Gigs, Guitars and Gender is a podcast that aims to explore the role gender plays in five music scenes across the United States Midwest. In the first five episodes, host Abby Jeffers traveled to Detroit, Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Columbus to talk to musicians in each city about their experiences with gender. This final episode summarizes the entire podcast project thus far. There’s a bit of clarification at the start to explain some vocabulary and concepts that appeared during the series, and then Jeffers compiles three main themes that popped up throughout each episode: tokenism, DIY and performance. There is still much work to be done on the issues of exclusion, tokenism, hypersexualization and discrimination of non-cis men in music. How do we work toward diversity and equality in the music scene? How do we build safe spaces for everyone? This is only the beginning to a much larger discussion – feel free to join the conversation in the comments, by leaving feedback or by tagging Indientry or #GigsGuitarsandGender on social media. Thank you to everyone who participated in this podcast as well as every single person who has listened. Thank you also to Ohio University and the Cutler Scholars Program for helping provide the funds to make this project possible. Music: Rocker Chicks by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Artist: http://audionautix.com/ Support Gigs, Guitars and Gender by donating to the tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/gigs-guitars-and-gender Find out more on the Gigs, Guitars and Gender website.

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Episode Six: The Finale

Gigs, Guitars and Gender is a podcast that aims to explore the role gender plays in five music scenes across the United States Midwest. Host Abby Jeffers travels to Detroit, Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Columbus to talk to musicians in each city about their experiences with gender. This episode is set in the music scene in Columbus, Ohio, and this time, Abby met with Felix and Dylan from Queer Kevin to chat about DIY and tokenism, Markise of Kali Dreamer to talk about performance and the hip-hop scene and Tatum of TTUM to hear about house shows, performance and how allies can help trans and queer musicians be recognized. Queer Kevin Song used: burn all cis men Twitter Instagram Facebook Kali Dreamer Song used: Kali’s Dream Land Instagram Facebook TTUM Song used: SO LONG (Demo) Facebook Instagram Thank you to Ohio University and the Cutler Scholars Program for helping provide the funds to make this project possible. Support Gigs, Guitars and Gender by donating to the tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/gigs-guitars-and-gender Find out more on the Gigs, Guitars and Gender website.

Episode Five: Columbus

Gigs, Guitars and Gender is a podcast that aims to explore the role gender plays in five music scenes across the United States Midwest. Host Abby Jeffers travels to Detroit, Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Columbus to talk to musicians in each city about their experiences with gender. This episode is set in the music scene in Indianapolis, Indiana, and this time, Abby met with Sofia from Harmony Woods to chat about safety and DIY spaces, Ivy and Juliette from corey flood to talk about gender-diverse lineups and tokenization and Pru of noera to hear how the queer music scene splits from the rest of Philadelphia. Harmony Woods Song used: Jenkintown-Wyncote Twitter Instagram Facebook corey flood Song used: Feel Okay Twitter Instagram Facebook noera Song used: Home Alone Facebook Thank you to Ohio University and the Cutler Scholars Program for helping provide the funds to make this project possible. Support Gigs, Guitars and Gender by donating to the tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/gigs-guitars-and-gender Find out more on the Gigs, Guitars and Gender website.

Episode Four: Philadelphia

Gigs, Guitars and Gender is a podcast that aims to explore the role gender plays in five music scenes across the United States Midwest. Host Abby Jeffers travels to Detroit, Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Columbus to talk to musicians in each city about their experiences with gender. This episode is set in the music scene in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Abby met with Cecilia from Het Ward to chat about the DIY music scene, Thomas of Jorts Season to talk tokenization and the lens of gender in interpreting music by queer artists and Tatiana of The Childlike Empress to hear more about tokenization and the racist and gendered interactions that they have experienced in Pittsburgh. Het Ward Song used: THE LIBERAL AGENDA Instagram Facebook Jorts Season Song used: My Idol Twitter Instagram Facebook The Childlike Empress Song used: Take Care Of Yourself (Demo) Facebook Tumblr Thank you to Ohio University and the Cutler Scholars Program for helping provide the funds to make this project possible. Support Gigs, Guitars and Gender by donating to the tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/gigs-guitars-and-gender Find out more on the Gigs, Guitars and Gender website.

Episode Three: Pittsburgh

Gigs, Guitars and Gender is a podcast that aims to explore the role gender plays in five music scenes across the United States Midwest. Host Abby Jeffers travels to Detroit, Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Columbus to talk to musicians in each city about their experiences with gender. This episode is set in the music scene in Indianapolis, Indiana, and this time, Abby met with Gwynn from There Are Ghosts to chat about aspects of performance, Addison from For the Fire to talk about the confidence and stereotypes of women in rock and Katrina and Jennasen of manners, please to hear about tokenization and female-focused events. There Are Ghosts Song used: Trains Collide Twitter Instagram Facebook For The Fire Song used: Overthinking Twitter Instagram Facebook manners, please Song used: Hysteria Twitter Instagram Facebook Thank you to Ohio University and the Cutler Scholars Program for helping provide the funds to make this project possible. Support Gigs, Guitars and Gender by donating to the tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/gigs-guitars-and-gender Find out more on the Gigs, Guitars and Gender website.

Episode Two: Indianapolis

Gigs, Guitars and Gender is a podcast that aims to explore the role gender plays in five music scenes across the United States Midwest. Host Abby Jeffers travels to Detroit, Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Columbus to talk to musicians in each city about their experiences with gender. This episode centers on the music scene in Detroit, Michigan, and Abby met with indie rocker Stef Chura to talk tokenization, feminist punk duo GIRL FIGHT to talk representation in rock and rapper Tiny Jag to talk materialism in the Detroit rap scene. Stef Chura Song used: Degrees Twitter Instagram Facebook GIRL FIGHT Song used: My Own God Instagram Facebook Tiny Jag Song used: Riding Twitter Instagram Thank you to Ohio University and the Cutler Scholars Program for helping provide the funds to make this project possible. Support Gigs, Guitars and Gender by donating to the tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/gigs-guitars-and-gender Find out more on the Gigs, Guitars and Gender website.

Episode One: Detroit

Gigs, Guitars and Gender is a six-episode podcast series that aims to explore the role gender plays in five music scenes across the United States Midwest. Host Abby Jeffers travels to Detroit, Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Columbus to talk to musicians in each city about their experiences with gender.

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