Marilyn Roxie

Marilyn Roxie (b. December 13, 1989) is a San Francisco-based writer who explores genderqueer topics at Genderqueer Identities and music at A Future in Noise. Currently attending college to double-major in LGBT Studies and Library Technology and interning in social media and library work for the Center for Sex & Culture, Roxie frequently infuses the roles of information access, human rights, and technology inside and outside of their work and writing. Roxie aspires to a career in the realm of sexological research and libraries, while continuing to pursue music as a hobby as a synth musician and netlabel owner at Vulpiano Records.

Interning at the Center for Sex and Culture beginning in summer of 2011, here Roxie is honing library skills by working through the Center’s 7,000+ book collection, meanwhile updating a range of the Center’s social media from Facebook to FetLife. Roxie plans to attend a university to pursue human sexuality studies after getting their Associate of Arts degree in LGBT Studies and Library Technology. Roxie writes and compiles content for Genderqueer Identities. Roxie identifies as genderqueer and utilizes GQID as a platform for covering a wide range of issues concerning genderqueer people from history to education, to health and fashion. See also GQID: About Me for background on Roxie’s identity and interest in activism. Roxie created the first known genderqueer flag (first version in 2010, final revision in 2011) and was photographed for Elle Perez’s Outliers Project (2011).

Music:

Taking an avid interest in music at an early age and influenced by library music, krautrock, post-punk, minimal synth, and video game soundtracks, Roxie is a self-taught keyboardist. Learning favorite video game tunes by ear quickly led to original compositions on an ‘80s-era CASIO keyboard at a young age, finally graduating to a Korg Triton LE Workstation in 2005. While young Roxie was taken with Kraftwerk’s Computer World and the video game soundtracks of Nobuo Uematsu and Koji Kondo, embarking on an exploration of post-punk, krautrock, and library music, thanks in part to a world of music blogs, Last.fm, and a personal quest to complete 1,001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die as a teenager opened up new musical possibilities.

First Roxie compilation, entitled Selected Recordings: 2005 – 2007, was released digitally on Last.fm in March of 2008, following up with Dark Mist EP in May and Bits in June, a month before the launch of music blog A Future in Noise. I Dreamt of Sound, an experiment in dream textures, was released in August. 2009, a busy year in which Roxie was named a Status Magazine “New Kid on the Block“, saw the release of a compilation of previously unreleased material, Rarities and Demos, followed by Ermine EP in May. First album New Limerent Object was released on 6/6/2009 amidst teaching high school workshops in History of Rock Music and Beginning Piano. EP 1 – Earth and EP 2 – Water (both released August 2009) were EPs made via Internet collaborations with musicians from around the planet, themed around elements of nature. First effort at a commercial single was “Zug der Krautrock”  in September 2009, now available as a free release.  Roxie also appeared as part of the personnel of Pi.o.tr’s Alias Splinters Routine album. In autumn 2009, Roxie set up Vulpiano Records, an independent netlabel geared towards free, Creative Commons releases including artists from all over the world. In 2010, Roxie’s Manic Street Preachers and Horrors links directory VISIONBLURRED was cited in Martin Power’s Nailed to History: The Story of the Manic Street Preachers. As of 2012, new synth material is on hiatus but Roxie continues on with Vulpiano Records and plans to return to original compositions after college.