To learn more about Dr. Cyn, check out this interview they did with Nashville Voyager: https://nashvillevoyager.com/interview/daily-inspiration-meet-cynthia-george
Check out this feature from the Wavy Glitter Member Spotlight!
Not Today Exploitation Music Video, Oct 10, 2024
in honor of World Mental Health Day & Simone Biles!!
Released on World Mental Health Day in honor of USA Olympic gymnast Simone Biles who inspired the song, Not Today Exploitation celebrates people who stand up for their mental health and seeks to strengthen those that need to say no for safety. Aligned with 2024’s WMHD theme “It is time to prioritize mental health in the workplace,” the song validates “the twisties” as a legitimate condition that humans must manage and draws parallels to Spoon Theory. Both are metaphors that serve to explain how people with mental health and/or chronic health issues may need to deviate from what is expected of them for safety.
Listen to Canary featured on Queenz of Noise on 106.7 Phoenix FM out of Bendigo, Australia!
Listen to Not Today Exploitation featured on Queenz of Noise on 106.7 Phoenix FM out of Bendigo, Australia!
Listen to Stupid or Cruel? and Devolution Revolution featured on Queenz of Noise on 106.7 Phoenix FM out of Bendigo, Australia!
Nondisparagement Music Video - September 4, 2024
Released on World Sexual Health Day to honor the #MeToo movement and all the people who have had to hide their truth in order to comply with legal directives to be silent about what happened to them. We really do need better data reflecting the true scope and impact of abuse and harassment. This song aligns with the WSHD theme for 2024 which is promoting “Positive Relationships.”
Dr. Cyn and the Graduates Rise’ new album
Canary
Available everywhere digital September 2, 2024.
Music videos will be released monthly until July 26, 2025.
Nine punk rock songs to help you cope with the horrors of submission to the seemingly inevitable systemic exploitation of human beings in art, commerce, education, finance, healthcare, labor, and sport, and then one spacey love song, there’s always hope you know…
Music, Lyrics, and Vocals by Dr. CynCorrigible
Guitar, Backing Vocals, Piano by Jerry Campbell
Bass by Bingham Barnes
Drums by d. Patrick Rodgers
Synthesizer and canary sounds* by G. Seth West for the tracks Baby General, In Love, and Canary
Recorded and Mixed by Jeremy Ferguson at Battletapes in Nashville, TN
Mastered by Patrick Damphier
Album artwork by Dr. CynCorrigible
Dr. Cyn as Canary and Dr. Cyn brandmark artwork by Marilu Herrera
*Using CanarySennheiserME66LME67R.wav by brfindla -- https://freesound.org/s/26006/ -- License: Creative Commons 0
Check out the full Press Release for Canary here: https://www.graduatesrise.com/press-kit-canary
Dr. Cyn’s single The Tennessee Three is On All Streaming Platforms!! March 20, 2024
Pay what you can via Bandcamp!
Lyrics & Vocals - Dr. CynCorrigible
Music & Recording - Benjamin Lowry (from Nashville’s Bang OK Bang)
Recorded at Helping Our Music Evolve (HOME) Studios, Nashville, TN
Album artwork by Dr. CynCorrigible
Visualizer Video by Dr. CynCorrigible made using Neural Frames
What if we all focused on Membership?? A Social Work Tutorial on Dr. Hans Falck’s Membership Perspective in the age of COVID, featuring Quarantine Not Quarantined by Graduate Rise
Single, Music Video, and Edutainment Module (2022, Jan 15)
Winner of an International Safety Media Award!!
Starring:
Dr. CynCorrigible as themselves
Shane Cunningham as Dr. Math (voice)
Malia Marshall as Dr, Math (puppetry)
The Grey A as himself
Writer, Producer, Assistant Director:
Dr. CynCorrigible
Cinematographer, Editor, Director: Alex Baldwin
Hair & Makeup: Emaline Briggs of BBC Nashville
Production Assistant: Malia Marshall
Featuring Darcy Katt, adopted via Project Felix. Support cat rescues via PayPal to ProjectFelixSpecialNeeds@gmail.com
Quarantine Not Quarantined by Graduates Rise
Now with Audio Descriptions! (2022, Jan 13)
Audio Descriptions Provided by Nefertiti Matos Olivares and Kensuke Nakamura of Social Audio Description.
Dr. CynCorrigible performs Nirvana’s Rape Me at Exit/In
Dr. CynCorrigible performs Nirvana's Rape Me at Exit/In in Nashville, Tennessee for the 'Nevermind' 30th Anniversary Tribute Show.
Guitar: William James (Sleeper Signal)
Drums: Joey Lauretta (Sleep Nation)
Bass: Trey Waters
Listen to Quarantine Not Quarantined featured on Cidade das Mulheres (City of Women) on Matula Web Radio of Brazil.
NAMI Tennessee’s Gabe Howard interviews Dr. Cyn about Graduates Rise’s recent release Quarantine Not Quarantined on the NAMI-TN Faccebook Live! Monday, March 1, 2021 at 1:45 pm.
Follow NAMI TN on facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/NAMI.Tennessee
Watch the interview here: https://www.facebook.com/NAMI.Tennessee/videos/232414561902558
Quarantine Not Quarantined! New Video (2021, Jan 15)
Access the Full Quarantine Not Quarantined by Graduates Rise Press Kit here.
Quarantine Not Quarantined by Graduates Rise performed by:
Dr. Cyncorrigble, Lyrics, Music, Vocals
The Grey A, Backing Vocals, Guitar, Synthesizer
Bingham Barnes, Bass
Rollum Haas, Drums
Recorded, Engineered, and Mastered by Jeremy Ferguson at Battletapes in Nashville, Tennessee
Album artwork by Marilu Herrera
Music Video Directed, Filmed, and Edited by Alex Baldwin
Co-Produced by Alex Baldwin and Dr. Cyncorrigible
Written by Dr. Cyncorrigible
Hair & Makeup by Emaline Briggs
Featuring Darcy Katt, adopted via Project Felix Support cat rescues via PayPal to ProjectFelixSpecialNeeds@gmail.com
Read Dr. CynCorrigible’s autobiographical book chapter! (2021)
Read Dr. CynCorrigible’s autobiographical book chapter First-Gens and Student Debt: Paying More While Getting Less along with other first-gen narratives from around the world in Brill’s Amplified Voices: Intersecting Identities, Volume II, Edited by Jane A. Van Galen and Jaye Sablan.
Single - The Ballad Of Pellagra - (2021, Mar 31)
The Ballad of Pellagra is a punk rock murder ballad that seeks to help listeners better understand the complexity of pellagra, a nutritional deficiency that killed over 100,000 people in the Southern USA during the late 1800's. Pellagra presents with diagnostic criteria that have come to be known as the "Four D's of Famine,” diarrhea, dermatitis, dementia, and death. The real world story of pellagra is taught in medical schools and schools of public health around the world. It is considered to be a landmark case in understanding economic epidemiology, which is the study of how disease progression in populations is connected to economic conditions. In the case of pellagra, the symptoms were originally blamed on the "filth" of sharecroppers and other poor southerners who were dying of the disease. This stigma persisted for years, and southerners continued to die. Many researchers helped to address the pellagra outbreak, with Dr. Joseph Goldberger and Dr. Edgar Sydenstricker being standout leaders in the movement to properly diagnose and treat the condition. They noticed that the condition was not transmitted to nurses and doctors, so they began to examine the diets of sharecroppers, which they found to be quite poor. They went on to identify that pellagra was specifically a deficiency in niacin and tryptophan that quickly resolved with an improved diet. Economic conditions found to have contributed to the outbreak of pellagra were ultimately systemic functions of poverty and oppression. Specifically, the cotton monoculture, which required sharecroppers to plant the cash crop of cotton rather than to grow vegetables, grain, or to raise cattle; the extremely limited access to healthy and affordable food options from local markets; and the cornmeal they used that had been milled in a way to make it shelf-stable for transport to the south on trains, but that also robbed it of all nutritional value. Researchers found that women suffered the most from pellagra, often because they provided the best food to their men and children. Ultimately, the case led to federal policies requiring processed foods to be enriched with essential nutrients. As this has played out across time, we once again find that poor southerners are suffering from population-level health epidemics fundamentally tied to their poor access to quality food. Referred to as food deserts, too many areas where southerners live in poverty provide very little access to healthy food options, while very often providing things to fill the belly with synthetic nutrients and other junk food products. Stigma persists and poor people continue to suffer and die.
Music, Lyrics, and vocals by Dr. CynCorrigible
Ganjo by Sarah Eitel
Upright bass by Michael Majett
Drums by Erik Dail
Piano by The Grey A
Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Mike Purcell at County Q Productions in Nashville, Tennessee.
Listen to Pussygrabber featured on Grrrl Power Hour with Elysa on Lucky Star Radio out of New York, NY.
Check out the Video for our single PUSSYGRABBER! (2017, Jan 9)
Graduates Rise's single Pussygrabber is a sex-positive song that presents consent culture the Riot Grrrl way. None shall comply with the Pussygrabber! All shall bow to the pussy power!
Lyrics, Music,& Vocals by Dr. CynCorrigible
Music, Drums, & Lead Guitar by Phantom Farmer
Rhythm Guitar by The Grey A
Bass by Brian Stone
Produced, Arranged, & Mixed by Phantom Farmer at The Stone Farm, Nashville, Tennessee
Video by Dr. CynCorrigible
Cover art by Morf
Listen to Whistleblower featured on Grrrl Power Hour with Elysa on Lucky Star Radio out of New York, NY.
Listen to Slave Body featured on Grrrl Power Hour with Elysa on Lucky Star Radio out of New York, NY.
Listen to Bully This featured on Grrrl Power Hour with Elysa on Lucky Star Radio out of New York, NY.
Watch the video for our track SLAVE BODY (2016, Sept 1)
from the international Riot Grrrl compilation to prevent sexual assault on college campuses
Severe Impact: The Brock Allen Turner Mixtape
with a special dedication by Dr. CynCorrigible
Slave Body by Graduates Rise
Dedication by Dr. CynCorrigible
for Riot Grill Productions'
Severe Impact: The Brock Allen Turner Mixtape
Listen to the entire mixtape here:
https://soundcloud.com/user-201306077
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Features 58 of the first poems Dr. Cyn ever wrote, created between 2005 and 2017, including sonnets, haikus, and free verse about love and politics and this crazy universe we are all living in.
Math is Hard! receives academic peer review from the Working Class Studies Association!!!
Check out this press from RVA Shows You Must See about Graduates Rise’ debut performance at Gallery 5 in Richmond, VA: https://rvamustseeshows.wordpress.com/2016/05/12/rva-shows-you-must-see-this-week-511-517/
Graduates Rise’s Debut Album - Math is Hard! (May 2016)
Math is Hard! lineup
Lyrics/Music/Vocals - Dr. CynCorrigible
Guitar/Backing Vocals - The Grey A
Bass - Jay Westermann (Rest In Peace)
Drums - Herschel Stratego
Math is Hard! Engineered and Produced by
Russell Lacy at Virginia Moonwalker, Richmond, Virginia
Cover art by Morf
Graduates Rise's debut album Math is Hard! confronts some of the issues facing higher education and seeks to shift the focus from blaming individuals to instead recognizing how systems perpetuate aggressions.
Specifically, the record tells the story of Dr. Cyncorrigible and her experiences as a low income student with disabilities in a PhD program.
Counter-hegemony deals directly with the dominance of positivism and how it has led to the financialization of education, further discussed in Student Accounting. Trash Data questions the effectiveness of laws around informed consent in today’s world of big data. Bully This tells the story of women and queers in science, attempting to work within a world dominated by white, male epistemologies. Slave Body serves as a thinking-man’s chain gang song, with perspectives coming from the id, ego, and super ego. Quit Lit sheds light on specifics of how people are degraded by education systems. Blame it on the Oligarchs draws attention to the role education systems play in maintaining wealth disparity in the world and Are You Blind? questions how this continues to happen. Whistleblower delivers a powerful message demanding change. I Can't Wait is a song about falling in love with Richmond, one of the USA's great punk rock cities.