foremother

Uchis has a laundry list of foremothers for every album; her past muses have ranged from La Lupe to Nancy Sinatra.

"My hope for the future is that they never are afflicted by racism or sexism or bias and discrimination that those foremothers had to confront and conquer," she said.

Women going through menopause in 2024 have access to a slew of products to treat it, much of it bunk, that our foremothers didn’t.

“At a time when extremists seek to erase our history and roll back our progress, we should take a lesson from our foremothers and forefathers,” she said.

I was like, "This is the story of my foreparents, my queer foremothers."