on BENEATH THE UNDERGROUND
SHEENA’S JUNGLE ROOM on WFMU.ORG
Every Fourth Wednesday of every Month, Laurie brings us historic and legendary FEMALE Singers, Songwriters to celebrate the Women Rockers who have paved our music roads with genius on “XX-CENTRIC BEHAVIOR”. Laurie produces and co-hosts BENEATH the UNDERGROUND with music historian John Pietaro every Wednesday, 10pm-12am, EST. (Click the Red Titles to Learn More!)
‘XX-CENTRIC BEHAVIOR’ the BOOK
Laurie Towers explains: Considering the many angles and layers, the trappings of women’s oppression, would be such a task as to cut deeply into one’s 8-12 hour work day…The magnitude would create its own category such as “c) All of the Above”, or relinquishing its potency to “d) other”. Our Mantra “Reinvention is the New Revolution” has never been needed more than now as these leading women give support and hope through shared stories of adversity and conquest. Sadly, conquest sometimes doesn’t come in the desired form, yet we’re often forced to accept it. Until we make the change we want to see…Onward and Upward. There are miles to go before we sleep.
Besides ‘XX-CENTRIC BEHAVIOR’ radio program, “SHE’S RAISING THE BAR” has also been doing the roadwork to celebrate authors, filmmakers and celebrities who’ve been overlooked due to gender, age or both. The “XX-CENTRIC BEHAVIOR” book project creates the same dynamic in text. Stories of the women who have “defied stereotypical gravity”, often by simply thinking as a human or not as a gender. Crazy and radical thoughts, yes? Women who were once possibly immune to the “casting couch” of Hollywood but could not outrun the shelf life of their sexual potency and finding themselves out of work when they passed a certain milestone in years or women who’ve been discriminated against in a sport dominated by men. These women have traveled the service roads and byways until they could effectively emerge into the flow of traffic.
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