Witch of the East Cursed the TERF Crusade and Scored a Soundtrack for Resistance with Geist Girl

Witch of the East needs few introductions these days; she’s prolific in her mission of reshaping culture while too many still scrape around in the gutter, mistaking their thin-skinned bigotry for moral concern. Every track she creates, every post she publishes, every poem she breathes into the world is an act of resistance, which repurposes hate, exposes it, and uses it to charge a counterculture movement. As a trans TikTok trailblazer, viral visual artist, poet, and darkwave siren, all her talents alchemise to advocate for trans rights and expose the most spectral sides of souls who’ve discovered the pain of self-awareness in a world that demands we sleepwalk through hegemonic fantasy. Instead of flinching from the darkness, she cracks it open and lets something altogether more powerful pour out. Every day, Witch of the East puts herself in the digital firing line to bring awareness to the absurdity of the vilification of trans people. Since the UK Supreme Court’s ruling that trans women aren’t legally recognised as women — a ruling as vile as it is historically regressive — she’s only intensified her output. While others pander, she retaliates. While trolls try to bury her in hatred, she builds platforms […] The post Witch of the East Cursed the TERF Crusade and Scored a Soundtrack for Resistance with Geist Girl appeared first on A&R Factory.

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Witch of the East needs few introductions these days; she’s prolific in her mission of reshaping culture while too many still scrape around in the gutter, mistaking their thin-skinned bigotry for moral concern. Every track she creates, every post she publishes, every poem she breathes into the world is an act of resistance, which repurposes hate, exposes it, and uses it to charge a counterculture movement. As a trans TikTok trailblazer, viral visual artist, poet, and darkwave siren, all her talents alchemise to advocate for trans rights and expose the most spectral sides of souls who’ve discovered the pain of self-awareness in a world that demands we sleepwalk through hegemonic fantasy. Instead of flinching from the darkness, she cracks it open and lets something altogether more powerful pour out. Every day, Witch of the East puts herself in the digital firing line to bring awareness to the absurdity of the vilification of trans people. Since the UK Supreme Court’s ruling that trans women aren’t legally recognised as women — a ruling as vile as it is historically regressive — she’s only intensified her output. While others pander, she retaliates. While trolls try to bury her in hatred, she builds platforms […]

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