I make it a very personal crusade to attempt to give people permission and safety to talk about where they’re at while also making it clear that I’m a safe space, but not every space is safe.”Ĭameron came out as queer almost two years ago during an Instagram Live. “And I think that the more that you believe you have to play a role for other people, or you cannot live as yourself or you have no outlet for the pain to find its way out, it never ends well. And I’m very much in the camp of…secrets will kill you. “My father took his own life, and so suicide has been a big part of my life for a long time. It’s been confusing and I’m glad to see that someone else is speaking about it publicly so that I can feel like I can access it more,'” Cameron says. “I just wanted to open up a dialogue about an ongoing conversation I’m having with myself in hopes that somebody would be like, ‘Oh, okay, because me, too. She wrote about struggling with depression and dysphoria. And I was starting to feel that familiar dark cloud thing where when it’s creeping back up and you’re like, ‘No, no, no, not right now, I need to work.’ I was like, ‘Mom, I actually think I really need you out here.’”Ĭameron opened up about her mental health issues in an emotional and very raw Instagram post in May. “My mom actually flew out because I struggle with depression like so many people do. “It was heavy, it was weighing heavy on me,” Cameron, who is currently working on finishing her first album, says of the abortion ban. The result is a video featuring a gender-swap story highlighting the fight for women’s rights and equality. Her label asked Cameron if she wanted to shoot a new “Breakfast” video to better express her feelings. I had no hope or faith in our government.” But when we were working on the edit, the news of Roe vs. “What basically had happened was I filmed another music video for ‘Breakfast’ first before I left for Vancouver ,” Cameron says. While Cameron’s music video for “Breakfast” has more than four million views on YouTube, it’s not the original vid intended for the single. We talked about why her record label agreed to film a second music video for “Breakfast,” going public about her mental health issues and her message to LGBTQ youth as anti-queer bills continue to find momentum in state legislatures. I caught up with Cameron over Zoom video from her part-time home in New York City.
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