![]() ![]() SD: When I think of Ke$ha, I think of a fun, lighthearted party tone, but not all of the pieces are like that. ![]() ![]() LR: I started them last December and finished them all over Labor Day weekend. SD: How long did it take for you to amass all of the stories? She’s known for partying and binge drinking, but she’s also an advocate for individualism. His real name is Boots, but calls him Santa and it’s his job to make sure she and her audience are totally covered in glitter. She literally has a bathtub full of glitter and has a full-time glitter assistant named Santa. Ke$ha, as I’ve learned, is very smart and writes her own music she used to sit in college lectures just for fun. This gave me an opportunity to own that shit. I wasn’t just afraid of the word bitch, I was afraid of the word sexy, the word woman, in myself and applying them to other women. When I first starting writing these I was very threatened by other women and insecure in my own womanhood. In some respects, very much the opposite of me. She’s this chaotic and intelligent mess she’s totally unrepentant and kind of carnivorous and uncompromising. I actually like her music! She kind of symbolizes and encapsulates everything that terrifies me about womanhood. LR: It’s funny, people have been asking me, “Why not Madonna? Why not someone more famous?” First, I had been coming to terms with the fact that I was a Ke$ha fan for quite some time at that point. SD: Who is Ke$ha, the real person, to you? But, lo and behold, I guess I had it in me. Then the stories picked up speed, and Matt and I were talking one night and asked, “Can you do 31 of these?” And I said yes, but inside I was thinking, No. For the reading I wrote five stories, but then realized it would be awkward to get up there and say, “Here’s a story for this specific woman who none of you know.” Ke$ha’s a bad bitch, so I substituted her name in and that gave me a freedom, which I didn’t anticipate, to address all sorts of issues within myself and to address any woman openly. I had a lot of discomfort with the word bitch, so I was trying to get myself acclimated to it and figure out who are women that I admire. Laura Relyea: Jayne invited me to be a part of the “Bad Bitches” reading. Scott Daughtridge: How did the project start? Relyea was kind enough to answer some questions about her new book. ![]()
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