LOVING “Heartbeat,” @anitaaysola ’s new single. Let’s show her our support! 💕💕
***India-born, Atlanta-based singer-songwriter, teacher, and political activist Anita Aysola remembers the hopeless feeling of a sinking collective heart that day. It was on May 7, 2019, when Georgia’s Republican governor signed into law one of the nation’s most restrictive pieces of anti-abortion legislation to date, effectively banning abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, when doctors can detect the fetal heartbeat – a stage of embryonic development that often occurs before many women even realize they are pregnant. Like millions of others across the country determined to fight the impending war on women's rights, Anita had gotten involved as a citizen, made calls to her senators and representatives, written letters to the governor, voted consistently, protested, and marched against the awful things happening in the American political landscape the last few years. But now the state was actually restricting women’s autonomy over their own bodies. She felt stifled, angry, paralyzed.

For Aysola, music is catharsis. She thought about the cold irony of the right-wing pundits, dubbing such an oppressive law “the heartbeat bill” while ignoring the living, beating hearts of the women it disempowers. “What about us? What about women?” she thought, “can you hear our heartbeat?” That moment bursts into a powerfully defiant, jazz-infused anthem with the production of “Heartbeat,” her latest single and music video in collaboration with members from the women’s vocal social-action powerhouse Resistance Revival Chorus. "Heartbeat" confronts head-on a timely issue that faces American women under an increasingly hostile political regime.

A mother of two beautiful children with a loving marriage and a wonderful career, Aysola knows if motherhood can at times be tough for someone as lucky as her, then legislation such as the “heartbeat bill” can only further oppress less fortunate women. “I want women to feel empowered when they hear the song,” she says, “to remember their own strength and remember that we aren't helpless, we aren't powerless. We can make change.“
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