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“Take Back Your Beaver” with this new music video

My name is Candace Roberts and I’m trying to own my pubes. In this era of hairlessness, I just released a new music video called “Take Back Your Beaver” on YouTube. You see, when I was a teenager my sister was horrified by my lack of shaving and made up a little rap for me. “My sister’s got a big brown beaver. She needs to learn to keep it cleaner!” Flash forward to Mexico City in my early 20s whereupon I was rejected on a date for having a beaver. What resulted was a very awkward conversation with my pants around my ankles.

And so it seems these fury creatures have become an endangered species. My very young 20 year old cousin has never actually seen or interacted with a beaver despite having had a handful of partners. To him, beavers are like Bigfoot! So I wrote a song about all this, urging folks of all stripes to take back their beavers! Now I’m not saying you have to grow a big ole beaver. No … I just wanna broaden the definition of what is deemed beautiful down there … and in general. Let’s just be in our bodies however we choose to be and want to be.

Take Back Your Beaver” has been a huge hit at my live cabaret shows and many of my fans come up afterwards to discuss the conflict they feel around the state of their pubes. “Do I get rid of them? And who am I doing this for in the first place?” I myself have vacillated from shame around my beaver to traitorous thoughts when I’ve shorn it off. So I suppose “Take Back Your Beaver” has been a bit cathartic for me. I’m just trying to befriend my little beaver and I hope others can do the same.

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Candace Roberts is a San Francisco based singer/songwriter, filmmaker and cabaret artist. In 2015 she released “Take Back Your Beaver”, a comic feminist short film about reclaiming pubic hair and our bodies. “Take Back Your Beaver” followed the success of 2014’s much-lauded and much-critiqued short film “Not My City Anymore”, about gentrification and the tech industry in San Francisco. In 2010 Candace released her album “Honeymoon for One”, in which she asks herself to marry herself, and she’s been playing to full houses ever since, most notably the Fillmore, Cafe du Nord, the Lost Church, and the Make-Out Room. She also rocks the house concert circuit and had a three year residency at Martuni’s Piano Bar. Candace’s cabaret shows, often deemed “brave”, are chock-full of original songs and American songbook covers and they deliver big on social commentary and confessional story-telling, covering wide-ranging topics such as: sex, self-worth, cellulite, pubic hair, consumerism, gentrification, immigration, racism and more. Candace’s truth-telling extends to her filmmaking, which has also developed a distinct visual style, drawing heavily on nostalgia, saturated color palettes, over-the-top production numbers and casts of thousands.

Singer/Songwriter, Filmmaker and Cabaret Artist

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