You Don’t Get to Assign Me is a sound piece rooted in the refusal to let other people define identity, worth, truth, or humanity. Emerging from the emotional world of Crown of Permission, this track speaks to the exhaustion of being labeled, dismissed, misunderstood, or reduced by systems, families, institutions, and people who never carried the full story.
 
The sound moves through restrained tension and quiet defiance, creating space for the listener to reconnect with themselves outside of projection and expectation. Rather than demanding empowerment, the piece allows room for complexity — anger, grief, exhaustion, clarity, and the steady recognition that survival does not erase personhood.
 
Created by Sound Alchemist Julie Jewels Smoot, You Don’t Get to Assign Me continues a trauma-informed approach to listening that centers choice, nervous system awareness, and emotional honesty. This is not about proving value to anyone. It is about reclaiming the right to exist without needing permission, explanation, or approval.
 
The track honors the moment when a person stops carrying identities that were forced onto them and begins listening for their own voice beneath the noise.
 
Available listening through Julie Jules Smoot Sound Alchemist