Slayed by Voices, by Jon Weisman

Slayed by Voices, by Jon Weisman

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Slayed by Voices, by Jon Weisman
'When I Was a Boy'

'When I Was a Boy'

In a deeply personal story, Dar Williams takes on prescribed childhood gender roles and the damage they leave behind

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Jan 17, 2022
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Dar Williams and I were born the same year, 1967. Yet when I first encountered her, in 1995 via this album from the late, lamented 101.9 FM in Los Angeles, she seemed light years ahead of me in maturity.

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