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TEGAN AND SARA

Tegan and Sara have always been deliberate in using their platform for social good. In 2012, the Canadian duo appeared on the cover of that year’s Protest Issue wielding a sign that said: “The rights of the minority should never be subject to the whim of the majority.” Sara Quin, who has been making music alongside her identical twin sister, Tegan Quin, for over two decades, fondly remembers how those words strongly resonated with her. “It was a quote that I had heard for the first-time during Canada’s marriage equality debates. Ultimately, the legislation that went through allowed all Canadians to

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