Your Feminist Playlist suggestions please!

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I have a long commute (including school run) and it occured to me that many of the songs I listen to send out actually a fairly crappy message! Please inspire me with your songs of empowerment!

Ah, I love this topic. Wait one moment...

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/1416183-Womens-Music-CHAT-THREAD

One of my favourites. ('I am catching up, and I am seeing red' - me, most of the time at the moment )

Ladykillers by Lush. I once made a tape that was this one song on repeat!

The Boiler by Rhona Dakar & The Specials AKA. Can't seeing it going into any other playlist.

Laura marking has a few good ones. A little bit too emotionally confused for a young child imo but great for teenagers-particularly once I was an eagle.

Anything by L7!

Sheela na gig by p J Harvey

silent all these years- tori amos

rubberband girl- kate bush

You - The Au Pairs

From my feminist playlist:

Bikini Kill - Rebel Girl
Dar Williams - You're Aging Well
Peggy Seeger - I'm Gonna Be An Engineer
Sara Bareilles - King of Anything
Sara Bareilles - Brave
Dixie Chicks - Not Ready to Make Nice
Heather Dale - Joan
Ani DiFranco - Not a Pretty Girl
Rachel Platten - Fight Song

I think you'll like this:

@Ereshkigal Looks like I've invoked you (above)!

Alanis Morissette - Not the Doctor

I don't want to be the filler if the void is solely yours
I don't want to be your glass of single malt whiskey
Hidden in the bottom drawer
I don't want to be a bandage if the wound is not mine
Lend me some fresh air
I don't want to be adored for what I merely represent to you
I don't want to be your babysitter
You're a very big boy now
I don't want to be your mother
I didn't carry you in my womb for nine months
Show me the back door

Visiting hours are 9 to 5 and if I show up at 10 past 6
Well I already know that you'd find some way to sneak me in and oh
Mind the empty bottle with the holes along the bottom
You see it's too much to ask for and I am not the doctor

I don't want to be the sweeper of the egg shells that you walk upon
And I don't want to be your other half, I believe that 1 and 1 make 2
I don't want to be your food or the light from the fridge on your face
At midnight, hey
What are you hungry for
I don't want to be the glue that holds your pieces together
I don't want to be your idol
See this pedestal is high and I'm afraid of heights
I don't want to be lived through
A vicarious occasion
Please open the window

Visiting hours are 9 to 5 and if I show up at 10 past 6
Well I already know that you'd find some way to sneak me in and oh
Mind the empty bottle with the holes along the bottom
You see it's too much to ask for and I am not the doctor

I don't want to live on someday when my motto is last week
I don't want to be responsible for your fractured heart
And it's wounded beat
I don't want to be a substitute for the smoke you've been inhaling
What do you thank me
What do you thank me for

Janis Joplin.

Kirsty MacColl. I miss her.

Christina Aguilera - Cant hold us down
Hungry Hearts - Vagina anthem (obviously)

Im listening to these 2 quite a bit right now

I have a Feminist Playlist. It's my pride and joy, but is probably more Fuck Off Men than Feminist. Hits include:

You don't own me - Leslie Gore
Gonna Get Along Without You Now - Viola Wills
That's Not My Name - Ting Tings
Get Gone - Fiona Apple
Before He Cheats - Carrie Underwood
Goodbye Earl - Dixie Chicks

Tori Amos - Silent all these years, the power of orange knickers, sleeps with butterflies, tear in your hand

The veronicas - you ruin me

Lily Allen - hard out here

Natasha bedingfield - single

Lisa Loeb - stay

Sinead O'Connor - No man's woman, jealous, the state im in, Troy

Helen reddy - I am woman - hear me roar

Sia - the greatest

Kate bush - this woman's work

Dolly parton - 9 to 5

Phew and that is just a start of my many hundreds of similar songs

Has to include Ani Difranco!

Some for after the kids have been dropped off...

Kesha - Woman
Kesha - Bastards
4 Non Blondes - Whats Up
Taylor Swift - I Did Something Bad

Theuncommonreader Yes to Lush ~ Ladykillers I've already exposed my teen/tween DDs to that on playlists and they are hooked. I guess the lyrics will have more meaning in time to them.

No Doubt - Just a Girl

I must go back over the last threads on this and make a huge long playlist.