Uploaded December 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
There’s a lot of fear right now for women’s safety and autonomy. In times like these, I look to old folk songs and ballads to remember how brilliant and subversive women and femmes have always been. This English folk song, known as “The Maid Who Sold Her Barley” goes back nearly 350 years, and tells the story of a clever maiden who cleverly and resoundingly rebukes an eager erm, “suitor” on the road.
If you want to feel into your own strength by singing the old songs of creative, humorous and witty women, join me for Badass Women in Folksong this winter! Our class goes from mid-January to mid-February, and every week we explore a different theme related to witty and wily women from English, Scottish and Appalachian folk song. These are stories about creativity, survival, reproductive choices, soldiering, magic wielding and more.
With the current climate in our culture, and the very real harm happening women both cisgender and trans, nonbinary folks, AFAB folks of any gender and more- this is the time to dig into feminist songs that express anger, humor and hope in the face of these struggles.
This course goes on sale next week- virtual and in-person options are available!
If you joyn my newsletter now (lynked through the linktr.ee on my creator page) you’ll get a special discount offer next week when sales begin!
*A note that when I talk about women’s experiences in this course, we’re talking about people perceived of, treated as, or identified as women both historically and today. In other words, people who have gendered themselves as women or been gendered by the broader culture as women. This includes trans women, nonbinary folks and other identities. We also talk about femmes in the context of the course as folks who might have a variety of sexual or gender identities, but who present as feminine (and as a result, can also be impacted negatively by patriarchal cultures)*
There’s a lot of fear right now for women’s safety and autonomy. In times like these, I look to old folk songs and ballads to remember how brilliant and subversive women and femmes have always been. This English folk song, known as “The Maid Who Sold Her Barley” goes back nearly 350 years, and tells the story of a clever maiden who cleverly and resoundingly rebukes an eager erm, “suitor” on the road.
If you want to feel into your own strength by singing the old songs of creative, humorous and witty women, join me for Badass Women in Folksong this winter! Our class goes from mid-January to mid-February, and every week we explore a different theme related to witty and wily women from English, Scottish and Appalachian folk song. These are stories about creativity, survival, reproductive choices, soldiering, magic wielding and more.
With the current climate in our culture, and the very real harm happening women both cisgender and trans, nonbinary folks, AFAB folks of any gender and more- this is the time to dig into feminist songs that express anger, humor and hope in the face of these struggles.
This course goes on sale next week- virtual and in-person options are available!
If you joyn my newsletter now (lynked through the linktr.ee on my creator page) you’ll get a special discount offer next week when sales begin!
*A note that when I talk about women’s experiences in this course, we’re talking about people perceived of, treated as, or identified as women both historically and today. In other words, people who have gendered themselves as women or been gendered by the broader culture as women. This includes trans women, nonbinary folks and other identities. We also talk about femmes in the context of the course as folks who might have a variety of sexual or gender identities, but who present as feminine (and as a result, can also be impacted negatively by patriarchal cultures)*
