Happy Pride Month 2021, y’all! (Content Warning: There are very frank and honest discussions about substance abuse, domestic violence and sexual abuse during this episode). It’s been a spicy one already, so I felt the urge to get y’all the history, the legends and the stories along the riveting songs you deserve for the month…
Category: Pride Season
Pride & Allies – A Queer Mid Century Celebration Mix
I’m a firm believer in having to remember where you’ve been to see where you’re going. To root and meditate on our history is to build for a stronger future. As a society, the United States tends to make our collective memory disposable. This includes the evolution we’ve managed around sexuality in the last 50…
Pride, Portland & Problematics
I’ve had an increasingly wonky relationship with “Pride” Season the older I get. It’s gotten more complicated with the public facing weight of Vinyl DJing. There’s few instances in terms of intersectionality that someone Black, under 50, Queer identified actually spins 1960’s Soul Music. Over the last few years that’s lead to calls to dust…
Pulse: A Year Later
Let me tell you that I can’t stand text messages that ask how I’m doing among the horrors of our everyday existence. There’s nothing more surreal to wake up in the weird space between sleep and wake to a disaster. It makes one question if one is actually awake and alive. Since I have no…