Pattie Gonia

And I think America is in the in between right now.

And that's what I think makes this moment even more politically charged for trans people is that

You all as trans people can look at America and be like, babe, you're in transition.

You are literally like so afraid of coming out of the closet, America, of being maybe something else, something better, something more truthful.

You're holding on to that identity with the death grip and look at it killing yourself.

high trends high trends okay that is so beautifully said and i know you think of yourself as an author but i'm gonna challenge by choice you right here are you ready okay you are also a lyricist and i need you is to write a song about how sunset sunrise it's all perspective nature is trans okay maybe you and i are gonna write it maybe you're a musician yourself you know we are making some music i love music nothing makes me feel like music

I think we're finally starting to realize the power that music has to literally put us on the same wavelength.

There's literal scientific studies about how the different regional bird song of birds unlocks pores in trees so that they can absorb more oxygen.

There's literal science about that.

And if birdsong can do that to trees, what can music do in us?

What has music done in us?

And no doubt, music finds a way to find a place in our lives.

It represents a time.

It represents a person.

But I think it also represents a remembering that we are all a part of something bigger than ourselves, that we have more in common with each other than we have apart.

And so for me, I love doing music as a part of my art form, and I love creating music that can hopefully remind people and most importantly, remind myself that I'm a part of nature, that

god to me used to be something that told me that i was wrong and now god to me is nature a cathedral built on hatred is now a cathedral built by a forest that when i look at my hand and i see this pattern on my hand i can see the same pattern in a river i can see the same pattern on a leaf

I am nature.

Queerness is nature.

I think the biggest thing that music has taught me though is the power of collaboration.