I'm a part of the LGBTQIA+ community. It's super normal for me to have trans women as my friends, to be attracted to and this love story is just about love. When Alaya Dawn Johnson and I collaborated on this story together, we wanted to just normalize what it means to be trans, what it means to be in love, what it means to live in this world where it's not a big deal to the person that loves this person. Why was that an important choice that you wanted to make?
The first sex scene is between two women and one of them is trans.
I was pleasantly surprised by the number of queer love stories in the book. Because as we know, memories are essentially our stories that we tell ourselves to survive. One of the main points that's super important is about the threat of censorship, memory censorship. This book, The Memory Librarian was grown from the soils of my album, Dirty Computer, and my "Emotion Picture" short film, Dirty Computer. It's about us prevailing in the face of this totalitarian society. We're not going to sit back and just allow our freedom to be snatched out of our hands and I think that's what this project is about. And I think that whenever you try to oppress marginalized groups, there's always going to be rebellion. Janelle Monáe: I think that in every generation if we look throughout history and if we study history, it informs our future.
If you had to give a prediction, is that the future where you think we are most likely heading, a place where these still are issues? Jeffrey Masters: Your new book, The Memory Librarian, is set in the future, but this is not a future where queerness or gender nonconformity are broadly accepted.
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You can listen to the full LGBTQ&A interview on Apple Podcasts and read excerpts below. But what I did feel was important that that representation of what it meant to live in your truth, regardless of friends or family supporting it, regardless of people having opinions, it was really more so for me." I have no interest in releasing who I'm dating or not dating, that's not important. "I'd already talked to the necessary folks and I was at peace.I'm still a super private person. "I mean, I knew that this was the time for me," she said. Monáe, who came out as pansexual in 2018 and last month shared with the public that she's nonbinary, also said that when it comes to sharing details about her identity, "nobody tells me what to do." "I'm being super present, I'm laughing more, I'm partying with my friends more, I'm really more relaxed as an artist and so I think that my music is probably going to be, without giving too much away, less heady and less about fighting against opposition." In a new interview with the LGBTQ&A podcast, she opened up about being in a "celebratory space" and says that's being reflected in her music. It's been four long years since the release of Janelle Monáe's career-defining album Dirty Computer and at last, the queer icon is now working on new music.