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Mxmtoon on Rerecording Her Debut EP With Newfound Confidence in Queerness


This Pride Month, Mxmtoon is reflecting on revisiting her debut EP, ‘Plum Blossom,’ with a newfound confidence in her music and sexuality

Maia — whose online fan base follows her multiplatform talents across social media, gaming, podcasting and even graphic novels — self-released her early music from home, working with GarageBand to record and upload her songs to YouTube. Joelle Grace TaylorWhile many things — including a pandemic, a presidential election and six Met Galas — have occurred since the 2018 release of plum blossom, for Maia, one of the most transformative changes was her coming out as bisexual. Growing up in an Asian American family in the Bay Area of California, Maia shared that she struggled with shyness and that “queerness wasn’t necessarily at the forefront of the conversation.”

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