Music and a Movement: A Conversation with the Indigo Girls | SXSW 2023

For over four decades, Indigo Girls have made the personal political. Long before intersectional work became a focus in movement building, Amy Ray and Emily Saliers used their platform to elevate Native grassroots activists — modeling a lens that would take decades to show up in popular culture Join Ray, and Saliers with special guest Cynthia Perez of the Honor the Earth foundation, for a discussion on the intersection of activism and art, what it means to use a platform in music today, and the importance of centering Indigenous voices in the pressing fight for environmental justice.

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