We’re all a product of both nature and nurture. Part of what makes us who we are is set in stone when we’re born, written right through the very core of our being like a stick of rock. However, much of our identity is determined by the world around us. The when and where, the wants, expectations and attitudes of the time and place we happen to inhabit. It’s curious to think how fundamentally changed we’d be as people, had we been born under different circumstances. That’s the alternate reality that singer/songwriter Kitty Perrin ponders on her new single ‘Stood Up’.

Inspired by reading about the life of queer icon Audre Lorde and the hardships she faced, the song reflects on what it would have been like to live life in her shoes. ‘Stood Up’ sees Kitty reflect on whether she’d have the strength and resilience to be open and vocal about her identity in such an unaccepting time. Have the courage to love freely or be forced to hide away. Thinking on how much of her true self would remain without the loving, supporting community she’s been lucky enough to have around her to lift her up. Though society has made plenty of progress since Lorde’s day, there’s sadly still a long way to go, and Kitty Perrin’s wonderfully frank songwriting, celebrating her own queer identity, is very much a step on the same journey, supporting the same cause as the brave women that came before.