Like all of our previous releases, this issue shaped itself in a lot of ways. Long before COVID-19, our intention for the “Death and Rebirth” theme was to leave behind what was no longer serving us as a community, and to identify and introduce routines to strengthen our goals over the next decade. However, little did we know that we’d be producing this issue in a space between those two words: the death of World A and the rebirth of World B.
We are experiencing a historic moment in time, when the entire world is currently shedding layers of what life used to be and living in a daily unknown of what’s to come. Alongside a global pandemic, we’re also witnessing a climate crisis, the continuous murders of innocent Black men and women by police, and horrific cases of brutality against women around the world.
As crushing as that might be, it is significant to why we’re all here in the first place: justice. In 2012, the She Shreds community banded together to demand justice in visibility and to be acknowledged and treated as the musicians that we are. In 2016 that demand was reframed to include justice in representation and equality, and to hold the industry accountable not just for their acceptance, but for the unapologetic inclusion of who we are, what we look like, and how we sound.
Today, as we face social upheaval in 2020, I believe that we’re all fighting for justice in truth: the death of cycles that harm us, and the rebirth of our practices—not as something that we eventually lose and forget, but as daily commitments through our actions.
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so are you GONE, gone?
i loved what you did, and loved being able to tell my many female bass and guitar students that there were resources for them that they couldn’t find anywhere else.
thanks. my hope is that your work will carry forth into the world at large in hope for its betterment.
edward a sotelo
Comment by edward a sotelo on June 27, 2020 at 1:54 pmExcited for this new phase for She Shreds.
Comment by Gaby Sue on June 28, 2020 at 11:55 amI will continue supporting this great project. if you need a hand holler!
Gaby
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Comment by JhonyAlice on July 27, 2020 at 2:30 amThe biggest misconception of how the guitar and the player are portrayed is that our expression is singular and our practice is strictly cerebral.
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I hope yall put out anthologies of the print issues one day!!
Comment by Ethan Smith on September 10, 2020 at 3:56 pmI will continue supporting this great project. Thanks
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