Confession: I’ve long been in a situationship with country music, and it’s…complicated. I’d like to be able to commit as a fan. But the longer I live as a Latine queer woman in a political climate that challenges my existence, the more I struggle to ignore the conservative views and values inextricably linked to the genre. Fundamentally created by Black and brown folks in the South, country music used to be rooted in raw storytelling and unfiltered emotion—but sometime around the Vietnam War, it pivoted toward supporting right-wing politics. And at a certain point in my life, it felt like something I could no longer support. That said, if there is anyone I can depend on to push for inclusivity in the historically traditionalist country music industry, it’s Kacey Musgraves . With her Grammy-winning 2018 album Golden Hour (in which she traded some of her kitschy lyricism for a pared-back approach), I was reminded of what it really meant for pedal steel guitar strings to pull at your heartstrings.…