--- title: "After Splitting From Elon Musk, Grimes Says She’s Starting a “Lesbian Space Commune”" description: "\"I’ll be colonizing Europa separately from Elon for the lesbian space commune,\" Grimes told Page Six in an email after breaking up with Elon Musk." date: "2021-09-28" modified: "2021-09-28" authors: - name: "Victor Tangermann" job_title: "Senior Editor" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/victor" url: "https://futurism.com/splitting-elon-musk-grimes-lesbian-space-commune" categories: - "Elon Musk" - "Future Society" - "Off-World" - "Space" - "The Industrialists" tags: - "elon musk" - "grimes" - "SpaceX" --- # After Splitting From Elon Musk, Grimes Says She’s Starting a “Lesbian Space Commune” !["I’ll be colonizing Europa separately from Elon for the lesbian space commune," Grimes told Page Six in an email after breaking up with Elon Musk.]() *\Image: Getty Images/Futurism\* Unless you've been living under a rock — or a beautiful corner of the internet blissfully unaware of Elon Musk news — you probably know that musician Claire "Grimes" Boucher [broke up]() with her billionaire SpaceX CEO partner of three years recently. "We are semi-separated but still love each other, see each other frequently and are on great terms," Musk [told *Page Six*]() on Friday. Now, Grimes says she'll be exercising her newly found freedom in a big and characteristically hyperbolic way. "I’ll be colonizing \[one of Jupiter’s moons\] Europa separately from Elon for the lesbian space commune," she [told *Page Six*]() in yet another exclusive on Monday. Details about the lesbian space commune remain sparse, and it remains unclear whether Musk will be allowed to visit. We also don't know if she'll be taking her [child X Æ A-12]() along with her. But frankly, we're happy for her. Grimes may also be making a sly reference to a contract [NASA signed with SpaceX]() earlier this summer to help the agency investigate if the icy moon is capable of hosting life. But far more likely is that she's referring to her upcoming album, a ["space opera" about a lesbian AI being](). It's not the first time Grimes has spoken out about her wildly ambitious plans to venture into deep space. In a February 2020 [interview]() with British magazine *The Face,* she suggested that she'd "like to upload my consciousness" and have it "live in some kind of humanoid vessel that can speak and move freely, and then that body can go to Mars and other planets with my mind inside it." In March, she also wrote that "ready to die with the red dirt of mars beneath my feet" in an [Instagram caption]() of a picture of her at SpaceX's "Starbase" facilities in South Texas. Grimes, just like Musk, is very much ready to reach for the stars — whether together or separately. **READ MORE:** [Grimes jokes she’s starting a ‘lesbian space commune’ after Elon Musk split]() \[*Page Six*\] **More on the breakup:** *[Elon Musk and Grimes Just Broke Up After Dating Three Years]()* ## Author I've been at Futurism since 2017, where my role has evolved to encompass design, writing, and increasingly editing. I've always been fascinated by space exploration and advanced transportation, which I've leaned into by interviewing luminaries in those fields while closely following the dimensions of policy and regulation that allow next-generation projects to succeed -- or, sometimes, to fail. I'm also keenly interested in the effects of generative AI on society, policies, and democratic institutions, as well as clean energy, physics and biology, and the vagaries of tech leadership. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Jalopnik, Fox News, and the New York Post. I spent my childhood living in locations including Manila, the Philippines, and Geneva, Switzerland, attended McGill University, and now live in Toronto, Canada. Before Futurism I worked at AskMen and a small photography studio. In my free time, I'm an avid gardener, foodie, and craft beer lover, as well as a maker of artisanal hot pepper sauces. I have a magnificent dog named Freida. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()