![]() ![]() “As a Southerner, a survivor, a woman, it’s something that I wanted to do, a punk rock thing,” she said. So when her manager, Tara Perkins, suggested this self-defense seminar, she agreed. She channels them, her mother especially, when she plays Bets, and she wishes they had known how to protect themselves - emotionally, financially, physically. But she comes, she said, “from a long line of scrappy women who had a lot of sass and a lot of wit, and could talk back, but didn’t always fight back and also felt powerless.” Ditto, who advocates queer visibility and body positivity, wouldn’t seem to need help speaking up or pushing back. “I’m feeling self-defensive,” she said by way of greeting. ![]() ![]() Ditto had arrived half an hour earlier, an enthusiasm vortex, slipping off her gold sneakers as she signed a series of liability waivers. ![]()
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