Neko Case
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard 24 Nov
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As neither. I am neither. I still call myself she, her. I'm used to it. It doesn't bother me. And partly because the world hates women so much, I will not abandon it. I just won't. but I also understand that the world hates gender-fluid people and trans people, LGBTQ people, and I understand the importance of not abandoning that either.
Politically, we are... Socially, I don't think what, you know, the president and his people represent represents the American people. I don't believe that Americans in general have a hatred or a problem with people who are not white, who are LGBTQ, who are immigrants. I just don't think they do.
Like, politics and everyday life just—they just aren't separate. Not that I want to talk about them, politics specifically, because I just refuse to be afraid.
Well, I have really benefited from menopause. And, you know, a lot of people who menstruate who don't anymore have said the same things about what, you know, the hormone shift. Like, you don't care anymore what people think of you. And also, I just came from...
seeing one of my best friends die and sitting with her body for four days as you know she was an organ donor and she had a massive aneurysm and you know her partner just heroically did CPR. And then the paramedics came and kept her pulse going and got her to the hospital and they stabilized her despite the fact that she had no brain activity.
And you cannot be an organ donor unless you die on a respirator in the hospital. Like, it's very, very specific. So, and then you have to wait for all the tests. Like, there are, you know, barrages of tests that happened to make sure that, you know, you're healthy and that you're your organs can really save someone else's life and not be rejected.
So we spent days just with her and talking about her life and what a selfless person she was. We joked a lot about how she was going to work even in death. She was all about service. And then the day came. Right on the way to the OR, what they do is they do a thing called an honor walk. And we went down what seemed like miles of corridors behind her hospital bed, behind the doctors.
And the corridors were lined with doctors and nurses and hospital staff honoring her. And it seemed like... One of those movies where you see the people going down the corridor in slow motion to get into the spaceship to go to the moon or whatever, and everyone's saluting them, and it seems so important. And I think I actually saw that in real life.
And I just thought, all those things that I worry about and the injustices, we are so right to fight for them. And I was there watching this incredible thing happen and these beautiful people from all over the world, many of the doctors are immigrants. And, you know, it was a mix of people of all colors from all over the world and all different cultures.
And I felt so utterly galvanized against the fear and so utterly galvanized in that joy is the way forward.
loud-ass, exuberant joy.
I don't, but I do talk about this occasionally.
Oh, yeah. I mean, relationships with people are all very different and some are very complicated and some are not.
Oh, yeah.
I have a lot of compassion for my dad and a lot of sadness because I feel like his development was arrested completely. And, you know, he had to be an adult man and, you know, head of the family and all these things. And he was just a kid inside. Yeah. And he didn't know how to handle it. You know, he maintained it with
drugs and drinking for a long time but then it catches up with you and the kind of pain from that I he didn't use what happened to him to manipulate anyone like his forward path was genuine he wasn't Doing a great job, but he was also, you know, a 19-year-old kid when he had me. And he didn't want me, but he ended up with me.
Yeah, it was nice because when I was a little girl, I would have loved to have had him show me how to do things. Because he was always fixing the car, you know, or the truck or whatever. And it would have been nice to have been included. It would have been—I mean, when I was a kid, I thought he wanted a boy, and I thought he was really disappointed. But he just didn't want any kids.
Probably Hold On, Hold On. It's melancholy, but... It feels very much like I am in charge of myself and I make good decisions in it.
partially. It's a moment of actually seeing yourself clearly. It doesn't mean the moment's going to last. I mean, I think I also partly feel that way because I wrote it with the Sadies and, you know, I have such a loving relationship with them and You know, it's always made me feel good to play it. And, you know, my dear friend Dallas Good passed away a couple years ago, way too young.
And so now it takes on a new sort of heaviness. But it's like a heaviness that feels good to carry somehow.
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