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Pronouns

from Mordecai by Dr. Fruit

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Dr. Fruit’s pronouns are ‘they/them.’

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Why is it so hard to talk about someone
Without throwing their gender in too?
Do we really need to know everyone’s parts?
Anyway, ‘he’ or ‘she,’ what’s it all point to?

Pronouns, pronouns,
Girl or boy, boy or girl, each time they say.
But if you don’t care about parts
On the person you’re talking about,
You can use singular ‘they.’

That helps break down the boxes,
The binary orthodoxy,
Making more options than two.
It dismantles that hierarchy,
Heteropatriarchy,
Bringing our selves into fuller view.

Making up new words is good
For getting out who we are
And where we come from.
Imagine a language that includes without limit
Expressions of gender and all that it could become.

Justice trumps grammar,
We don’t need a banner
Announcing perceptions from birth.
Let’s be who we are,
Not trap ourselves inside a jar.
Let’s celebrate gender for all that it’s worth.

[Chorus]

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from Mordecai, released September 3, 2019

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Dr. Fruit Durham, North Carolina

Intelligent kids' tunes that combine Dr. Fruit’s youthful passion for social change with playful attitudes towards gender, vegetables, and biology.

Dr. Fruit lives in Durham, NC with their dog, Mordecai.

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