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It’s kind of just been like a buildup, you know?
One time they were like, “Do you wanna speak at this thing?” And I was like “yeah,” and then I got invited to more and more of these things. That eventually led me to the point where my parents were like, “At a certain age you can start telling your own story.” Because I have more words for it I feel like. Long story short, had to pay me a settlement that’ll pay for my college one day. When I was little I faced gender-based bullying, specifically because I was trans, which is not good. How did you get started in advocacy work? Supreme Court, dressed in their finest prom attire.Įditor’s note: Our conversation with Hildie has been edited for length and clarity. Edwards and about 100 other trans youth marched from the U.S. Last month Edwards traveled to Washington, D.C., for Trans Youth Prom, a party organized by four trans teens to celebrate transgender kids around the country as many state governments limit their rights to use bathrooms, play sports and more. Poised and confident in front of crowds, the almost-8th grader is often asked to participate in events or speak at rallies, whether performing at Twin Cities Pride or taking the podium at a protest outside the Capitol. Tim Walz as he signed the executive order. The bill passed, making Minnesota one of only a handful of states with a law of this kind. I look forward to the day where Minnesota laws not only allow me to exist, but when they are written to make sure trans kids like me are affirmed and celebrated for the amazing people they are,” Edwards said during her testimony. Hey, I know, it’s only Rock ‘n’ Roll - but I like it.“Basic human rights should not be an end goal. We must’ve done alright because they I invited back for another show a couple weeks later I hit on them for all I was worth but they wanted nothing to do with me. We spent the night at Skip’s sister’s apartment which was chock-a-block with college girls. Skip had a sister going to Eastern Michigan and she hired us to play some big frat hoo-hah.
Playing for the high school dances was great but probably the best was the two shows we did for a college crowd down in Ypsilanti. For the life of me, I don’t know why John (guitar), Skip (bass) and I didn’t pick up another drummer and continue on. After that, the organ player and our 15-year-old drummer quit and we broke up. I sang for the Harris Tweed all during my junior year, 1967-68. I could sing like a choirboy and howl like a banshee in those days. Then I broke into our opening number - ‘”One, two, three, good love!” My drummer and keyboard player, neither of whom liked me, glared.Īnd then - the gym erupted in laughter and applause. My bandmates shuffled nervously behind me. And wait till you all get a load of our light show.”ĭead silence.
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I stepped up to the mic to introduce us, knowing full well that all the kids crowding around us in the MSB gymnasium were blind, and I said, “Hi everybody, we’re the Harris Tweed and we’re here to rock. Only problem was, it got so hot, the bulb would blister if we left it on too long so we could only use it every third or fourth song.Īnyway, it was very cool. It produced a brilliant white strobe effect and made us look like we were in an old movie.The
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It was a movie projector bulb inside a box with a motorized propeller in front of it. At the time, we were the only band in town with a primitive light show. It was at Michigan School for the Blind that I took a big comedy risk. Related ArticlesĬolumn: Through the past brightly, June 3 The lowest we ever played for was the $60 door-take at Waverly Jr.
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We got paid anywhere from $100 to $150, which may not sound like much but we were just kids plus we’re talking 1968 dollars. We played at Michigan School for the Blind, where Stevie Wonder went. We played all the area high schools - Mason, Holt, Waverly, Owasso and O’Rafferty. We played all the hits at the time, “Light My Fire,” “Satisfaction,” “Purple Haze,” “My Back Pages,” “Well Respected Man” and more. That’s right, I was lead singer and front man for a rock ‘n’ roll cover band when I was 16 and we had gigs just about every weekend. There were a number of bands plying the Lansing pop/rock dance circuit in the mid-’60s - the Woolies, the Plagues, the Ones, the Frightened Trees and my band - the Harris Tweed. One good thing in my younger days, back in the late Pleistocene, was that all the local high schools held dances on the weekends and every one featured live music.
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