Name: Kesha Rose Sebert
Age: 29
Occupation: Singer, Songwriter
Reason I look up to her: Her talent and ability to write amazing pop songs, her bravery in standing up and against sexual violence.

With an IQ of 140+ Kesha is not only ridiculously creatively talented, but she is also incredibly intelligent. Defying the norm of pop star's bringing in professional songwriters to write their hits, Kesha has writing credits on every single one of her songs, bar the limited edition song "Old Flames Can't Hold a Candle to You", which was written by her mum instead. Having the ability to write incredible pop songs is not one to be sniffed at, and one I wish I had.


Balancing a career with battling an eating disorder, while also dealing with nasties such as Perez Hilton is no easy feat, and one she seeming succeeded in. Her positive force is felt throughout social media, with her Instagram being filled with 'Eff you's' to the people that have brought her down or tried to stifle her voice. She walked the fine line that some people do when discussing mental health or eating disorders, as has been noticed in recent years that some people tend to romanticize mental health or eating disorders, but she managed to bring attention to the issue without making it seem like a trend or something to 'try to have'.

Speaking out about her experience with an abusive person in her life publicly and not being afraid to face all the backlash that is inevitable when a women speaks out about rape or sexual assault is something so important that survivors need to hear. They need to see that it is not their fault and never was and never will be - Kesha is living proof of that.

SISTERS ARE DOIN' IT FOR THEMSELVES - Eurythmics

Apart from being an amazingly fun and catchy song, if you choose to, 'Love Myself' can represent a much more deep and significant issue. Female masturbation. Now, if you've made it this far into the post, well done! The words 'Female masturbation' are taboo, un-talked about and looked down upon, so it's understandable if you felt weird reading these words. Despite the awkwardness that comes with talking about this subject, it is such an important thing to discuss. Here's why.



While male self pleasure is widely accepted as something all boys will do, and are expected to do as soon as, or before, they reach puberty, female pleasure is shunned. The unanomous story I hear from my friends and pretty much every girl I've talked to about this, is that they felt like they were doing something wrong, dirty and in some cases, even a sin. This is part of a wider issue of men's pleasure coming first and women's coming second, or never at all.- the fact that 20% of women never have orgasms during intercourse, and about 80% fake orgasms to speed up men finishing because they are bored and/or fatigued. This also leads in to topics such as the use of women merely as sexual objects, and things used to sell stuff, but that's another post.

By releasing this song, whether she wrote it or not, she is joining a very, very small club of women who openly sing about female pleasure. Hailee Steinfeld has secrured herself a position in the growing group of women expressing themselves unabashedly and this is an incredibly powerful message to be sending, especially since she has such a wide reaching fan base, the majority of which is teenage girls.




With lyrics such as "Know how to satisfy / Keeping that tempo right without you" and "Got me speaking in tongues / The beautiful, it comes without you", this song is undoubtedly about masturbation, and I think that's great. Putting something that's normally taboo into the public eye (and the top ten!) is an incredible feat that is hopefully one more step on the road to female expression being as widely celebrated as male expression and sexuality.

Thanks Hailee.