Olivia Rodrigo's Daisy Chain Fields is a festival-scale roar for abortion rights and women's health
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Set us as preferred Just after the U.S.Supreme Court overturned Roe vs.
Wade in 2022, ending the nationwide right to legal abortion, Olivia Rodrigo walked onstage at the Glastonbury festival in the United Kingdom, sad and furious but also galvanized.“I’m heartbroken over what happened in America yesterday,” Rodrigo said onstage then.
“I’m devastated and terrified that so many women and so many girls are going to die because of this.”Four years later, Rodrigo has a new festival of her own this weekend, Daisy Chain Fields in Irvine’s Great Park, that’s entirely in service to those causes of women’s rights and reproductive autonomy.“I remember being at Glastonbury that day with the most exciting opportunity to perform on that stage, but at the same time, being shaken to my core knowing that women’s rights were being stripped away,” Rodrigo told the Times via e-mail just before the festival.“I want people to walk away from here feeling hopeful and feeling like they can effect change.
That was the entire thesis of this festival.I do think we can.
We’ve seen it happen before, and we’re seeing some change now.”Daisy Chain Fields is an ambitious escalation of Rodrigo’s activism in this sphere, which has paralleled her chart-topping success after debuting as a teenager with her LP “Sour” in 2021.The festival — with similarly-aligned acts including Chappell Roan, Doechii, Bikini Kill, Katseye and others — will be a globally-prominent cultural event, underlining the urgency for reproductive and women’s rights work amid the current right-wing backlash.
It raises funds to benefit 10 like-minded advocacy groups, and intertwines her music career and women’s rights advocacy in ways few pop artists at her scale are attempting.“We are ecstatic to have Olivia supporting our work, not only fina...