Allison Russell, a Grammy-winning Americana artist, recently released an updated version of her song "Superlover" featuring Annie Lennox. The song reflects on various forms of violence and calls for a collective embrace of empathy and understanding during troubling times. Russell highlights pressing issues like the violence against trans individuals and the risks of deportation for immigrants due to current U.S. administration policies. Her perspective draws parallels between global conflicts and domestic injustices, emphasizing the need for compassion and nonviolence in society today.
I think a superlover is anybody who leans into empathy and forbearance and compassion and understanding and forgiveness and nonviolence.
The song has sort of unfortunately continued to evolve as we continue to have horrific [conflict].
There's an outright war happening on our trans siblings, health care being denied, people dying, actually, from that.
Our own nation's democracy is next to falling at this point. We have extrajudicial deportations.
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