The Worriers are an American pop-punk
musical group from Brooklyn, New York. Due to their punk nature most of their
songs relate to activism and social issues. In 2015 they came out with an album
titled ‘Imaginary Life’. This album was produced by Laura Jane Grace, a popular
punk-world figure from the band Against
Me! In her band Against Me!,
Laura made it her mission to tell the tale of her gender dysphoria in order to
help people understand trans identities and her production work with the Worriers is no different.
One
song on the album, is titled ‘They/Them/Theirs’ and tells the story of someone explaining
their gender identity. The song begins by defining the gender binary that
everyone is familiar with and then in the same verse the singer reveals that
they identify with neither end of the spectrum. Then the song continues by
going a little bit more in depth with the singer’s gender dysphoria and new
sense of identity as gender non-binary.
The
audience that Grace was going for is anyone who is ignorant to the fact that
there are more than two genders. Then based off this audience it becomes
evident that Grace’s purpose is to inform people of the other gender, with this
song specifically tackling the topic of non-binary/agender. Then Grace’s second
purpose is to provide an explanation for people who don’t feel like they belong
in either gender category on the binary scale. As someone who has recently been
struggling with a lot of gender dysphoria, I can safely say that this song put
in perspective for me the idea that someone can identify as neither male nor
female. The song also helped me realize that other people feel the same way
that I do about gender which is pretty reassuring when oftentimes I felt like
it was just me.
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