Ralph Rinzler Collections, Smithsonian Institute

Ralph Rinzler Collections, Smithsonian Institute

jimmie strothers and Joe Lee, 1936

I had no idea that Peggy Seeger is queer! 🙉 I have read more about her

Yea! Its under talked about for sure. Peggy Seeger actually identifies as bisexual and her current partner is Irene Scott. She also contributed to the 2005 book "Getting Bi: voices of bisexuals around the world"

iconic! I love her!

here's a whole album of love poems dedicated to Irene made by Peggy Seeger and released in 2020

AND, the most fucking sapphic thing I have ever heard of or witnessed, peggy seeger and Irene Scott performing "Garden of Flowers" together in her compilation album "Songs of Love and Politics"

this song details the story of two young lovers, and something vaguely terrible happening? It's an incredibly haunting and spooky song and idk guys there is something fundamentally sapphic about it. an underlying yearning and pining perhaps, a feeling of death that rests heavily on the chest. Maybe it's just because it's a tragic heterosexual love story being performed by a sapphic couple. I think about this song often and will probably make a song of the day post about it.

god, I love her so much. Peggy Seeger is the age of my grandmother right now and is the only queer woman I know (beyond speculation I mean) from the folk scene. She is also just super cool in general! I'm a butch lesbian, and it soooo important to me to know that sapphic people, throughout history both recent and old, have always existed. We have always been here. God bless Peggy Seeger, I hope someday she is recognized as a sapphic icon in the same way as Chappell Roan or Tracy Chapman.

Song of the day

do you want to know the history of a folk song? submit an ask or dm me and I'll cover it

"Little Boxes" Malvina Reynolds, 1967-70s

originally written by her in 1962 and first recorded by her friend Pete Seeger in 1963. where it was his only charting single in 1964

the song is a fun satire, poking fun at the crushing normativity that was present in the 50s and 60s.

so true @electronic-chocolate

Shirley Collins

Woody Guthrie, Tear the fascists down, colored pencil.