Anohni Blasts Election: "Americans, You Are Being Used"

Anohni‘s HOPELESSNESS is highly political—an album that addresses ecocide, references drone warfare, and offers a scathing critique of President Barack Obama. In a new note posted to her Facebook titled “Americans, You Are Being Used,” Anohni has written about the rhetoric being used in the current U.S. presidential election. “Did you all get the memo? This election cycle in the USA is not about ecocide, the dying oceans and the extermination of biodiversity, grotesque income disparity, corporate sovereignty and US warcrimes that have played a big part in the destabilization and radicalization of the Middle East,” she writes. “No, it is about transgendered bathroom access!” She’s referencing North Carolina’s discriminatory HB2 bill. (In a recent interview, she praised both Laura Jane Grace and Bruce Springsteen for their respective responses to the law.) In the note, she takes Democrats and Republicans to task for the “fake liberalism that trans sympathy might bring them” and for using scare tactics to “convince poor ignorant bigots to vote for banks and corporations,” respectively. Read the full note below.

Read “Anohni Finds Hope in Hopelessness,” “Lavender Country Won’t Stand for North Carolina’s Transgender Bullying,” and “Op-Ed: North Carolina’s Transgender Fight Needs Musicians to Show Up.”

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