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Everything a teenager does, says or looks at, however transitory, contributes to an aggregated virtual self that might one day have consequences for its real-life counterpart. How many of us would keep all our relationships and reputations intact if every transgression, mistake or youthful folly was held in public view?
Beeban Kidron
Day
Mistake
Every
Consequences
Virtual
Teenager
Relationships
Our
Everything
Says
One Day
Would
Folly
Self
Counterpart
Looks
Does
How
Intact
However
Public
Transgression
Might
Transitory
Reputations
Us
Held
View
Youthful
Many
Keep
Vittorio De Sica famously made 'Bicycle Thieves'; that's the film of his everybody knows.
Beeban Kidron
Made
Bicycle
Thieves
Everybody
Knows
His
Film
We have allowed a situation to develop in which it is legal for a multibillion dollar industry to own, wholly and in perpetuity, the intimate and personal details of children.
Beeban Kidron
Legal
Own
Situation
Intimate
Details
Develop
Allowed
Industry
Dollar
Perpetuity
Personal
Children
Which
Wholly
I love text, I love email, I love Skype; I think it's amazing.
Beeban Kidron
Love
Amazing
Think
Email
Text
Skype
I'm in the communications business.
Beeban Kidron
Business
Communications
I often go out on the street with my camera and ask questions.
Beeban Kidron
Out
Go
Camera
Questions
Often
Ask
Street
There is nothing wrong with Facebook in itself, except that it is not a very good tool to express the quality of your relationships.
Beeban Kidron
Good
Facebook
Quality
Nothing
Tool
Relationships
Except
Wrong
Itself
Very
Your
Express
I like the accidental nature of being in the real world.
Beeban Kidron
Nature
World
Like
Real
Accidental
Being
The Real World
Real World
I've discovered my Jewishness late in life. And I've really enjoyed exploring that world.
Beeban Kidron
Life
World
Late
Discovered
Really
Exploring
Enjoyed
I've liked being Jewish in America - there's a secular version of Jewishness there that's more about bagels and jokes than going to synagogues.
Beeban Kidron
Jokes
Secular
About
More
Liked
Version
Than
America
Going
Being
Jewish
Girls from poor families of the 'untouchable,' or lower, caste are 'married' to Yellamma as young as four. No longer allowed to marry a mortal, they are expected to bestow their entire lives to the service of the goddess.
Beeban Kidron
Service
Girl
Goddess
Young
Married
Marry
Bestow
Entire
Entire Lives
Caste
Allowed
Mortal
Longer
Untouchable
Families
Expected
Poor
Lower
Lives
Four
I absolutely don't want to suggest that women are unreliable because we're mothers - on the contrary. But the question of who brings up the kids has a material effect on all women's careers.
Beeban Kidron
Women
On The Contrary
Kids
Unreliable
Absolutely
Because
Material
Mothers
Question
Effect
Women Are
Up
Contrary
Want
Who
Suggest
Brings
Careers
When I was 13, I had a weekend job at the Photographers Gallery Bookshop in London.
Beeban Kidron
Job
Photographers
London
Weekend
Had
Gallery
I'm a freewheeling flower-child falling down the stairs constantly.
Ben Hopkins
Down
Constantly
Falling
Stairs
I'd say, at the end of the day, you know, from a songwriting practice standpoint, you write songs to make yourself feel something true and validating, and cathartic, maybe, and then whoever responds to it is, like, out of your control.
Ben Hopkins
Day
You
Yourself
End Of The Day
Practice
Control
Validating
Say
Responds
Out
Something
Write
Songs
Songwriting
True
Feel
Like
Know
Cathartic
Make
End
Maybe
Then
Your
Standpoint
Whoever
I think the earnestness of what we're saying and what other bands like us are totally saying - or other queer bands - is 'We exist.'
Ben Hopkins
Saying
Think
Other
Earnestness
Totally
Like
Queer
Exist
Bands
Us
When you're a queer person put in the spotlight, you're supposed to have all the answers.
Ben Hopkins
You
Put
Supposed
Spotlight
Answers
Queer
Person
I'm in a car so much on tour that I often just ask my friends to DJ and ask them what they like. That's the best way I discover music.
Ben Hopkins
Music
Best
Car
Way
Best Way
Tour
Like
Discover
Friends
Often
Just
Them
Ask
Much
If you listen to PWR BTTM, or to Gloss, If you look at me on stage, it can make you feel less alone. It makes you feel like you're a queer person and you have this singular power, but it's not like we're a brand. We're just real.
Ben Hopkins
Alone
Me
You
Power
Stage
Feel
Like
Look
Make
Makes
Gloss
Real
Queer
Singular
Brand
Person
Listen
Just
Less
When fringe groups gather, there is power in that.
Ben Hopkins
Power
Fringe
Groups
Gather
There is power in organization. There is power in a community. People have always wanted to destroy communities.
Ben Hopkins
People
Organization
Power
Community
Destroy
Always
Wanted
Communities
The most radical thing about our lives is getting to be in a visibly filled-out queer crowd every night.
Ben Hopkins
Radical
Every
Our
Our Lives
Visibly
About
Crowd
Most
Queer
Getting
Lives
Thing
Every Night
Night
Is punk dressing up in leather jackets? No. It's having a counter-cultural perspective.
Ben Hopkins
Perspective
Punk
Dressing
Having
Leather
Up
Jackets
PWR BTTM fans dress up better than we do.
Ben Hopkins
Better
Fans
Dress
Dress-Up
Up
Than
Creating a safe space at our shows isn't encouraging anything. It's just saying thank you.
Ben Hopkins
Saying
You
Space
Thank You
Our
Safe
Encouraging
Thank
Just
Anything
Creating
Shows
For me, choosing to perform in drag, because of all the things I enjoy about it, is a political act.
Ben Hopkins
Me
Political
Enjoy
About
Perform
Because
Political Act
Act
Choosing
Things
Drag
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