This is the second of three pages. The first page presents backstory and outlines accusations made since 2014 against the psych bedroom glam band Foxygen, specifically Sam France, by his ex-girlfriend Elizabeth le Fey, also a former touring member of the group. It does not involve Sean Lennon at all, but is necessary to understand the context from which le Fey recently solicited Lennon and their subsequent interactions, including his defense of what he says are her “slander and lies” against him. In the past two weeks the back and forth between le Fey and Lennon has spiraled across scads of tweets, Tumblr posts, Instagrams and Insta comments. For easier reading these have been collected below on this page. In response to this very public disagreement countless social media users have criticized, attacked, praised and debated Lennon. An overview of his responses is on page three.

Don’t have the time/ interest to read all three pages? Read a summary of the key points here. Follow updates at facebook/TheFutureHeart and twitter/TheFutureHeart .

After Elizabeth le Fey explained to Impose this past January her version of the events leading up to the restraining order protecting her ex-boyfriend/bandmate Sam France and his family from her, she used the resulting article to try to get potentially sympathetic influential figures to share her story. She tweeted it at Yoko Ono, Best Coast, Tobi Vail (Bikini Kill), activist Rose McGowan, Rookie Mag founder Tavi Gevinson and others but none of them responded. She tweeted it at digital artist Molly Soda who replied she would share it, but never did.

Last month when Desert Daze announced Foxygen had been added to their lineup, Elizabeth called for a protest of the festival. Later she announced on Facebook: “the day that Foxygen is planned to play at desert daze we are probably setting up a show in LA and all the money will go to an organization that helps and educates about abuse.” Again she solicited various influential tweeters to share her story (Best Coast, Carrie Brownstein, Amber Rose, Jezebel, Bitch, Bust, Spin, etc); again none of them responded.

She also solicited one of her most famous twitter followers: Sean Ono Lennon. Unlike the others he did respond, but not as Elizabeth wanted. Though Sean offered condolence (“I sincerely wish you a swift and permanent resolution to what is clearly a terrible situation“) he also defended “the people who put on Desert Daze.” “Please don’t undermine an entire group of people because of one or two assholes in a band,” Lennon wrote. “Desert Daze don’t know anything about you and Foxygen and frankly it’s unrealistic to expect any festival to be judge and jury in regard to the personal dysfunctions and histories of participating artists.” Below see Sean’s original message from August 27th, top left, and the September 6th exchange between Globelamp and Sean that preceded her public outrage the following day in the other three screen shots (the top DM screen shots were tweeted by Sean in response to the bottom two, from Lizzie):

Sean sent these comments in private, but taking offense to his reply, Elizabeth tweeted parts of the messages and publicly accused him of “private messaging me to shut up about the abuse I’ve been through because his friend is running Desert Daze” on September 7th. Lennon replied, “This is slander. I never told you to shut up about abuse.” For the two weeks since they’ve gone back and forth on social media with various of their followers also weighing in and Sean in particular responding to many of his detractors. In doing so Sean has sent several controversial tweets, leading to him being further criticized, attacked, praised and debated (click to page three for more on that). Meanwhile, various websites reported Lizzie’s side of the story. In Nylon Mag’s case their site first published, then took down an article/interview with Elizabeth, “On Sean Lennon, Violence Against Women, And The Power Of Protest.”

“How strange that this article talking about the right to protest, desert daze, foxygen, and sean lennon got deleted,” Globelamp posted on Facebook. “They were probably pressured by sean lennon or foxygen,” she presumed on twitter. “Crazy how by taking this article down they are showcasing exactly what keeps happening to me – trying to silence. At this point it has surpassed my individual story & says something about freedom of speech and who rules the media.”

On Tumblr she repeated, “This is bullshit and a perfect example in a continuation of people trying to silence me. Please spread this story because it isn’t cool at all that publications will take your interview down just because it exposes sexist guys. Please spread this. Tumblr is the only place where I am not silenced.”

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— Globelamp (@globelamp) September 17, 2016

Subsequently Lizzie posted screen shots of the entire article on her Tumblr, offered to mail printouts of it on her facebook and shared a change.org petition demanding Nylon put the “story back online!” Nylon has not stated why the article was removed or if Foxygen or Lennon had contacted them. It’s unsubstantiated claims were reason enough for its removal, even if there was no outside pressure to do so. The article said “Lennon retaliated, going on to defend his right to tell her how she should speak about her experience for the next several days,” a claim the differs from Sean’s account of the situation. “I’m not fighting I am simply defending against slander and lies,” he’s tweeted. “I never spoke out! I responded to slander and lies!” “I’m defending myself against slander and lies. Anyone should do the same.” “I just will not take slander sitting down. Misogyny is a disgusting accusation I refuse to accept.” Beyond defending himself, he’s said he is also speaking on behalf of Desert Daze. “I refuse to stand by as she slanders innocents: Desert Daze festival,” Sean tweeted.

Just a woman trying to be heard in a male dominated industry, please sign the petition in my bio. All of our voices add up.

A post shared by Globelamp (@globelamp) on Sep 18, 2016 at 10:51am PDT

Chan, please share this! https://t.co/0plcxHEJGW

— Globelamp (@globelamp) September 18, 2016

signed it

— Laura Jane Grace (@LauraJaneGrace) September 18, 2016

Nylon’s article also referred to Lizzie as “a victim of domestic abuse” without a source for that claim or support of the characterization, and alleged “band member and ex-boyfriend, Sam France, hit her [Lizzie] during an argument, knocking out several of her teeth,” an accusation that’s not even completely consistent with le Fey’s own accounts. She recently summarized the situation on twitter, saying “at first I did break my teeth in a shopping cart. thats Y they were messed up & when I got hit in the face they broke again.” “Basically they were chipped, I had caps put on. then after getting hit in the face my caps came out and I had to get implants.” She has previously alleged “my ex boyfriend he back handed me in the face and shortly after that one of my front caps fell out” and clarified that the cap(s) “didn’t fall out right then but it moved them (bc I had caps instead of real teeth) so my mouth was/is a sensitive area.”

Both before and after alleging Sam hit her, Lizzie repeatedly posted about her teeth on the internet, including x-rays of her mouth and pictures of her missing teeth. In July 2013 she explained “2 years ago I broke my front teeth” “I was getting pushed in a shopping cart, it flipped over, and I fell face first onto the concrete.” “i had to get 2 root canals.then decided to keep my jagged broken teeth. People liked them alot.” “But then they broke more and they were so sharp they would cut my bottom lip so I had to get fake teeth and now my fake teeth are fucked.” Two weeks later she told the same story on Tumblr, with a few more details:

“So today I was eating a banana and my front left crown fell out. The whole tooth is gone, there is nothing left. A gap. The remaining tooth was stuck in the crown I guess. I am going to the dentist Monday. It kinda feels weird and I started crying when it fell out, not because it hurt, but because it was so shocking and freaky to see my fucking tooth fall out. I am pissed off. I just got these crowns in 2 years ago, if even that.” (July 20, 2013)

“a few years ago some fool was pushing me in a shopping cart. he started pushing it really fast and I kept yelling out STOP but he didn’t. the next thing I knew the cart flipped over and I fell flat on my face onto the concrete. I thought all of my teeth had fallen out. thankfully only my front teeth were chipped. I left them broken for a year and then had them replaced with veneers. those have been in for about a year and a half and then recently they had moved because of some unknown reason ( I think eating an apple) so I flew back to my home in southern california. while down here my left veneer fell out while eating a banana. so now I have to get implants I think :/.” (July 26, 2013)

Later that summer she began a gofundme campaign to pay for dental work, offering perks like her Globelamp EP and a song personally written to order “about whatever you want.” In late August she tweeted that she would write a song with Sam for a diamond level backer as a reward for his “donation for my teeth.” She needed “4 wisdom teeth taken out and my front crowns taken out and replaced with implants.” Her campaign pitch began, “A year and a half ago I had porcelain crowns put on broken front teeth. Unfortunately after going on an intensive tour I noticed that they had shifted and became crooked. It was bothering me a lot so I flew from Olympia, Washington to Orange County, California to have them checked out by the surgeon who had done the surgery. I had trauma to my mouth after I toured with Foxygen. While I was visiting one literally fell out into a banana. I had to have surgery to have the other crown removed. I talked to my dentist and asked him if I could have the money back from the surgery and he gave me half the amount. I now have been wearing a flipper for the last 2 months and am am toothless with out it.” As stated on page 1 of this article, Lizzie says she broke up with Sam in the months that followed the launch of her gofundme campaign and a 32-page, five year restraining order was issued against her in January 2014.

The back and forth between Globelamp and Lennon dwindled in the past few days, though not before Globelamp accused Lennon of a transphobic statement. “why do you think sean ono lennon thinks getting gender reassignment surgery would make him a woman??? do you think that sean lennon realizes this is transphobic??” she tweeted at Against Me in reference to Sean having said that he has not experienced life as a woman and “I ain’t gettin reassignment surgery just to walk in a woman’s shoes.” Lizzie also took to criticizing Paige Stark of the band Tashaki Miyaki, who she toured with this summer, and Joel Jerome of the Psychedelic Thriftstore record label (which issued the first pressing of Globelamp’s The Orange Glow). In all there’s been untold tweets, Instagrams, Insta comments and Tumblr posts slinging shots between Lizzie and the others. For easier reading these are collected below:

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