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Original music inspired by Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe and Sex is a Funny Word by by Cory Silverberg and Fiona Smyth
Original music inspired by Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe and Sex is a Funny Word by by Cory Silverberg and Fiona Smyth
The Bushwick Book Club Seattle
presents
Original Music Inspired by
Maia Kobabe’s Gender Queer &
Cory Silverberg’s & Fiona Smyth’s Sex is a Funny Word
June 14, 2025
at Town Hall Seattle
Hosted by Sailor St. Claire
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Featuring Musical Performances from
(Click name for primary link, * = first Bushwick appearance, ^ = lyrics included below)
Rights to all song lyrics ©/℗ the individual artists, reprinted here with permission
Kat Bula
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jean mann^
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Kuwaisiana
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Lauren Fernandez*^
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Rodeo Coven^
nance! Website nance! Instagram
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Original music inspired by
Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe
and
Sex is a Funny Word by
Cory Silverberg and Fiona Smyth
PERFORMER-PROVIDED LYRICS
Rights to all song lyrics ©/℗ the individual artists, reprinted here—exactly as submitted—with permission
jean mann
posey patch world
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One is born in the mountains.
Another by the sea.
That space in between is where you’ll find me.
We ache and sing and love and crush
We’re hearts and bones and life as such
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What does it matter to me
which who you gonna be?
You’re they, You’re them, You’re e, You’re em,
Hello, I’m she, I’m her, I’m me
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And I love you
I love you
I love the you you are
The treasure of you
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A wretched invention
to posit the question.
Who do you think you are?
Whats under my hood don’t match your view
We’re just two flowers in a posey patch world.
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What does it matter to anyone
which who you gonna be?
You’re they, You’re them, You’re e, You’re em,
Hello, I’m she, I’m her I’m me
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We laugh and sing and love and crush
We’re hearts and bones and all above the rest is
love love
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One is born in the mountains.
another by the sea.
That space in between is where you’ll find me
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And I love you
I love you
I love the you you are
The treasure of you
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I’m growing a garden
I’m tending to what’s forgotten
I’m able to see now
What’s inside must be brought out
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Hmmm, hmmmm, hmmmm
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What’s been taken must be returned
What’s still missing must be learned
I’m sure now of what belongs to me
It’s always been mine to keep
Keep
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I would’ve liked to bloom in the spring
Dancing among the petals
But I wasn’t ready to clip off my wings
So I think I’ll just bloom on my own
Carly Sparkly
Drawing the Demons
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I learned to read
Yearned to undress
Felt the grass on my ass with the sun on my chest
Shaved my legs
Started to bleed
Left my heart in the yard where I first stood and peed
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I felt like two halves of a soul
Don’t know where you could put me or where I should go
But I know
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I will not go alone
I will go boldly nowhere and make it feel like home
New ritual: burning all my plans
& drawing the demons that crawl out my hands
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Sailed on a ship
Safe in my mind
Touched a body part that I don’t have all the time
Bit my lip
Cried in the car
Tried to come out to mom but we didn’t get far
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I think my friends might already know
There’s not just one direction where I’m meant to go
It all flows
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I will not float alone
I will go boldly nowhere and make it feel like home
New ritual: burning all my plans
& drawing the demons that crawl out my hands
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And I’ll burn up your lawn when I crash land in your yard
In the shape of a brain with two mouths- one might call you out
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I will not crash alone
I will go boldly nowhere and make it feel like home
New ritual: burning all my plans
& drawing the demons that crawl out my hands
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I cut off my tags
I shed my skin
Shook the rocks out my shoes and I started again
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Rodeo Coven
hold me close
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two beats of my heart
skipped when i saw you
spent a long time messing around
with people who don’t come through
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when you say my name
my mind starts racing
spent a long time running away
but now i’m doing the chasing
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oh oh oh
oh oh oh oh
oh oh oh
oh oh
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the birds and the bees
and butterflies in my tummy
even if i was a worm in the dirt
i know you’d still love me
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when you sit real close
i’m baskin’ in sunshine
lotta people got a lot to say
but baby don’t pay no mind
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oh oh oh
oh oh oh oh
oh oh oh
oh oh
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two peas in a pod
where’d all the time go?
as long as you’re by my side
we can handle the shit show
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oh oh oh
oh oh oh oh
oh oh oh
oh oh
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i could take you back to my place
pour you a big big glass of water
make you something real good for dinner
then send you home with the leftovers
we could walk around the neighborhood
laugh at all the little dogs barking
get distracted by the sun set
and hope to god thatcha find me charming
guess i’m gonna go to hell for lovin’ you
better stay away from holy water
guess i’m gonna go to hell for bein’ true
’cause i could never be the perfect daughter
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baby hold me close
hold me close
baby hold me close
baby hold me
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oh oh
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