“Our movements need music. Movements have never won without music. Movements have never won without artists and songwriters and creators and I really believe that people fighting for justice take a lot of energy and hope and power from music. Blakely’s music is such an eloquent and beautiful cry for us all doing out part.” 

-Alec Connon (He/Him)

“Everybody who was part of her musical documentary got to do healing, got to process, got to unpack some of those emotions in a way that normally wouldn't have happened. I think that Blakely’s music is deeply rooted in raw emotion. It's pretty real and honest in how she processes and how she is processing. And it’s kind of something that happens when you listen to music like that, it encourages you to do that processing yourself or maybe it evokes catharsis.” 

-Aji Piper, 19 (He/Him)

“When Blakely was making her documentary music video, she worked with my son. And the way that she did it was so intentional and thoughtful, thinking about the process that the activists she was working with were going through and their emotions and what that would bring to them and with an intention to bring growth and healing to them as well as making her own process… I’ve cried many times listening to her songs, they’re moving.” 

-Helaina Piper (She/Her)

“The trauma Blakely deals with is something that touches every one of us deeply if we have or haven't experienced that type of trauma. Her music really helps to contextualize the reasons why I do what I do, the reasons why we do what we do.” 

-Ryan Flesch (He/Him)

“I remember being with my community listening to this really incredible music in this dark theater and this gorgeous persons on stage healing the minds and hearts of everybody in the room.” 

-Aliko Weste (He/Him)

“Her songs are like a current that pulls me in, wanting to hear more of them. She inspires me so much in how she processes her sadness and the world’s sadness. The music she catches comes straight from the heart and the love, pain and happiness that move within her songs are the music that my generation needs to hear.”

⁃Femi Magical R.B., 12 (She/They/He)