Photo by Mitch Boyer
Letter From the Editor
When you see, hear, or read about “women and sex” in the media, it’s usually exploitative and focused on our bodies for someone else’s pleasure. You don’t see accurate, unbiased, non-fetishised accounts of sex and love. In fact, you rarely see or read narratives of females as the authors of their own sexual journeys. More often, we are the subject of someone else’s account. We at Tom Tom decided to address that with this issue themed “Sex and Love” and tell our stories. Some people might ask: “What does drumming have to do with sex?” And for us it’s a no-brainer. Tom Tom has been and will continue to be a resource and media company that represents the female experience. We will continue talking about real life in an unfiltered way and discussing all things relating to our lives as musicians candidly. Musicians, like everyone else, have love and sex lives. For female musicians, there are specific conversations that haven’t been held enough. In these pages, we begin that dialogue and share those threads. To quote a good friend and a sick drummer Kiran Gandhi, “If we don’t reclaim the narrative of our own experiences, somebody else will write that narrative for us.” This is us, claiming our own narrative. Enjoy.
Love, sex, and drums,
Mindy Seegal Abovitz Monk Founder + Publisher
***WARNING: SOME ADULT CONTENT INSIDE***
