Anohni

Musician

United Kingdom

1971 - Present

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At the end of the day, the sovereignty of maleness is an illusion. In essence and in origin, we are all entirely female.
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More and more - especially the younger generation - are functioning outside the binary concept of gender. That's just next-generation stuff.
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This illusion that a lower class has less intelligence than a higher class is a complete fake-out.
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Whereas in the past people have seen the two sexes as almost incomprehensibly different, now there is a group of people that are explaining the connections between both the genders, literally in the way their biology informs some of their expression.
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I spent ten years being told there was no way I was going to have a career because I was so effeminate.
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When we are not extracting wealth from nature, we are extracting it from the working and middle classes.
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For millennia, men have enslaved women and attempted to appropriate female creative power, re-casting themselves as gods and creators. This assault continues today in the forms of ruthless wealth and mineral extraction, genetic engineering, mass surveillance, and war mongering.
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We're not just polluting a river and killing a couple of top predator animals; we're eradicating the krill, the necessary algae. We're dismantling the insect and amphibian worlds. We're going for the building blocks.
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As a transgendered artist, I have always occupied a place outside of the mainstream. I have gladly paid a price for speaking my truth in the face of loathing and idiocy.
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For me, a theatre is a dark place. It should be mysterious; it's where we go to get away from all the utilitarian things we do in the daylight.
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