Home Creators Posts Import Register Favorites Logout
haven't archived this post yet. have a subscription? use the importer!

Content

hallo

loves

greetings from queenstown, where i’ve brought ash for school holidays. anybody here? advice? suggestions? i’m almost entirely offline while i take ash into the mountains and lakes. today at the remarkables farmers market …



meanwhile…halsey’s new album cover:


and statement




i’ve never felt compelled to copy and paste another artist’s album cover straight into my feed - until this. i grew up in a culture filled with powerful women rock icons, but the majority hid their reproductive selves away in order to compete with the men in the music industry.


childbearing was simply seen as a move that took you out of the field. we need more of this. less shame, more truth = more power for all beings.

so full standing ovation, halsey.

i cannot wait to hear the record and see what your reproductive ride has injected into your art-making. i know all of it - abortion, childbirth, miscarriage - shamelessly changed my songwriting-brain forever, and for the better.


(the artwork from “machete”, by allan amato)

ZEITGEIST

🙏🏼🎉🫀💃💥


this is one of those threads where i wish you could post photos in the comments. i cross-posted it to facbook, instagram, and twitter if you wanna share artwork or photos.

i love you all.



x

a


p.s. thank you to alex (knight) for texting me the news and art

Files

Previews only

Comments

EmVT

Once I heard power defined as 'beauty, strength, simplicity'. Gorgeous, powerful images. I'm not a mom but I recognize this super-power feeling in the faces of my friends who became moms. It's good to see images of powerful women, the more the better.

Len Tower Jr.

What powerful art & life full images of Halsey & her child, and you & Ash !!! When I was there in 1986, we: * took a bus to the boat tour of Milford Sound & its waterfalls. * took a boat across the lake to experience a sheep farm. * took a bus to a plateau with Queenstown's lights mostly blocked by a mountain for some night-time star grazing. I'll remember that Southern sky & its delights forever. (Note: I've been an amateur astronomer forever.) -Len

Aqualynne Carnahan

I went to to my monthly Facebook check in (I hate Facebook) and I was going through friend request. I realized that I only accept people I have met IRL and artist. Because I secretly hope someone will come across them on my page and get turned on to something new. And I realized that I learned this behavior from AMANDA PALMER! Giving exposure to art and artists is very rewarding. Love this post and the amazing art!

TKQ

It'd be cool if you could do a collab with her.

Anonymous

I can already tell this will be a hard album to listen to, having had two kiddos and gone through horrible post partum depression. Seeing other women face how hard pregnancy and childbirth and motherhood is, and turn it into something empowering and beautiful and uplifting (for themselves and other women) is just incredible.

Joni

I had a BAD birthing experience... I'll leave it there. I've never felt less in control of my own body than giving birth in a hospital. I'm not sure I've even regained full autonomy 9.5 years later... I don't have words for all the feelings I have about this... I wish I had half your gift @amanda but all my heart is screaming... YES!!! This. This is SO important... And the conversation we must have. ♥️♥️

Lif Strand

Halsey's album cover is fantastic, but your Machete photo -- it's the One for me. It resonated from the moment I saw it years ago and if anything is more powerful now than it was then.

Anna McCotter

I f*king adore Halsey. Spot on 👏👏👏

Anna McCotter

Blade + baby … shiiiit we all know what time it is. The power is too infinite for words

Melody

Aaaaaaahhhhhhh I love Halsey and this is amazing. Let's get more, more, more of this amazing power into the world, because the world fucking needs us.

Mel Legget

I wrote somewhere, maybe IG, this is gorgeous and so is your Machete photo I remember well, and of course your NY City Library Exhibit(ion) * Beautiful breasts beautiful moms, beautiful babies, all natural, all life giving, all strong . . . (me, too! :) xo My #NurseAChildNurseANation campaign! <3 hearts .....

Jozias

Support for all good work you do for women and birth and thanks for your art.

Noah Christie

Simply beautiful. Women are so great. It makes my heart throb.