Be a Lilith, not an Eve
I watched the “Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery” documentary on Hulu just now.
The one that Sarah McLachlan skipped the party for, to stand in solidarity with Jimmy Kimmel. And she was the first musical guest when he was back on the air.
I bought tickets for Mom and me to go every time the Lilith Fair hit Pittsburgh.
Even today, I am wearing the “oral sex” ring I bought her there. I bought one for me too but it’s too big and it’s lost to the ages in a house of cats.
I feel particularly blessed to have that connection to Momma still. And that I got to attend the Lilith Fair and the Eras Tour 4x each.
As a woman, I’ve never felt safer or more celebrated anywhere else.
I saw that Sarah is touring again. She has toured a bunch of times but never comes to Florida.
I also saw that she’s going to a venue I love up north. I watched Ticketmaster for several days, seeing the tickets dwindle away.
When they were down to one last seat at my preferred venue, I held my breath and dropped $250 to sell out the show.
I probably didn’t spend that in four years of buying two tickets in the late ’90s.
This was probably FOMO after having bought a ticket to see Melissa Etheridge and the Indigo Girls at the Ryman on 10/5 but accidentally sold that ticket.
The venue where I have my Sarah ticket to, I believe it was among those who received a bomb threat when my favorite (trans) artist played there.
Fortunately there have been no incidents on that tour. But I feel bad for the artist. It seems like her health has been iffy throughout. No goddamn wonder.
But that artist just added a bunch of tour dates … including MIAMI.
I can at least say I saw her when tickets were $50. Because I am pretty sure I paid more than I did for Sarah McLachlan for my new seat.
Anyway, about those bomb threats …
There’s a segment in the Lilith Fair documentary where all the antiabortion protesters/Jerry Falwell started demonizing the festival.
People protested en masse and called in bomb threats. Over Planned Parenthood having a tent in the festival area.
I make a monthly recurring donation to Planned Parenthood now. And I’m damn proud of it.
Isn’t it funny how it’s the “right” that promotes violence?
Life begins in the womb. So let’s bomb you for handing out condoms to prevent that womb from ever being filled with the blessed fruit (loops)?
Also, a trans artist has made her way from backwoods Florida to headlining a world tour. That bothers you? WHO HURT YOU?!
Go pick some berries since all those jobs the immigrants were supposedly taken are wide open now that they’ve been deported to third countries.
All any of us have ever wanted was for everyone to have personal and economic freedom.
Watching the Lilith Fair documentary was a reminder we’ve been nothing but gaslit for generations about that.
It was interesting that they included a clip of Kid Rock calling Monica Lewinsky a hoe. And the Woodstock crowd telling Sheryl Crow to show them her tits.
Just goes to show that the alt-reich was looking for voices for their generation, too.
I always believed we were quieter, but mightier.
I hope that prevails.
And for an hour-ish on Hulu, I got that hope back again.