The Red Album

articles about songs from “The Red Album: Pagan Voices for Reproductive Rights”, which is a compilation of pro-choice and pro-bodily autonomy songs. Many of the bloggers at pagansong.com have songs on this album.

A Tragic Tale: When Choice is Gone

“She’s getting no rest, she just failed her pregnancy test. How’s she gonna care for a little child? She can barely feed herself, no food’s left on the shelf. Frustration makes her rage and scream and cry.” I wrote Nothing Holy but the Blood for The Red Album: Pagan Voices for Reproductive Rights, to add another step on …

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The Red Album: Chant, Song & Rap

By Kira Lang of Spiral Rhythm Our three tracks on The Red Album: Pagan Voices for Reproductive Rights (redalbum.org) are very different but with the same goal.  Bringing awareness to reproductive rights, raising funds to benefit those in need, and using our voices in protest of injustice. They are the chant Mother Of by Kiki …

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Pagan Music for Protest and Activism

1971 and I was 9, living an almost idyllic childhood, deeply loved and sheltered from the world and news of the Vietnam War, riots, racism, and rising feminism. But that summer, the protest lyrics and subversive rhythms that began drifting through the car window at stop lights, on the radio at a friend’s pajama party, …

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The Red Album: Crow Women’s Story

We’re the Crow Women, a Goddess-focused women’s circle that has had a long, rich life as a pagan coven as well as a parallel identity as an award-winning pagan choir. We’re feminists, and that informs our political actions, our spiritual practice and our music. When a group of pagan musicians from across the USA decided …

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