(Kagome)x2 from Mz3 by Jess Bennett

The melody comes from a Japanese children's song called Kagome, Kagome. In the accompanying game, one child is chosen as the "oni", which is like a demon or an ogre. That child closes their eyes. The other children hold hands and walk in a circle around the child in the middle while singing the song. When the song ends, the oni has to guess the name of the child behind them.
Like many children's songs the origins are unknown and the lyrics could refer to something more insidious or tragic.

I tried to also fit in a voiceover of Marilyn Frye's essay "The Systemic Birdcage of Oppression"
(which you can read here! https://cpt.org/sites/default/files/2019-04/US%20-%20Bird%20Cage%20of%20Sexism.pdf), but I couldn't find a clip of the author reading the essay (and my attempts at weaving the line in weren't great)
Frye uses the analogy of a birdcage to explain how oppression works. In her essay she discusses sexism in particular but the theory holds up for other forms of oppression as well. With faces pressed up against the wires of a birdcage, she writes, it's hard for us [insert privileged group] to see why the bird doesn't just leave. When you take a step back, it's easier to see the interlocking barriers that form a systemic cage.

The sample at the end is from a Sesame Street album, "Sesame Street 2".

I write the songs I need to hear. Not all of them are good.

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