• Woodcat Coffee Bar (map)
  • 1532 West Sunset Boulevard
  • Los Angeles, CA, 90026
  • United States


Laura Burhenn of The Mynabirds launched a visual art protest on January 18, 2017 -- a series of 30 original gouache + ink, signed + framed birds to raise money for RAINN (the Rape Abuse & Incest National Network), to protest Trump's inauguration and the "grab 'em by the pussy" rape culture he has carelessly normalized. Proceeds from sales will benefit RAINN -- buy one before they're gone! Or I'm happy to make you a special commissioned piece if you like! And if you're in Echo Park, head to Woodcat Coffee Bar where they'll be on display until February 11th (closing party that night!). Here's the whole backstory behind the project...
xx Laura.
Back in October 2016 I released a song on Saddle Creek Records, “Good Medicine,” which is about the weight we feel every morning, about the tears we shed in private, and the strength with which we *choose* to keep going, one foot in front of the other. I say choose, because it is a choice. I was reminded of that choice after the woman who was raped by Brock Turner shared the open letter of her experience and sang her truth and her song, despite what sentence the judge handed down, letting her rapist go free. She embodied Sartre: "Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you." She was the strength she wanted to see.


"Sing, little nightingale
Sing your song
Though the night
Is black and long
We'd waste away
Without your spark
Oh it helps to chase away
The dark
If anyone tries to tell you
It's just a song
You tell them
It's real good medicine
If anyone tries to tell you
It's just a song
You tell them
They should start listening"