Shanti shares their queer journey and multicultural background and how it impacts their art as a musician.

Check out Shanti here:

https://shantilalita.bandcamp.com/

https://open.spotify.com/artist/5b6rB2YXab8EnrRvD7hXOa

https://soundcloud.com/lalitacello

https://www.instagram.com/purple.swag/

https://www.youtube.com/@shantilalita?app=desktop

https://themagdalenaproject.org/en/user/2587

Trigger warnings: brief mentions of societal body image and societal body standards.

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Definitions (note: definitions are not identities)

Pansexual - Someone who is sexually or romantically attracted to people of all genders or attracted to people regardless of gender.

Bisexual - Someone who is sexually or romantically attracted to people of two or more genders.

Polysexual - Someone who is sexually or romantically attracted to people of many, but not necessarily all, genders.

Masc - short for masculine, meaning someone who is masculine-identifying and/or presenting and may or may not identify as a man.

Femme - short for feminine, meaning someone who is feminine-identifying and/or presenting and may or may not identify as a woman.

Non-Binary - those that fall outside the traditional male/female binary who may identify as a mix of genders, including binary ones, or no gender at all.

Genderfluid - a non-binary gender identity in which a person's gender identity or expression is unfixed and may identify with multiple genders at once or express different genders at different times which can change over time or depending on the situation.

Lesbian - A lesbian is a woman, girl, or femme-identifying person who is sexually or romantically attracted to another woman, girl, or femme-identifying person. It is also used for sexual identity or behavior, regardless of orientation, or as an adjective to characterize or associate nouns with femme homosexuality.

Homosexual - a person who is sexually or romantically attracted to people of their own gender.

Neurodivergent (a.k.a. neurospicy) - those whose thought patterns, behaviors, or learning styles are not considered typical and may be inaccurately and rudely referred to as not “normal”. It's not a diagnosis, but a way to describe people using words other than "normal" and “abnormal”.

Intersectionality - the concept of how different actual or presumed aspects of a person's identity, such as country or culture of origin or ancestry, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, and body attributes interact resulting in complex combinations of privilege and inequality and therefore how they interact with systems of oppression to create unique experiences of combined privilege and inequality.

Colonization - the act of taking control of a foreign area or people, often through force, to exploit their resources and people.

Imperialism - the expansion of a countries’ political, economic, cultural, military, and media influence beyond its borders.

Post Colonialism - the cultural, political, and economic consequences of colonialism and imperialism, focusing on the impact of human control and exploitation of colonized people and their lands.

New Age - a wide collection of spiritual and religious practices and beliefs borrowed from other cultures that became popular in western society in the 1970s, including alternative spirituality and health practices, and criticized for cultural appropriation.

Cultural Appropriation - when a person or group adopts elements of a culture other than their own in a way that is disrespectful, exploitative, incomplete, or stereotypical.