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My Choice

by Erika Kulnys

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My Choice is the first single from my upcoming album, Stand Together, recorded in Habana at Ojala and Egrem in Habana, Cuba and at Signature Sounds in Connecticut. Stand Together will be released spring 2022.

My Choice was written in response to the Trump administration's erosion of reproductive freedoms and is published in response to the abortion bans in Texas and Mississippi. I started my Choice at Atlantic United World College on tour in Wales, when the Trump administration was allowed by a federal court of appeals to restrict taxpayer dollars given to family planning facilities under Title X. I finished it at home in Nova Scotia with pro life friends, trying to find common ground. My Choice is an anthem supporting women and child bearing folks to assert our rights to reproductive freedom. Being a free person means having autonomy over our own bodies, and reproductive freedom means living in a world where children are chosen and wanted.

My Choice moves from the first person, “It’s my body/My voice/My future/My choice to the collective: "Our Bodies/Our Choice." We have to come together as recent protests in the US have demonstrated to say no to authorities who wish to control our bodies because of antiquated religion-based dogma, and stand up for justice until there is reproductive freedom for all.

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My Choice

Hearing wails
I can see the tipping of the scales
That old church burned down
And brought our bodies home
My body’s something you can’t own

It’s my body
My voice
My future
My choice

In the south
Standing at the river’s mouth
Fish are swimming
Safely to the sea
And a woman’s body is also free

My body
My voice
My future
My choice

We can be the change we want to see
We’re all human beings

My body
My voice
My future
My choice

Whose rights?
Can we honour all life?
We won’t be slaves to the state
Stand for freedom
It’s not too late

Our bodies
Our voice
Our future
Our choice

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released November 12, 2021
Copyright Erika Kulnys 2021
Workshopped with support from Jessica and Laura Uhlman

Voice and piano performed by Erika Kulnys
Recorded by Mark Thayer at Signature Sounds Studio
Art by John McLean

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Erika Kulnys Nova Scotia

"...ingenious intellect and activist zeal of Ani DiFranco with the poetic skepticism of Leonard Cohen, Kulnys is cementing her place in history...ballad-aesthetic of Tori Amos...craftsmanship vast as the Atlantic. Spin the cheekiness of Dolly Parton with overt sexuality of Kinnie Starr, and toe-tapping rhythms of Colleen Power to conjure up her multi-dimensional talents.” - Shannon Webb-Campbell ... more

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