Miranda July
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106 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Jan 2025
Miranda July’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Potentially, it's the same hormones that the narrator is taking, estrogen, you know, that a non-binary trans feminine child might one day take. But beyond that, you know, as a mother... It's not my story to tell, especially because as with any child, it's a changing story. And you don't like you.
None of us want to put something out there that's going to haunt the child, you know, which is not to say like. They're ever not going to be trans. I don't mean that. But it's like it's a private journey. My own, you know, deep inner gender and sexuality journey is a private journey. So it's tricky. There's so much...
information and conversation that, uh, is missing and that I would love to give any, any, um, parents or grandparents who are listening, um, But it's just too public for just me as a mother, not an educator, not a writer. Yeah, I'm just too protective of the sanctity of their childhood.
So, yeah, the four days, every other four days, I'm alone, you know, or wherever, whoever I choose to sleep with. Like in my 20s. Like it's really... Like, you really have to stop and think when you have that time alone where you're not responsible. Like, what actually am I doing here in this life? Like, what do I feel? And you keep...
And just because you've unburdened yourself practically, you know, with from this construction or these these real responsibilities doesn't mean they just automatically lift off your shoulders. Like most of my issues come from within. Right. So suddenly you're like, oh, it wasn't all the construction of marriage or that. the patriarchy or those, it was those things, but they're inside me.
And I'm still running for dear life or replacing those constructions with new ones, you know, anything that'll fill up my time, take my time, please, you know, Instagram, whatever, like, and so to actually be willing to take on that freedom, it's a real practice. And I don't mean to make it sound hard or scary. It's only hard in the way that a new habit is hard.
I mean, I think I wasn't ever like, I'm not like a music head. So the thing that drew me to punk, especially as a teenager, was first of all, it was an all ages scene. Like the clubs, like I could go to them. They weren't, they didn't have alcohol. And not only that, but the whole premise was you don't have to be taught. Like you can figure it out yourself.
And that was great for me, who did not want to be taught by anyone anyways, and wanted access to a space, a world, a literal... I mean, I put my first plays on in a punk club in 924 Gilman, a sort of seminal all-ages punk club in Berkeley. And that was... So great. Honestly, I would wish that on any teenager to have the freedom to do something outside of school.
That's while punk seems sort of lawless, it actually was a structure. You know, it did formalize what I was doing.
Well, I moved to Portland to be with my girlfriend at the time, and Riot Grrrl kind of had just happened. I'd say I sort of missed it slightly. But certainly the feminist underpinning was all there.
Initially, let's see, my girlfriend and I broke up. She moved out. We had to cover her rent. And I remember my friend at the time, like, how are we going to get this money really quickly, you know, that we were missing? And she said... well, one of us is going to have to strip and it can't be me because I have glasses. And I was like, okay.
And so initially it was this club that I think is still there called Mary's. And In Portland. But then I've had these kind of lifelong problems with my eyes, and there was smoking in the bars back then. So I couldn't really handle the smoke. So that's why I moved to the peep shows, which is just like a box. You're not really sharing air with anyone.
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, my main goal was to make as, you know, much money. It still wasn't that much, but to make this amount of money in a short time so I could work on my, you know, what ended up being like my first book of short stories, my first feature film. You know, I needed the time was how I was thinking about it. Yeah, I mean, I wouldn't. recommend that job to my child or anyone else's child.
But on the other hand, like most jobs at that age are not so great.
No. No. I don't think – I thought of it as my job, my not great job that was – I think when I quit that job, I started working unlocking car doors for a company called Pop-A-Lock. Right. You know, when you lock your key in your car and that doesn't happen so much anymore.
And that job really, I really hated because I had a beeper and like I could be beeped in the middle of the night to like have to go. Unlock someone's car, which I was, you know, I'd been trained, but I always managed to get it open. But sometimes it took like a while.
I mean, at the time, like for some context, like I was a lesbian. I had like very, I think like bleached out short hair and I would wear a wig that was like my normal pretty girl wig that was like longer brown hair. And so the whole thing was, was sort of like, I am so far from this, you have no idea. Like, I'm... Yeah, so it just kind of felt like... Like, I'm not even me.
That kind of thing? Yeah, just like... Yeah, and I could see exactly how... Like, I remember at the... At Mary's, knowing that there was, like...
that there was a kind of guy like if I put on what's the song like in your eyes the light the heat like what is that Genesis or something I don't know in your eyes I think it's called that that would really just be like oh my god like this song which is so great and this girl you know like that that would sort of generate this like man feeling. And that there was another song, Brown Eyed Girl.
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