Rachel Cholst

It happened again. For the second year in a row, my colleagues and I have organized an LGBTQIA+ Valentine's dance at the community college I teach at in the South Bronx. There were about 80 people in the room — an unheard-of turnout at a commuter campus — and only

Out with the old, and in with the new. While the current events of the new year are things we'd probably all like to chuck out the window already (this seems to be an increasingly true statement as every year passes), in the queer country world there is

If you're reading this, you have a sense of how deeply important No Depression is to independent roots music. Maybe you've been reading since the glossy magazine days of the 1990s (I have a vivid memory of picking up this issue with Lucinda Williams on the

There's a peculiar phenomenon that LGBTQIA+ people face in the 21st century: as we gain more social acceptance (a when, not an if – something most of us couldn't imagine when we were growing up) we find ourselves blazing seemingly new trails. This is the first time

Music is political. I don’t mean the content – though this historical moment is certainly inspiring its share of protest music. I’m referring instead to the act of creating and making it – commodified by our entertainment industry, and only possible to create and distribute if an artist’s material