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Margaret Glaspy
Song of the Day: Following Sudan Archives’ body- and control-themed number, today’s song was written before the Roe v Wade reversal, but released in response, quietly powerful, bluesy protest by the American singer-songwriter backing pro-choice across a variety of situations
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Oumou Sangaré
Song of the Day: From her forthcoming album Timbuktu, a fabulously stirring and upbeat number by the Malian superstar singer and rights campaigner celebrating independent women in her hometown area of Wassulu, released last week to coincide with International Women's Day
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Kim Gordon
Song of the Day: “Take me downtown … the darkness downtown …” A first new single since the ex-Sonic Youth frontwoman’s 2019 solo album No Home Record, this powerful protest number with thrumming bass and dissonant guitars is a charity abortion rights fundraiser for Fund Texas Choice
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Liraz’s second album, Zan.
Songs of the Day: Taken from the fantastic second album, Zan, by the Israeli-Persian singer, actress and activist Liraz Charhi, two wonderful fusions of electro-pop, dance rhythms and Persian music from a work that traverses borders, and gender repressions
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Buy this song and help reclaim safety on streets
Song of the Day: In the wake of the deaths of Blessing Olusegun in Bexhill and Sarah Everard in London, a powerful fundraising postpunk special number for Women’s Aid by a who’s who of indie musicians including Brix Smith
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Ayoni
Song of the Day: Exquisite, soaring lead vocals and harmonies from the Barbadas-born, LA-based soulful singer-songwriter on this acoustic new track that captures the traumas and experience of being a black woman
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Singer, songwriter, banjo player and quite possibly engineer too – Peggy Seeger
Song of the Day: A special song for International Women's Day, sung by a very special woman, with brilliant lyrics all about fighting against the conditioning, prejudice and stereotyping of gender and inequality
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Helen Reddy
Song of the Day: Following from yesterday's Japanese celebration song Girls' Day - Hina Maturi - a truly empowering number by the US-Australian singer to go alongside #March4Women running up to International Women's Day
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Japanese dress up to parade and celebrate Hina Matsuri
Song of the Day: One of our regular readers, Hoshino Sakura, who lives in Japan, takes a turn on SOTD to choose a special song to mark a festival that highlights the rights and importance of women
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