LOVE Playlist

3/8/2018

To be honest, ya’ll, this playlist was supposed to be published with last month’s Love Issue. In the January weeks leading up to our publication deadline, I somewhat absentmindedly collected songs for this list while DJing my daily routines. And then the daily routines met realizations of anxiety and depression(s) and even just typing the song titles and artist names in a Google Doc was beyond my capacity.

I’m still navigating those layers (will I ever not be, really?) and forever grateful to my AFO team for supporting me in taking some time away from writing to get at least my eyes back above water.

And while I’ll still allow that the “February Love Issue’s Love Playlist” was a fail (because failing is good and necessary and human, right? As this Virgo, Virgo rising, Aquarius moon is trying to learn and accept….), that won’t stop me from publishing a March Issue Love Playlist.

If I learned anything from the last month’s AFO pieces, like “The Value of Platonic Love” and “Talk, Love, and Patience: Navigating Jealousy in Long-term Polyamory,” it’s that corporate Valentine’s Day’s prescriptions for love should not dictate when, how, and who we love.

So this Love Playlist is and should be year-round--for Self Love, Platonic Friend Love, Romantic Love, and everything between and beyond of the types of love we can currently name.

Listen, delete, add… and if you have ideas for playlist themes, let us know, or, better yet, submit a playlist of your own!

Listen to the playlist on Spotify here.

Tracklist:

1. Stand Still - Sabrina Claudio