Joy Oladokun’s Therapeutic Folk-Pop Searches for Hope. It’s Resonating.
nytimes.comNASHVILLE — Joy Oladokun was sitting in her backyard, stoned and scrolling Twitter when a Christian pastor appeared in her feed.
As the child of Nigerian immigrants who raised Oladokun and her sisters in the church, she’s no stranger to religious doctrine and, as a queer person, no stranger to feeling as if it’s being weaponized against her.
Still, she couldn’t look away. “Those guys always pop up and I’m like, ‘What are you doing here?’” Oladokun, 31, said on a January afternoon, seated at her dining room table wearing a Nirvana T-shirt, an electric mug and a weed vape within reach.
Then she let out a laugh — a distinct, cartoonlike thing perfect for defusing uncomfortable situations. “And they are always saying something stupid, because that’s an option to them.” Oladokun didn’t want to fight online, though — she’d done plenty of that.
