Laura Jane Grace Reconsiders Critical Views on Arcade Fire's "We Exist" Video
The great Laura Jane Grace/Arcade Fire feud of 2014 seems to have ended.
Last week, the Against Me! frontwoman blasted the Canadian rock band for their "We Exist" video, which features actor Andrew Garfield dressing up in drag and wrestling with identity issues. She tweeted that the band should've hired an actual "trans" actor instead of using "Spider-Man." Over the weekend, Arcade Fire responded via The Advocate, saying that a lot of love went into the video, but that they could see the sensitivity.
As Stereogum reports, she fired off another series of tweets criticizing the band's comments about her comments, but those have been deleted. At some point, she spoke with trans artist Our Lady J, who coached Garfield in the video and apparently changed Grace's thinking.
Just got done talking w/ @ourladyj about her involvement in the @arcadefire video. Her perspective really made me think about it differently
— Laura Jane Grace (@LauraJaneGrace) May 26, 2014
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