Got a Girl Crush On: Shilpa Ray

This Brooklyn-based chanteuse is the heir to Patti Smith’s speak-singing with attitude.

The idea for this video was “conceived” during the Todd Akin controversy. Ray posed the question, “What would the conversation be like if we were discussing male reproductive rights?” on Facebook, to which her friend, and fellow musician, Michael Leviton replied: “Every time a man ejaculates and fails to conceive, he’s killing millions of sperm which are living organisms.” If you were to take the ludicrous conservative ideas about abortion and birth control and apply them to men, then every sperm lost would be a life lost.

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Photo by Erbu Yildiz