Seven years ago, at an emergency rally organized in response to the Trump administration’s repealing of trans youth student guidelines and rights in public schools, I had the privilege of standing with my community at the top steps of SF’s City Hall advocating for a better further for trans youth and for the harm towards the trans community to stop. Despite grim circumstances, it was the most connected I felt to a community, a city, and a collective fight to demand justice for lives deemed disposable.
For the past year, I’ve been reckoning with the activist inside me, the part of me that became exhausted after years of working in the nonprofit industrial complex, the part of me that has witnessed the genocide of thousands of Palestinians and the Arab diaspora, and I’ve began to ask why I repressed that person. After Tuesday, I’ve been finding myself at a crisis. A crisis of reawakening that part of me vs a path a of self-fulfillment and what feels like meaningless work in the one of the most toxic industries on this planet, the music industry.
I’ve been navigating possibilities and dreams for how these parts of me can intersect supported by the skills I’m learning in grad school along with a number of loving individuals who I’ve met through it. I think a lot about how my rage and empathy for social equity and passion and ambition around music would create an impact towards a just society, no matter the size. And it’s been hard. It’s hard when you receive messages from industry professionals saying “don’t be political cause you won’t get hired” or when the rhetoric going around in a Zionist and patriarchal industry dismisses oppressed communities in favor of capitalistic interests. I trust that I’ll figure it out.
In the meantime I do have to say: YOUR impact and what you choose to do moving forward also means a lot. For starters, pick your battles wisely and stop infighting if that’s you. Educate through effective means like organizing and political education. And for those of you gaslighting us in fear for our collective future, I offer you hope that you will soon see the reality of harm and how in the end that harm is eventually perpetrated towards you.
Find the courage to use your art, your platform to raise social consciousness. Find the courage to speak up.
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@djsagainstapartheid
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🇵🇸 DJS AGAINST APARTHEID 🇵🇸
With over 500 DJs standing in solidarity with Palestine & their right to resist a brutal 75 year occupation, we are honored to witness the growth of the movement of DJs fighting for a free Palestine.
🎛️ We understand the radical history and legacy of dance music. Our scene was founded by queer, Black, and Brown people with the clear intention to uplift the marginalized. These spaces were explicitly rooted in love, liberation, and resistance. The dance music scene has always been and must continue to be centered around imagining and creating a safer, fairer, and freer world for all people.
✊ We commit to using our platforms, our art and our spaces as tools of liberation. We commit to fight alongside the Palestinian people in the struggle for sovereignty, dignity, and self-determination.
🖤 DJs, producers, collectives, promoters, parties, clubs, festivals, radio stations, and nightlife workers, join us in standing firmly on the right side of history. This must end. Free Palestine.
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First Coachella in 14 yeeears. This time sober and free.
Thanks to @mr.gweggers & @drain831
Reminder that it’s always 🖕🏼to DT/MAGA, MAHA, ICE, Zionists and all p€d0s. Free Palestine & the far east, land back to those whose land was stolen. Trans rights and joy always and forever 🖤
BOOKING DJ GIGS!! APRIL - JUNE
Ready to play your club gigs or vinyl bar functions 🪩🪩
DM or email me to book!
100% of April earnings will be donated to @pymsandiego
❤️🔥 LOVE HANGOVER CURE ❤️🔥
They say heartbreak is the best teacher. We say it’s the best reason to sweat it out on a Sunday night.
Bring your broken hearts, your “it’s complicated” situationships, your “we’re better as friends” texts. Bring your bruised egos and your brave faces. Let’s turn pain into percussion, loneliness into liberation.
Sunday, Feb 15th | Whistle Stop
Prescriptions filled by: 💊 LA FRIDA (@fridafeels ) - sonic therapy 💊 TERRA TONTITA (@terratontita ) - rhythm remedies
With your regular healers:
MISS LADY D & FILOSO
@lola_rey_@antithetic
9pm —
$5 at the door (cheaper than therapy)
No judgment. Just energy, bodies, and the beautiful mess of moving on.
🕯️ QUEER. PUNK. ACID. SWEAT.🕯️
4 years sober today!
This past year’s reflection has been a lot about loving authentically. How to love my authentic self, the authentic selves of others, how to love collaboratively without any masks and accepting the love of those who surround me in resistance and joy.
Let’s keep this going through this ugly world 💖
❤️🔥LOVE HANGOVER CURE❤️🔥
For hearts heavy with yesterday’s champagne... we offer tonight’s antidote. 🕯️💔➡️❤️🔥
A queer underground ritual. Dance to remember. Dance to forget. A canon for the romantic, the rebounding, and the resilient.
Sunday, Feb 15th | Whistle Stop
Sonic medicine from LA FRIDA @fridafeels & TERRA TONTITA @terratontita
With residents FILOSO & MISS LADY D
5 dlls cover
Your sanctuary awaits.
QUEER. PUNK. ACID. SWEAT.
Holy Bay Area 2016. To be 26 again, discovering an unapologetic and divine femininity amongst so many queers in a beautiful city. Strolling by the local medical marijuana dispensary to pick up after work, buying a bottle of cheap rose from the liquor store, spending an entire paycheck at crossroads and wasteland in one day, swiping endlessly on tinder matching with femmes and planning dates at the lex, bopping across the bay bridge to the most sick9 underground rave in Oakland 😌
Faves that went unposted (or maybe, idk) in 2025 ✨
Lots to be said about this past year, and even more to be said about what’s about to come 💖
Ultimately proud of my accomplishments and moments of growth 💖💖
