Recommendation: Andrea Gibson
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Andrea Gibson
Spoken-word poet
Spoken-word poet
Andrea’s words are beautiful. I would quote one of her poems, but it’s hard to pick just one fragment! In the past I’ve transcribed these two poems on my blog. I don’t mean to self-promote my site, but I know that transcriptions are important to people who can’t hear or who can’t understand spoken English (I had a hard time understanding these poems at first — Andrea speaks really fast!). So here are the links to the transcriptions for the videos above: Swingset and Andrew.
Posted by Zory on July 28th, 2009 at 08:00 am
Category: people, recommendations, videos 10 comments »
July 28th, 2009 at 3:39 pm |
These were so fantastic, I had to listen twice. Absolutely beautiful. I'm inspired!
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July 28th, 2009 at 3:45 pm |
I wish Andrea Gibson would marry me.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE TRANSCRIPTIONS. <33 I first heard of hir on (I believe) Sociological Images, which may have been a link from genderkid's site, because they had the transcript, too.
For folks who are interested in gay stuff and not just gender stuff, "I Do" is Andrea's response to Prop 8 — it's on youtube, too.
A friend of mine bought one of hir cds from hir site and said it's amazing, so if people have dollars to spare, do it!!
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July 28th, 2009 at 8:51 am |
Oh. My. Gryffindoor.
Thanks for the transcripts, genderkid! Streaming video doesn’t work on my cellphone so your transcripts saved my life, haha.
Cheers! ^_^
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July 28th, 2009 at 4:40 pm |
As a Deaf person I totally appreciated the fact that genderkid transcribed the poems. You rock!!!
Amazing. I am in love with Andrea now, what an amazing person!
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July 28th, 2009 at 8:10 pm |
Thank you for the recommendation.
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July 28th, 2009 at 11:56 pm |
as a genderqueer kid who's studying to be a primary school teacher (the australian equivalent of elementary and middle school, for the north americans here), hearing andrea speak about how kids react to hir gender is awesome and gives me hope.
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July 29th, 2009 at 3:23 am |
Oh man, I met Andera Gibson when ze came to my university for a poetry slam last year, and we did a workshop on gender and it was like the highlight of my life. "Andrew" was a poem that definitely has helped me in undefining gender :D Ze is possibly one of the nicest people alive, no really.
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November 20th, 2009 at 11:33 am |
Bravo!
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November 20th, 2009 at 2:58 pm |
So awesome. I needed to hear this today.
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August 3rd, 2012 at 9:47 am |
This is the first time I’ve heard “Andrew.” I keep a running list of favorite quotes on my wall and “I am whatever I am when I am it” just made the walll. This means so much to me, thanks genderkid! :)
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