found an intersex song

[mlle de carabas]

I posted awhile back that I was looking both for Is musicians and for songs abvout IS stuff, I've found the latter. as an xmas gift my brother gave me the EP "Nadine" by Frank Black and the Catholics. Track 2 is "Hermaphroditos" anbd the lyrics are up at http://members.cox.net/fbsi/hermaphroditos.html
I'm curious as to what people think of the song--Cynthya

[Peter]

Thanks for the link. I have not heard the song but I found the lyrics interesting, especially the two lines:

/ how do you love me / deeply with your scalpel? /

I guess that being intersex gives fresh meaning to the phrase "love is the unkindest cut of all".

The best intersex lyrics that I have composed, IMHO are:

/ I saw flowers in every direction / It was a windy day in my soul /

But as my mom said, it all depends on who is singing the song ;)

Peter

[mlle de carabas]

>>I have not heard the song but I found the lyrics interesting, especially the two lines:
>>/ how do you love me / deeply with your scalpel? /
>>I guess that being intersex gives fresh meaning to the phrase "love is the unkindest cut of all".

I think it shows that pain and mutilation still are, unfortunately, experiences common to many IS folks, I’m curious as to how Frank Black came up with that myself… I would expect this to pop up in a song which goes back to the Greek myths, as the other Greek myth I know of on IS stuff is the story of Agdistis (a hermaphroditic person who was castrated by Dionysos).

>>The best intersex lyrics that I have composed, IMHO are:
>>/ I saw flowers in every direction / It was a windy day in my soul /
>>But as my mom said, it all depends on who is singing the song ;)

That’s beautiful…and goes to a point I was about to make sinewhere on this thread.
I really think those of us who are really creative/artistic should start doing more with it, and putting our work out there so we can say “that’s our art/music/plays out in the world” and others can see us in our own words/pictures. I myself am trying to do this, though I don’t have anything really ready other than the essays I do 
Thanks, Cynthya

“Don’t give me songs/
Give me something to sing about”
—Buffy in “Once More With Feeling” (the Buffy musical)