The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman (American Music Series)

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The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman (American Music Series)A memoir in essays on transness, dad rock, and the music that saves us. When Wilcos 2007 album Sky Blue Sky was infamously criticized as dad rock, Niko Stratis was a twenty five year old closeted trans woman working in her dads glass shop in the Yukon Territory. As she sought escape from her hypermasculine environment, Stratis found an unlikely lifeline amid dad rocks emotionally open and honest music. Listening to dad rock, Stratis could access

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