“What myths do we inherit that keep us away from ourselves?” asks STEFA*, the self-proclaimed genderless and genreless vocalist, composer, educator and multimedia performance artist.

Born and raised in Queens to Colombian immigrants, STEFA* takes on this question through their amalgamation of punk, experimental pop and classical maximalism to reconsider their own origin stories “because so many of those were lost along the way of colonization. Born With An Extra Rib was me creating a story of myself and of my own becoming.” Written over the course of nine years, stefa describes “all the versions of myself that I’ve been while writing all of these songs - I feel like a completely different person. There’s a lot of unlearning in this journey - still things that I’m trying to practice unlearning.”