Be Steadwell

[5] Steadwell sang at the 2017 Women's March on the National Mall behind Maxwell and Janelle Monáe in Toshi Reagon's Big Lovely Band.

It received the Howard University Paul Robeson Award (2015), Best Experimental Short at The Black Star Film Festival (2015), Audience Choice Award at the QWOCMAP Film Festival (2015), and was featured at the NYC Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

In 2018, she released a musical titled A Letter to My Ex which tackled themes of love, loss, and intimacy.

[7] She wrote a song called "Gay Sex" in response to the Charlottesville Unite the Right rally.

[7] Steadwell uses loop pedals to layer vocals and beatboxing live onstage, and sometimes plays guitar.