“I got a question for you: are there any m————- out there in the audience? Is there anybody here who runs their own s—?”, asked Kesha during her set-opening performance of “Woman” at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium Wednesday night.

And with that fierce declaration of agency, the Nashville native set about making her hometown show one of the most positively uplifting, inclusive concert experiences available in 2017 – raging against the world’s unceasing tide of a——- and tenderly welcoming anyone who’s ever felt like they don’t belong.

Read more about Kesha’s show of inclusion, hope and self-reliance here.