#fromcaplantobelsize

"I don't wanna talk about it any more than you," Lande Hekt sings on one of the tracks on UK trio Muncie Girls' debut full-length, From Caplan To Belsize. "In fact, I wanna talk about it less when it's with you/ If you can't get your head around it now, then how is this something I can help you figure out?" Being tokenized and told you are expected to represent an entire group of people — the girl in the band, the queer in the scene, the person of color in a room — happens time and time again in the music industry and in day-to-day life, as you're forced to talk about your otherness as a means to make the rest feel more comfortable and progressive for acknowledging your existence. There's two paths to go down when confronted with this conflict: Refuse to engage with those seeking justification or explanation, an admirable but difficult goal when faced with the pressures of reality. Or to make sure that each time you do speak up, it's as an exclamation point on a conversation that