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7 QUEER ARTISTS PERFECT FOR SUMMER

Ashnikko

“I’m crazy but you like that,” a lyric from Ashnikko’s hit song “Daisy,” has become a mantra of sorts for the pop songstress’s fans. Brash and unapologetic, Ashnikko has a fearless, take-no-prisoners attitude that makes her music bristle with the sinister. The out queer 25-year-old North Carolina native dons a giant blue wig and a larger-than-life persona akin to a drag queen to deliver tongue-in-cheek messages of feminism and sexual liberation on her debut album, . You have to possess a certain amount of bravado to sing lyrics like “Make

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