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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMiley Cyrus, Joan Jett Start Charity Aimed At Homeless LGBT Youth
To help raise funds and awareness for her new foundation, Cyrus has teamed with Facebook for the Backyard Sessions, which will find the singer teaming with another artist for a unique performance filmed in Cyrus' own backyard. Joan Jett, Ariana Grande, Against Me!'s Laura Jane Grace and Melanie Safka are among the artists who will collaborate with Cyrus for the sessions. Each video will debut exclusively on Facebook with an option to donate toward the Happy Hippie Foundation.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/miley-cyrus-enlists-joan-jett-ariana-grande-for-new-homeless-lgbt-charity-20150505
Classy move I must say!
PeaceNikki
(27,985 posts)Well, and Joan Jett, natch.
Quayblue
(1,045 posts)TeeYiYi
(8,028 posts)TYY
PeaceNikki
(27,985 posts)bigwillq
(72,790 posts)I think she has a pretty decent voice. And I like that she's experimenting, exploring and discovering herself. It's what a lot of folks her age do. She just happens to be in doing it in the public eye. She's active in charities, so that's cool.
PeaceNikki
(27,985 posts)http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/02/politics/miley-cyrus-tom-cotton-arkansas-religious-freedom/
All of her "controversies" have been based on sexist social norms that she pushes. She isn't an asshole animal abuser criminal like that Bieber fuckwad.
Good on her, I say!!
I adore Taylor Swift, too. The way that she connects with and lifts up her young fans is heartwarming.
Logical
(22,457 posts)yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)Yeah, Miley, too!
Terra Alta
(5,158 posts)She is a class act.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)I love rock and roll, so come and your time and dance with me!
m-lekktor
(3,675 posts)libdem4life
(13,877 posts)NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)libdem4life
(13,877 posts)Perhaps juvenile men/boys.
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)Her crotch is not involved in advocating for homeless LGBT youths.
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)she's advocating. Kind of like the new age of Mick Jagger. But as I recall, he kept his clothes on.
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)Good God.
What does this have to do with her work for homeless LGBT youths?
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)positive role model for straight kids, either. Flame away. I will repeat that I hope the Foundation gets a lot of money. Perhaps she's growing up.
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)Appropriate when seeing a person's first response to someone doing good as "Hope she can keep her clothes on!"
I don't think Miley is the one who needs to grow up.
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)libdem4life
(13,877 posts)she can get over...like Kim Kardashian...her attention-getting will grow up.
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)No, you said it. That's why I called you on it.
Please stop with the slut-shaming. It gets old.
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)repeat it. I called it inappropriate. And your definition/accusation equally inappropriate.
liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)young women. It is not a slam on Miley. It is the opposite of a slam on Miley.
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)Initech
(100,079 posts)libdem4life
(13,877 posts)Logical
(22,457 posts)libdem4life
(13,877 posts)an"old timer".
Logical
(22,457 posts)libdem4life
(13,877 posts)Logical
(22,457 posts)libdem4life
(13,877 posts)liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)libdem4life
(13,877 posts)liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)including my daughter's right to act as she chooses and not how someone else thinks she should.
polly7
(20,582 posts)libdem4life
(13,877 posts)hope for their own children. Incredible.
polly7
(20,582 posts)nobody's died from it, as far as I know. I had the misfortune of seeing that Kardashian person in a site that popped up - talk about nearly naked exhibitionism that actually DOES harm - presenting an unrealistic image for young girls to try to emulate. At least Miley is real and honest about herself. That actually is pretty incredible when you think about what so many others have put their bodies through to market themselves. I've always thought she was smart, talented and probably a very good person.
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)huh? The drama ... who died from it???? ... way over the top, as well. Don't believe any such idea was brought forward.
liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)rjsquirrel
(4,762 posts)I have a daughter. Whatever she chooses to do to enjoy and express herself is fine with me.
I'd be very happy to see her as successful and evidently good hearted as Miley Cyrus.
You are mistaking patriarchal prudishness for common sense. You're older, so you don't seem to get it. Girls and women get to decide for themselves how they express their sexuality now. Slut shaming is not cool.
liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)You don't have to like it, but you don't get to tell people how they can dress.
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)Republicans is how she should dress or how she should act. She doesn't need to hear it from Democrats.
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)gifts, charity, and worth as a human being rather than judge them based on their looks or dancing preferences? If Miley is going to be helping LGBT homeless youth that is what should be concentrated on, not her looks or dancing. She is doing a good thing and I for one will do nothing but applaud her.
justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)and her True Colors Foundation.
liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Joan Jett has been 20% cooler as long as I can remember.
Skittles
(153,164 posts)gawd, to me Ms. Jett and Chrissie Hynde will always be the queens of bad-girl cool
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)I said to myself "if she sounds as cool as she looks, I am in LUV, L-U-V." And she did. And I was.
Saw their first tour at a JAMMED First Avenue here in Mpls back in 1980 or 81. Memory's gettin' a little foggy.
And I still love the "Don't Get Me Wrong" video with Chrissie as the distaff side of The Avengers, complete with cameo by Patrick Macnee as John Steed.
vankuria
(904 posts)Kudos to both of them!
H2O Man
(73,558 posts)I think she is an outstanding young lady.
SunSeeker
(51,564 posts)She is the real deal. One of the top ten rockers out there, male or female. And she's been rocking for 40 years!
libodem
(19,288 posts)I ♡ this effort.
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)are not synonymous. Maybe now she can leave that juvenile behavior behind..
I wish the Happy Hippie Foundation well.
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)libdem4life
(13,877 posts)NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)libdem4life
(13,877 posts)NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)See? Joan Jett's music is great like that.
Logical
(22,457 posts)Just like whining!
rjsquirrel
(4,762 posts)Crotches? No one even uses that word anymore.
And yes, music and sexuality are deeply connected throughout human history.
You're a prude. Listen to everyone telling you that your views are not progressive, they are MISOGYNIST.
NobodyHere
(2,810 posts)Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)I can answer that. They do it because most of the homeless youth charities out there are run by Christian churches and those particular Christian churches do not allow GLBT youth to get any help unless it is accompanied by reparation therapy and other hideous punishments. I stayed homeless because I got tired of that crap really quick like. As bad as it was to be homeless, it was worse to be tortured and endure the spiritual and mental abuse at the hands of those people.
liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)is bisexual. I can't ever imagine throwing my child out of my house. I just don't understand why.
AuntPatsy
(9,904 posts)Homeless...
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)I look forward to this. Wow, this Miley Cyrus person is turning out to be a good egg.
flvegan
(64,408 posts)Gonna go all charity for homeless GLBT kids, that's a paddling.
Because Miley Cyrus. Idiots. No, seriously. You are idiots.
Initech
(100,079 posts)ismnotwasm
(41,986 posts)Great news
liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)She is awesome. She doesn't take any crap off of anyone.
She was opening for The Who on their 50th anniversary tour.
You may worship me for my fabulous taste in music.