THE PENNY PUB
Standing Up for My Creative Life Against Critical Voices
My mother’s voice and my own
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4 min readJun 11, 2024
In 1993, the legendary rock band Aerosmith released an album called Get a Grip. The cover featured a photo of a cow’s udder. A hoop piercing dangled from one teat — hopefully photoshopped — and the band’s signature wings were stamped on the cow’s thigh, as though to brand…