how women look than about how successful they have become.

As a member of Philadelphia Student Union’s women’s group, Soul Sisters, I want to spread awareness about how women are negatively depicted in the music industry. Too often women are depicted as being sex objects and we’re not taken seriously. We need to stop the media from depicting women this way. We need to encourage teenage girls and women alike to think critically about how women are shown, and to take action to change it.

In honor of International Workers Day, Crossroads presents veteran labor singer Anne Feeney and rising young songwriter Evan Greer of the Riot-Folk! Collective – joined by special guest Roy Zimmerman – celebrating multiple generations of community resistance through high-energy radical folk music on their fourth tour together. The concert will take place at 7:30 pm at Crossroads Music, 801 South 48th Street. Tickets are $20-30 and are available both at the concert and in advance from our website and at Last Word Bookshop at 220 South 40th Street. 

Note from the Author: I encourage everyone to listen to this album that the PSU produced and then to donate $5 to get this album out to 2 students in Philly (or donate more to help the PSU continue its amazing work)! To listen and donate click here.