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Speaker 1: Radio Radio Radio Commies a Myth and Bullshit, a radiophonic

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Speaker 1: novella Local Radio hosted by Malamuno. Hello, Hello, Hello, Welcome

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Speaker 1: back to local Radio. Welcome back, Welcome back. This is

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Speaker 1: and this is the fem Welcome to Season three of

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Speaker 1: Local Radio. Because fem revenge has never sounded so sweet.

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Speaker 1: Look Radio is a radio phonic novella archiving the brilliance

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Speaker 1: and legacies of women and fems of color. And we

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Speaker 1: are last Mommies of Myth and Bullshit, last locas of

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Speaker 1: local Radio, radiophonic novella, which is just a really extra

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Speaker 1: way of saying a podcast surprise. We dropped a new project,

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Speaker 1: Yes we did, Loki as Anonymous. It has officially been

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Speaker 1: introduced to the world. We're so excited um for all

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Speaker 1: of you to enter the world of the Patre Apocalypse

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Speaker 1: and um Lokith dos Anonymous and learn all about this

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Speaker 1: new universe that we're creating. Um. So, we dropped a

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Speaker 1: trailer on our Instagram and our Twitter on Friday, November one,

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Speaker 1: and we want to talk to you all about what

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Speaker 1: looks Anonymous is um our vision and our November sixteenth

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Speaker 1: look at That a live a podcast party. Yeah, So

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Speaker 1: this has been in the works for a little over

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Speaker 1: a year now. We started talking about this back in

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Speaker 1: and then started filming in April of so it has

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Speaker 1: just been an incredible journey to launch this project, to

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Speaker 1: really get it started. So, like Mala said, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: walk you through the vision and talk about our look

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Speaker 1: at Our Live a podcast party. So let's get into

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Speaker 1: the Patre apocalypse. Let's do it. So on November sixteen,

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Speaker 1: we will be having our third I can't believe, our

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Speaker 1: third installment of Look at Thought Alive a podcast party. UM.

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Speaker 1: It's part three year look Adversary to celebrate the fact

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Speaker 1: that we've been podcasting now for three years, which is wild.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be at the Paramount on Caesar Chavez

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Speaker 1: and Boil Heights, UM. And the second part of our

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Speaker 1: Look at That Alive a Podcast Party is going to

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Speaker 1: be our looks Anonymous Project activation. So we're inviting all

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Speaker 1: of you UM to hit up event bright buy your

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Speaker 1: tickets for Look at That Alva podcast Party. So we'll

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Speaker 1: see you at the Paramount on November sixteenth. And this

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Speaker 1: is gonna be a really fun look at That Alive,

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Speaker 1: a little bit different than past um look at that

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Speaker 1: a live events that we've done because we're introducing like

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Speaker 1: look at our Radio. We like to think of ourselves

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Speaker 1: basically as a production house um, not only using podcasts,

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Speaker 1: but parties and everything else. So this is our entryway

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Speaker 1: into creating works of fiction. We're activating Looky That's Anonymous,

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Speaker 1: and we're just really excited to tell you more about

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Speaker 1: the vision and the project. So the setting of Lucky

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Speaker 1: That's Anonymous is the Patriot Apocalypse, which is a near

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Speaker 1: future gender tech dystopia where we are leading a fem

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Speaker 1: resistance and revolution against the patriarchy. Uh. The idea is like,

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Speaker 1: if Malinosa existed in another dimension, what would we be doing? Right?

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Speaker 1: Would we still be podcasting? Like what kind of circumstances

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Speaker 1: the path that it's on the right now now And

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Speaker 1: the answer is yes, we would still be podcasting, but

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Speaker 1: it would look different right and we would be we

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Speaker 1: would have an underground pirate radio, which is what we

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Speaker 1: radio stay Asian called Radio Loca Absolutely, and we continue

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Speaker 1: with this theme of incorporating fem technology and our resistance

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Speaker 1: and in the world of Loki Thos Anonymous and the

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Speaker 1: a nail salon called the Comre Nail Salon uh, and

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Speaker 1: the patriarchy. This is part film project with what we

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Speaker 1: Michelle really just played a humongous role. They're already our

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Speaker 1: Um the film. Yeah, and then as far as talent,

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Speaker 1: your Yeah, they really are real ones. They hold it

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Speaker 1: was all of our close friends, our families that are

426
00:25:58,040 --> 00:26:02,160
Speaker 1: close friends but don't write little our movements started growing

427
00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:06,560
Speaker 1: and before you knew it, you know, our community really

428
00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:11,040
Speaker 1: was just so grateful to have a space where they

429
00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:14,440
Speaker 1: can come and dance and be their most authentic selves,

430
00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:17,119
Speaker 1: where they weren't going to get judged for what they

431
00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:18,720
Speaker 1: were going to be wearing, how they were going to

432
00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:22,080
Speaker 1: be dancing right. Group of women would come and just

433
00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:25,439
Speaker 1: like feel completely safe and just you know, um happy

434
00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:29,240
Speaker 1: to be in a space where you know, you saw

435
00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:33,600
Speaker 1: representation not only behind the DJ booth, but you know

436
00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:36,240
Speaker 1: from the people who charge, to the people who are

437
00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:39,240
Speaker 1: taking the pictures to the people who are just m

438
00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:42,280
Speaker 1: seeing right. It's uh, it's a true representation of what

439
00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:46,200
Speaker 1: our communities are about. Um. And this past Friday it

440
00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:48,160
Speaker 1: was just a testament of all of that. In these

441
00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:51,919
Speaker 1: two years, we've grown from you know, fifty people to

442
00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:56,080
Speaker 1: now selling out venues that are one thousand to one thousand,

443
00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:59,119
Speaker 1: five hundred deep. So you know that that's just a

444
00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:06,080
Speaker 1: testament who gratulation. Thank you. It was amazing, So thank you.

445
00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:08,800
Speaker 1: Um so yeah, so we just celebrated our to your

446
00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:12,080
Speaker 1: anniversary on Friday. It was our biggest venue yet, the

447
00:27:12,119 --> 00:27:15,840
Speaker 1: Globe Theater, Historic Globe Theater in downtown l A. And

448
00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:19,720
Speaker 1: it was definitely magical, Like, it was very emotional, It

449
00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:23,920
Speaker 1: was very memorable the whole The anxiety, the stress, lack

450
00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:27,160
Speaker 1: of sleep leading up to the event was definitely real.

451
00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:31,280
Speaker 1: So I'm still like processing that and recovering from that.

452
00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:35,040
Speaker 1: But it was a beautiful site to see the Globe

453
00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:38,800
Speaker 1: all packed and everyone having a good time and people,

454
00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:41,120
Speaker 1: you know, coming up to us telling us that they

455
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:45,120
Speaker 1: had an amazing time at Coton. So our journey has

456
00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:49,240
Speaker 1: been has been, has been real, and it's has definitely

457
00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:52,760
Speaker 1: grown and we're really happy for that. And I also

458
00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:55,320
Speaker 1: want to add that the Globe Theater, we were their

459
00:27:55,400 --> 00:28:00,080
Speaker 1: first Latin Gumbia centric party that they've ever hosted it

460
00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:04,400
Speaker 1: in all of their years in downtown Los Angeles. So

461
00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:07,800
Speaker 1: you know, that's just a testament to our culture, to

462
00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:11,160
Speaker 1: our people, and how far we can come if we

463
00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:15,639
Speaker 1: collectively work towards something that is true to our roots

464
00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:19,080
Speaker 1: and our values. So yeah, amazing, So can you all

465
00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:21,760
Speaker 1: take us back? You talked about the very first Gumaton

466
00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:24,520
Speaker 1: right being in Boil Heights and then moving to this

467
00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:28,440
Speaker 1: very big venue in downtown l A. So, right before

468
00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:34,680
Speaker 1: the inception the creation of collective, what was the inspiration,

469
00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:37,359
Speaker 1: What was the moment that you were like, Okay, we

470
00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:39,200
Speaker 1: need to do something. We need to do this really

471
00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:44,720
Speaker 1: big collective in this party, this movement, well, um a

472
00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:50,160
Speaker 1: huge catalyst to the creation of was essentially the president

473
00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:54,920
Speaker 1: that we have now becoming president. Um. We and this

474
00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:57,320
Speaker 1: is a story that I love hearing to say, you know,

475
00:28:57,400 --> 00:28:59,959
Speaker 1: like talk about it. But we essentially a bunch of

476
00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:03,760
Speaker 1: us and documented folks. UM, we gathered at this bart

477
00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:06,760
Speaker 1: in Lincoln Heights. Elect I don't know if anyone knows

478
00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:13,800
Speaker 1: about it, but nachos, tacos, I'm hungry, you know what

479
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:17,840
Speaker 1: to wear. We're sponsored, but we're not. We just um,

480
00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:20,680
Speaker 1: So a bunch of us gathered there, a bunch of

481
00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:24,240
Speaker 1: us and documented folks, and we basically saw the election

482
00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:28,760
Speaker 1: happening live. And once we realized that this spool was

483
00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:32,120
Speaker 1: going to be president. UM, it was just a very

484
00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:37,400
Speaker 1: heavy moment. UM. But also many of us are folks

485
00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:40,760
Speaker 1: that have been involved within documented or immigrant rights movement,

486
00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:43,320
Speaker 1: and so we knew that things were going to get

487
00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:47,320
Speaker 1: even worse, right, and we know the emotional toll that

488
00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:51,320
Speaker 1: UM fighting for immigrant rights and the mental health issues

489
00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:53,960
Speaker 1: that come up with that. We're gonna get even Moorse

490
00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:58,280
Speaker 1: since so I think, yeah, that was a huge catalyst

491
00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:00,760
Speaker 1: for the creation of comte Be because we wanted to

492
00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:04,960
Speaker 1: create a space where it was foreign documented folks to

493
00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:09,360
Speaker 1: come and you know, release their stress, you know, living,

494
00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:13,000
Speaker 1: dance and joy and just even for a little bit,

495
00:30:13,040 --> 00:30:16,280
Speaker 1: forget about the issues going on in the world, or

496
00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:18,840
Speaker 1: at least share space with people that are going in

497
00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:21,880
Speaker 1: the same going through the same struggle. So I would

498
00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:27,400
Speaker 1: say that was a huge catalyst for coon And I'm

499
00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:30,120
Speaker 1: wondering too how you all found each other and for

500
00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:33,560
Speaker 1: those in the audience that are new to the Kumaton collective,

501
00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:37,880
Speaker 1: could you describe who's in the collective, what makes up

502
00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:39,600
Speaker 1: who makes up the collective, and how did you all

503
00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:42,920
Speaker 1: come to find each other and work together. So, as

504
00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:46,640
Speaker 1: Lawrence was mentioning, um, we all do come from an

505
00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:51,480
Speaker 1: organizing background. That means that we are the rat is

506
00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:56,240
Speaker 1: crazy that are taking up you know in politicians office,

507
00:30:56,480 --> 00:31:00,880
Speaker 1: blocking the streets, you know, um to stop someone deportation

508
00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:05,120
Speaker 1: or you know, trying to talk to workers that are

509
00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:08,360
Speaker 1: with that are being exploited. Right, So we do come

510
00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:11,920
Speaker 1: from an organizing background, whether it's immigrant rights, labor rights,

511
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:15,800
Speaker 1: or just community organizing through and through UM. That's how

512
00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:18,640
Speaker 1: Norms and I actually met through an internship with the

513
00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:21,560
Speaker 1: UMF l c i O, which is one of the

514
00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:27,080
Speaker 1: largest UM labor organizations in in the nation, and that's

515
00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:30,400
Speaker 1: how we kind of you know that, that's how our

516
00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:33,320
Speaker 1: first interactions were. It was through workers rights, but then

517
00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:37,680
Speaker 1: we solidified our friendship through music. We were like, yeah, dude,

518
00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:40,600
Speaker 1: I mean, yes, we love hip hop obviously, we love

519
00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:45,000
Speaker 1: like oldies. We love you know, ratchet shipped to the

520
00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:47,240
Speaker 1: Beatles all of that. I'm not saying the Beatles are ratchet,

521
00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:50,080
Speaker 1: but you know what I mean. But then we're like,

522
00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:55,200
Speaker 1: are are kind of where our friendship solidified. We both

523
00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:58,480
Speaker 1: had such a love for Cumbia, So Norms of swammahaka

524
00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:02,360
Speaker 1: UM from getrid or right. So these are two UM

525
00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:06,600
Speaker 1: states in Mexico that are known for like the cultura,

526
00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:10,640
Speaker 1: the music, the food, everything, right, And that's how we

527
00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:15,080
Speaker 1: kind of became to just move on this now movement

528
00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:17,840
Speaker 1: right to create something that it was going to be

529
00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:21,040
Speaker 1: representative of our roots as as Norms mentioned right, like

530
00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:25,120
Speaker 1: we're both undocumented UM so we knew that, you know,

531
00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:28,840
Speaker 1: we needed to do something not only that was gonna

532
00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:32,680
Speaker 1: focus on our communities as like you know, Mexicanas, but

533
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:35,840
Speaker 1: also undocumented Mexicanas, and whatever project was going to come

534
00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:40,040
Speaker 1: after that also had to involve other undocumented artists. So

535
00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:43,640
Speaker 1: Norms ended up being well, Norms ended up being um,

536
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:47,239
Speaker 1: like the production manager of Comertone. Um I ended up

537
00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:50,360
Speaker 1: being uh, the DJ and like you know, the person

538
00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:55,080
Speaker 1: that kind of does like the liaison with like artists

539
00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:58,960
Speaker 1: and you know, just community um folks. Then we brought

540
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:03,520
Speaker 1: on DJ Funky Anamelo who is another badass, amazing DJ

541
00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:07,640
Speaker 1: um and Paolo who is a photographer who has been

542
00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:10,800
Speaker 1: in the l a you know, nightlife for about a

543
00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:14,400
Speaker 1: good ten years now. UM and Julio as well. We

544
00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:21,480
Speaker 1: bought him on after as our flyer maker slash workers

545
00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:25,680
Speaker 1: slash like you'd have to be Hulo. He's he's a

546
00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:29,640
Speaker 1: character all of all on his own stories, follow our

547
00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:33,320
Speaker 1: stories to know our team. But all of our folks

548
00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:37,720
Speaker 1: are folks within the undocumented community who are making waves,

549
00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:41,000
Speaker 1: who are shifting culture, who are being bold enough to

550
00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:46,560
Speaker 1: you know, just continue to create our even with all

551
00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:50,520
Speaker 1: odd stacks against them. You know, and for us that's

552
00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:56,040
Speaker 1: super important from you know, our production to everything that

553
00:33:56,080 --> 00:33:59,280
Speaker 1: we do right to center our communities because a lot

554
00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:03,640
Speaker 1: of the time people will forget to really invest or

555
00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:08,000
Speaker 1: just look within their own circle of amazing talent, right,

556
00:34:08,200 --> 00:34:10,000
Speaker 1: But we acknowledge that and we're like, why are we

557
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:13,279
Speaker 1: going to try and go get X promoter or where

558
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:15,920
Speaker 1: are we going to try and go get an established

559
00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:19,680
Speaker 1: CDJ or an established photographer when the talent is right

560
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:23,239
Speaker 1: within our community. So that's where we started, um, And

561
00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:28,120
Speaker 1: that's how m you know, our solid, badass, little immigrant

562
00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:36,520
Speaker 1: that could team came about and we be noised for that. Yeah,

563
00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:40,719
Speaker 1: I have a follow up question, do I okay? Thank

564
00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:46,080
Speaker 1: you to you? Um? Okay, So I love the connection

565
00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:51,759
Speaker 1: organizing for immigrant rights to party planning, which is its

566
00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:55,120
Speaker 1: own type of organizing. Can you talk about partying as

567
00:34:55,160 --> 00:35:03,560
Speaker 1: political and why? Well? Okay, so a loaded question, but essentially,

568
00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:08,160
Speaker 1: I mean Katon is a space that we created for

569
00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:10,920
Speaker 1: folks to come in and be themselves. Right, It's a

570
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:14,520
Speaker 1: space where all people of different shapes and sizes to

571
00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:17,239
Speaker 1: come and be themselves, especially as a you know, as

572
00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:20,640
Speaker 1: a fat woman of color. Like clubs were never really

573
00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:24,640
Speaker 1: welcoming to me, and so I wanted Komaton to be

574
00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:27,759
Speaker 1: that home for me and for other people, but just

575
00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:31,560
Speaker 1: in general, like kat is a space for like I said,

576
00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:34,920
Speaker 1: undocumented folks to come in and know that this is

577
00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:38,000
Speaker 1: their space and this is like we make the rules

578
00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:41,240
Speaker 1: there and you do what you want to do because

579
00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:44,160
Speaker 1: this is this is your home, this is your space. Um.

580
00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:49,080
Speaker 1: But yeah, we're aside from that, Komyaton is also our

581
00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:52,320
Speaker 1: our our goal is to use skat. Yes, come in

582
00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:55,200
Speaker 1: party with us because you know we're we're going through

583
00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:57,759
Speaker 1: the same struggle. But we're also going to use Komiyaton

584
00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:00,480
Speaker 1: to politicize folks. Hey, like, this is what's going on

585
00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:03,400
Speaker 1: in the world. Um, this is what you should learn about.

586
00:36:03,440 --> 00:36:06,359
Speaker 1: You should you know, read about these bills. You should

587
00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:10,439
Speaker 1: sign up for these um um signed why my blanking out?

588
00:36:10,520 --> 00:36:14,359
Speaker 1: But sign petition testions. Thank you signed petitions, get more

589
00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:18,960
Speaker 1: uh involved, learn about this, you know, like learn use

590
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:21,920
Speaker 1: what you learn about. Comeatone and you go and you know,

591
00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:25,160
Speaker 1: like use it in your everyday life. Inform other people

592
00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:29,120
Speaker 1: about what the undocumented you know, immigrants struggle is. So

593
00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:33,719
Speaker 1: comparty and come learn with us basically and further just

594
00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:38,080
Speaker 1: within I mean, yes, we are an undocumented lead collective.

595
00:36:38,239 --> 00:36:42,440
Speaker 1: But I think for us also it's about uplifting um

596
00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:46,640
Speaker 1: the oppressed minorities, right, whether it's black folks, whether it's

597
00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:52,399
Speaker 1: queer folks, gender nonconforming folks, right, people that would otherwise

598
00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:57,799
Speaker 1: wouldn't have access to the platforms that we are now creating. Right.

599
00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:02,000
Speaker 1: So it's it's a lot about also providing those types

600
00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:04,920
Speaker 1: of resources to folks that you know, we we were

601
00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:07,520
Speaker 1: just talking about this. It's not necessary, it doesn't necessarily

602
00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:09,920
Speaker 1: come down to the talent, because the talent is out there.

603
00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:13,120
Speaker 1: I can name so many talented people just off the

604
00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:15,800
Speaker 1: back of my head that are within our closed circle,

605
00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:18,400
Speaker 1: but they don't have, you know, the access to the

606
00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:21,600
Speaker 1: connections that access to the resources. Right. And a lot

607
00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:23,279
Speaker 1: of the time the people that get put on the

608
00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:26,360
Speaker 1: platforms aren't the people with the talent, aren't the people

609
00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:30,319
Speaker 1: with that should be there. They're the people with connections unfortunately. Right.

610
00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:33,239
Speaker 1: So for us it's really important to continue to like

611
00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:35,719
Speaker 1: look back within our own communitis and be like not

612
00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:39,040
Speaker 1: to like you wanna you want to have you know

613
00:37:39,120 --> 00:37:42,880
Speaker 1: this immigrant rights fundraiser akikiks or you want to have

614
00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:45,239
Speaker 1: you know, you want to talk about immigrants rights. But

615
00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:48,120
Speaker 1: then have all citizens on a panel or have all

616
00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:51,200
Speaker 1: citizens artists up there, and it's like na, son, like

617
00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:54,560
Speaker 1: we're here, right, like we're here, we exist, and there's

618
00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:59,560
Speaker 1: so many of us that are consistently just pushing out work. Um.

619
00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:02,520
Speaker 1: But for oi there, I think just because we are

620
00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:07,600
Speaker 1: also we do come from the organizing background, um. Organizing.

621
00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:10,440
Speaker 1: For those of you who have been it and whatever capacity,

622
00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:14,680
Speaker 1: you know how stressful and how crazy it can be. Right,

623
00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:17,680
Speaker 1: So for like for us to be able to create

624
00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:20,480
Speaker 1: a space where people can come heal through music on

625
00:38:20,520 --> 00:38:26,320
Speaker 1: the dance floor, y'all, that has been such a moving um.

626
00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:30,920
Speaker 1: It's one of those moving commentaries that people consistently give us. Right,

627
00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:33,759
Speaker 1: thank you for creating this space. Thank you for you know,

628
00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:37,280
Speaker 1: allowing us to dance and like, you know, even escape,

629
00:38:37,360 --> 00:38:40,279
Speaker 1: even if it's for those two hours in the night. Right,

630
00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:42,280
Speaker 1: because some of you all be coming in at eleven

631
00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:44,359
Speaker 1: and our party and it's like at one. So I'm

632
00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:49,000
Speaker 1: gonna just say that's on Friday, okay, okay, come out

633
00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:53,520
Speaker 1: to recharge, to rejuvenate, to release, to distress, and it's

634
00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:57,800
Speaker 1: like almost this sacred magic that happens on the dance

635
00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:00,279
Speaker 1: floor that you may or may not see if you

636
00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:02,439
Speaker 1: are just like on the dash flow, you may check

637
00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:04,239
Speaker 1: out somebody and we like, hey girl, I see you

638
00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:07,760
Speaker 1: feeling yourself right, But we're up here in the DJ booth,

639
00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:10,320
Speaker 1: or we're up here, I'm seeing, we're here capturing pictures,

640
00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:13,399
Speaker 1: and we see that and we get so emotional it's

641
00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:16,879
Speaker 1: so hard to hold. I mean, we're both cancers. Let

642
00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:20,839
Speaker 1: me start there, so we we both consistently just look

643
00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:24,000
Speaker 1: over and we're like, Friday, I don't know about you,

644
00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:27,600
Speaker 1: but it's so beautiful. It's so beautiful to see our

645
00:39:27,640 --> 00:39:33,120
Speaker 1: people rejoicing in each other's you know, livelihoods and in

646
00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:35,920
Speaker 1: turn resistance because this world is trying to funk us

647
00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:38,640
Speaker 1: all up. You know, the way it's set up right

648
00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:42,000
Speaker 1: now is trying to, you know, to tear us from

649
00:39:42,040 --> 00:39:46,200
Speaker 1: reaching our optimum self. I guess. But um, you know,

650
00:39:46,239 --> 00:39:48,840
Speaker 1: we're out here trying to make these waves and trying to,

651
00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:52,760
Speaker 1: um just provide this type of refuel for our folks.

652
00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:57,000
Speaker 1: Can we show love to that answer? I'm like, that

653
00:39:57,120 --> 00:39:59,960
Speaker 1: was an essay in words. I'm sorry. I'm like, it's

654
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:02,640
Speaker 1: as well, just like write her dissertation up here, or

655
00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:06,680
Speaker 1: like we'll get to the recording afterwards. Write that down,

656
00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:09,480
Speaker 1: write that down, write that all down. UM. So my

657
00:40:09,600 --> 00:40:11,560
Speaker 1: question kind of pivoting back a little bit when you

658
00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:15,720
Speaker 1: were talking about UM working intra community, right and working

659
00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:18,160
Speaker 1: with our folks. One thing that we've noticed and that

660
00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:21,640
Speaker 1: we love about y'all is that you bring in your mom's,

661
00:40:21,719 --> 00:40:24,760
Speaker 1: you bring in the thes, you bring in your family members,

662
00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:28,760
Speaker 1: right and for us, like as indie creators, like Mala's

663
00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:32,480
Speaker 1: sister works, she does, she's our events manager, right, our

664
00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:35,440
Speaker 1: our stage manager, and UM our moms are like very

665
00:40:35,440 --> 00:40:38,600
Speaker 1: supportive and help us in multiple ways along the like

666
00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:42,440
Speaker 1: throughout the past three years now, right, So what has

667
00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:45,600
Speaker 1: that been like involving your family? I know, like Sizzle,

668
00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:51,680
Speaker 1: your mom was there Friday dancing Julio like stage they

669
00:40:51,719 --> 00:40:55,239
Speaker 1: weren't working. Yeah, So like, yeah, what has that been like?

670
00:40:55,719 --> 00:40:58,319
Speaker 1: And I knowing you, it's been very intentional to bring

671
00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:01,440
Speaker 1: in your family and just typically your mother. Can you

672
00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:06,239
Speaker 1: touch on that? Yeah? Absolutely? I think UM for us,

673
00:41:06,320 --> 00:41:11,799
Speaker 1: Cuma Ton has rooted itself not only in our love

674
00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:15,440
Speaker 1: for Cumbia, but our love for Kumbia comes from our parents.

675
00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:19,839
Speaker 1: You know, our ancestors are Dias, our brothers are primos

676
00:41:19,960 --> 00:41:24,960
Speaker 1: primas p remex is right, whoever really just kind of

677
00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:28,759
Speaker 1: put that type of music on, put us onto that

678
00:41:28,800 --> 00:41:31,120
Speaker 1: type of music so early on, right, whether it was

679
00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:35,399
Speaker 1: blasting the Kumbias on Saturdays or Sunday mornings, and that's

680
00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:38,120
Speaker 1: how you knew you had to clean right. It was

681
00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:42,600
Speaker 1: also a way to also get you so culturally like

682
00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:46,120
Speaker 1: aware of all of the beats and talents that our

683
00:41:46,160 --> 00:41:50,560
Speaker 1: community has, right um. Obviously Kumia started off in Colombia,

684
00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:54,400
Speaker 1: but then started making its way to like Central America, Mexico,

685
00:41:54,520 --> 00:41:58,640
Speaker 1: and now it's a world worldwide sound. Um. But it's

686
00:41:58,680 --> 00:42:03,800
Speaker 1: been so important to us to focus on family dynamics

687
00:42:04,239 --> 00:42:07,560
Speaker 1: because those are the feelings and those are the memories

688
00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:11,040
Speaker 1: that bring back the most nostalgia and that makes us

689
00:42:11,080 --> 00:42:13,440
Speaker 1: feel safe, you know, when this world is trying to

690
00:42:13,480 --> 00:42:16,560
Speaker 1: crush us day in and day out. Those are the

691
00:42:16,640 --> 00:42:19,879
Speaker 1: memories that we hold on to a lot of the time, right,

692
00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:23,560
Speaker 1: that involved our family love, that involve all these deep

693
00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:26,680
Speaker 1: and strong ties. So for us, it's very intentional to

694
00:42:26,760 --> 00:42:31,240
Speaker 1: continue to uplift You know that all of this knowledge

695
00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:34,760
Speaker 1: is ancestral knowledge, and you know a lot of the

696
00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:37,120
Speaker 1: values and a lot of things that I have are

697
00:42:37,160 --> 00:42:39,680
Speaker 1: old to my mama. You know, she raised me in

698
00:42:39,680 --> 00:42:42,000
Speaker 1: the swap meet. So I was out there hustling and

699
00:42:42,040 --> 00:42:45,840
Speaker 1: Sally talking to Senora's trying to sell you know, whatever

700
00:42:45,880 --> 00:42:48,400
Speaker 1: I could sell for a quarter for two dollars. You know,

701
00:42:48,520 --> 00:42:51,520
Speaker 1: I was out there hustling from a very very early age.

702
00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:54,840
Speaker 1: And I owe a lot of who I am to

703
00:42:54,920 --> 00:42:58,000
Speaker 1: my mom. Um. She's not here. She's supposed to be

704
00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:00,080
Speaker 1: here with my thea, but they went out shopping and

705
00:42:59,840 --> 00:43:03,239
Speaker 1: they're like, hey, we're trying to get over there right now.

706
00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:05,840
Speaker 1: And I'm like, girl, it is seven fifteen. This is

707
00:43:05,840 --> 00:43:07,600
Speaker 1: over at it. But you know what, I'm gonna let

708
00:43:07,600 --> 00:43:11,439
Speaker 1: you do your thing. Uh. But anyway, you know, it's

709
00:43:11,480 --> 00:43:14,799
Speaker 1: it's so important because again it's just paying homage and

710
00:43:14,880 --> 00:43:18,799
Speaker 1: respect to them, to our elders who have just for

711
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:22,520
Speaker 1: years been pushing this cultural movement forward that now, for

712
00:43:22,640 --> 00:43:26,680
Speaker 1: whatever reason, is becoming more I don't know hip or more,

713
00:43:27,200 --> 00:43:30,080
Speaker 1: but it's like I saw somewhere that someone was like, yeah,

714
00:43:30,160 --> 00:43:33,480
Speaker 1: Kumya is like the new sound. Kumy is a new movement.

715
00:43:33,520 --> 00:43:37,840
Speaker 1: I'm like, bitch, where where you've been at all these

716
00:43:37,880 --> 00:43:40,719
Speaker 1: fucking years? You know what I mean? But I don't

717
00:43:40,719 --> 00:43:43,279
Speaker 1: know if it's just different people, but I'll let you

718
00:43:43,320 --> 00:43:46,200
Speaker 1: take it away because I'm about to get into my

719
00:43:46,239 --> 00:43:52,120
Speaker 1: political rend right now. I just wanted to add that, Um,

720
00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:54,800
Speaker 1: I mean, my mom isn't really involved in the in

721
00:43:54,920 --> 00:43:58,040
Speaker 1: the space, but I do love that we have been

722
00:43:58,040 --> 00:44:01,480
Speaker 1: able to create a space where people actually bring their

723
00:44:01,520 --> 00:44:04,200
Speaker 1: moms and their grandmas and they're diaz and they're having

724
00:44:04,239 --> 00:44:07,320
Speaker 1: the time of the time of their lives. So I'm

725
00:44:07,360 --> 00:44:10,200
Speaker 1: really happy we have that space. Yeah, we've seen, like

726
00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:13,640
Speaker 1: you're you had a MARES event which was amazing. I

727
00:44:13,680 --> 00:44:16,040
Speaker 1: tried taking my mom but it was like nine o'clock

728
00:44:16,080 --> 00:44:17,759
Speaker 1: and she was like, no, I can't go out any more.

729
00:44:18,239 --> 00:44:20,919
Speaker 1: She's like, yes, like I can't, I can't do it.

730
00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:26,759
Speaker 1: That event was beautiful and I did cry because, um,

731
00:44:26,800 --> 00:44:30,440
Speaker 1: the moms were there right at nine pm and and

732
00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:34,160
Speaker 1: many of the moms were dancing from nine to two am.

733
00:44:34,320 --> 00:44:37,600
Speaker 1: We did not sit down, So I was your mamma.

734
00:44:37,920 --> 00:44:41,120
Speaker 1: I was really happy for that. Yeah, and they probably

735
00:44:41,120 --> 00:44:45,000
Speaker 1: had like wondering tops and that was it. We we

736
00:44:45,160 --> 00:44:47,120
Speaker 1: offered free wine for the moms and you know, it's

737
00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:50,239
Speaker 1: a special day. They served the best so they had

738
00:44:50,280 --> 00:44:52,040
Speaker 1: the times of the time of their life. So I

739
00:44:52,080 --> 00:44:54,080
Speaker 1: was really happy for that. Give it up for mom's

740
00:44:57,000 --> 00:45:00,520
Speaker 1: We love moms. Uh sizzle. I love that you bring

741
00:45:00,600 --> 00:45:05,000
Speaker 1: up the swap meet because, um, I see the swap

742
00:45:05,040 --> 00:45:08,960
Speaker 1: meet in and let me say why, right, because is

743
00:45:08,960 --> 00:45:12,080
Speaker 1: not just the party. There's vendors, there's food, it's a

744
00:45:12,080 --> 00:45:17,279
Speaker 1: whole affair and it's something so cultural. We love a mercado,

745
00:45:17,840 --> 00:45:19,640
Speaker 1: We love a flea market, We love a swap meet,

746
00:45:19,680 --> 00:45:26,480
Speaker 1: whether it's the Mercato, PCC, Santa Fe Springs, um, the Guyjones. Yes,

747
00:45:26,719 --> 00:45:31,320
Speaker 1: like we like Latin X folks love a community mercado

748
00:45:31,360 --> 00:45:33,839
Speaker 1: where we can sell, we can show our wares, our

749
00:45:33,960 --> 00:45:37,560
Speaker 1: artistry and buy from the community. And you've replicated that

750
00:45:37,600 --> 00:45:40,600
Speaker 1: within the party. Can you talk about like doing that

751
00:45:40,640 --> 00:45:44,640
Speaker 1: and creating that space and how that came about? Yeah? Absolutely,

752
00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:50,240
Speaker 1: um again deriving from lived experiences being in the swap meets,

753
00:45:50,480 --> 00:45:55,200
Speaker 1: um creating that type of community within. Right. You would

754
00:45:55,280 --> 00:45:58,600
Speaker 1: go there every Saturday or every Sunday, and you already

755
00:45:58,680 --> 00:46:01,120
Speaker 1: knew no has is gonna set up next to you,

756
00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:04,240
Speaker 1: was gonna set up, you know, on the other side,

757
00:46:04,320 --> 00:46:07,160
Speaker 1: and you were gonna go get tackles from Chino Stackles, Right,

758
00:46:07,239 --> 00:46:09,520
Speaker 1: up in front, you know. So it's like this whole

759
00:46:09,520 --> 00:46:12,560
Speaker 1: community that you were able to build and to create

760
00:46:12,600 --> 00:46:16,879
Speaker 1: almost like a family. Right, your regular customers would come by,

761
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:19,440
Speaker 1: you would ask them, Hey, how's your daughter? You know,

762
00:46:19,480 --> 00:46:22,080
Speaker 1: I haven't seen her. We go to school together, you know,

763
00:46:22,440 --> 00:46:26,440
Speaker 1: things like that, um, and it's a very I don't know.

764
00:46:26,480 --> 00:46:30,560
Speaker 1: I feel that that type of relationship or that type

765
00:46:30,680 --> 00:46:35,000
Speaker 1: of culture that is formed for a lot of undocumented immigrants,

766
00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:37,160
Speaker 1: that's like your extended family. You know, a lot of

767
00:46:37,200 --> 00:46:39,920
Speaker 1: us come to this country without our families. You know,

768
00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:44,520
Speaker 1: we can't bring our twenty thirty fifty DS deals three

769
00:46:44,560 --> 00:46:48,680
Speaker 1: months whatever, right, so we continue to build these communities

770
00:46:48,719 --> 00:46:51,919
Speaker 1: amongst ourselves. And you see these at the swap meet.

771
00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:55,080
Speaker 1: So that's where my roots come from. And I was like,

772
00:46:55,120 --> 00:46:56,799
Speaker 1: you know what if we're doing and obviously at the

773
00:46:56,840 --> 00:46:59,320
Speaker 1: swap meets, right, you can have a swap meet without music,

774
00:46:59,560 --> 00:47:01,960
Speaker 1: So you would of the d D you know, playing

775
00:47:01,960 --> 00:47:05,560
Speaker 1: all the combias, all the jams, all the whatever was popping.

776
00:47:05,640 --> 00:47:09,719
Speaker 1: He was playing um and now you know, moving it

777
00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:12,200
Speaker 1: into venues. Were like, no, this is what we have

778
00:47:12,320 --> 00:47:14,880
Speaker 1: to do because this is true to our communities, This

779
00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:17,760
Speaker 1: is true to our culture. And what we've been able

780
00:47:17,840 --> 00:47:22,719
Speaker 1: to do, um at most Sciatons is have our vendors

781
00:47:22,760 --> 00:47:25,640
Speaker 1: come in and also give them that opportunity to give

782
00:47:25,680 --> 00:47:31,879
Speaker 1: them that platform to do their small business entrepreneurship like ventures. Yeah,

783
00:47:31,920 --> 00:47:35,960
Speaker 1: it's about you know, supporting each other's hustle and us. Actually,

784
00:47:36,360 --> 00:47:38,279
Speaker 1: you know, I was really happy, for example, our first

785
00:47:38,320 --> 00:47:41,040
Speaker 1: Katon we had as nice. I don't know if you

786
00:47:41,080 --> 00:47:42,920
Speaker 1: followed them on I G but I was a huge

787
00:47:42,920 --> 00:47:45,160
Speaker 1: fan of them, um while I was in school, and

788
00:47:45,200 --> 00:47:47,520
Speaker 1: so I was really happy to invite them to our

789
00:47:47,560 --> 00:47:51,200
Speaker 1: first sever coton and so not not only are we

790
00:47:51,280 --> 00:47:54,680
Speaker 1: fans of their work, but we like it is very

791
00:47:54,719 --> 00:47:58,440
Speaker 1: crucial for us to support each other's hustle. So was

792
00:47:58,480 --> 00:48:02,360
Speaker 1: also that space for them. Yeah, and I love that

793
00:48:02,440 --> 00:48:06,080
Speaker 1: y'all are talking about entrepreneurship right especially um we we

794
00:48:06,120 --> 00:48:08,520
Speaker 1: think of like the side hustle, right, but like our

795
00:48:08,560 --> 00:48:11,799
Speaker 1: communities are also like so there's such geniuses that they

796
00:48:11,880 --> 00:48:14,799
Speaker 1: have been entrepreneurs and side hustlers since like before the

797
00:48:14,960 --> 00:48:20,600
Speaker 1: term side hustler hustlers you know what I mean? Yes, yes,

798
00:48:20,640 --> 00:48:24,520
Speaker 1: I'm gonna let you finish. Yes, Sizzil agrees with me.

799
00:48:24,560 --> 00:48:27,480
Speaker 1: All Okay, so uh you know, we were talking a

800
00:48:27,480 --> 00:48:30,280
Speaker 1: little bit about this before we came out here, about

801
00:48:30,400 --> 00:48:34,319
Speaker 1: being women of color, being entrepreneurs having to work with

802
00:48:34,880 --> 00:48:39,960
Speaker 1: predominantly white men, right, or being just women and working

803
00:48:40,000 --> 00:48:42,839
Speaker 1: with maybe white women or you know whatever that may

804
00:48:42,840 --> 00:48:46,319
Speaker 1: be going into these spaces. Can you talk to us

805
00:48:46,360 --> 00:48:52,000
Speaker 1: about that experience being the entrepreneurs that you are moving from,

806
00:48:52,040 --> 00:48:56,600
Speaker 1: you know, bigger venues and what that's been like. Yeah,

807
00:48:56,000 --> 00:49:01,000
Speaker 1: So I'm I'm I'm the production man R. F. Comerton,

808
00:49:01,120 --> 00:49:04,560
Speaker 1: which essentially means, you know, looking over the logistics of

809
00:49:04,640 --> 00:49:08,160
Speaker 1: like the entire run of the show, right, what the booking,

810
00:49:08,200 --> 00:49:11,640
Speaker 1: the talent, what they need, Um, how our show, our

811
00:49:11,680 --> 00:49:14,680
Speaker 1: production is gonna look like, making sure that the venue

812
00:49:14,760 --> 00:49:17,799
Speaker 1: has this information, making sure we have the equipment available,

813
00:49:18,160 --> 00:49:21,840
Speaker 1: making sure we have hospitality, like all the details involved

814
00:49:21,840 --> 00:49:24,520
Speaker 1: in the in in the event, right and so like

815
00:49:24,560 --> 00:49:29,240
Speaker 1: the also said, it's we're mostly dealing with older white men, um,

816
00:49:29,560 --> 00:49:34,400
Speaker 1: and with that comes a lot of having sometimes to

817
00:49:34,520 --> 00:49:40,319
Speaker 1: bite your tongue. However, Um, it's just really frustrating because

818
00:49:40,360 --> 00:49:43,880
Speaker 1: a lot of the times they they underestimate us. You know,

819
00:49:44,520 --> 00:49:48,920
Speaker 1: it's a collective of mostly of brown folks who are undocumented.

820
00:49:49,200 --> 00:49:52,040
Speaker 1: They don't they don't see us packing the venue and

821
00:49:52,120 --> 00:49:56,360
Speaker 1: having a successful event, But we always freaking do um

822
00:49:56,440 --> 00:49:59,480
Speaker 1: every time, every time, every time, thank you. And you know,

823
00:50:00,120 --> 00:50:03,560
Speaker 1: the older white men aren't gonna like a woman of

824
00:50:03,600 --> 00:50:06,160
Speaker 1: color telling them what to do or tell them, hey, like,

825
00:50:06,400 --> 00:50:08,920
Speaker 1: I send you this information, ha, come you don't have it?

826
00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:13,600
Speaker 1: Get your ship together, basically, um. And it's also dealing

827
00:50:13,680 --> 00:50:16,320
Speaker 1: with not just older white men, but like young white

828
00:50:16,320 --> 00:50:19,920
Speaker 1: men who do the bare minimum, and I'm they're questioning, like,

829
00:50:19,960 --> 00:50:21,600
Speaker 1: how the hell do you have a job if I

830
00:50:21,680 --> 00:50:24,000
Speaker 1: send you all this information and you still can do it?

831
00:50:24,040 --> 00:50:27,759
Speaker 1: You know. So Um, it's very frustrating, but it has

832
00:50:27,840 --> 00:50:31,319
Speaker 1: definitely taught me a lot of lessons where like, hey, like,

833
00:50:31,560 --> 00:50:33,920
Speaker 1: I know my ship and I need to remember that.

834
00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:37,839
Speaker 1: And when I send you this information and I get

835
00:50:37,880 --> 00:50:40,640
Speaker 1: to the event, I know exactly what I'm going to

836
00:50:40,719 --> 00:50:43,520
Speaker 1: be expecting. And if you don't have it, then you're

837
00:50:43,520 --> 00:50:47,160
Speaker 1: already You've already messed up. And I'm I'm already unhappy,

838
00:50:47,520 --> 00:50:48,920
Speaker 1: and so I need to like step it up and

839
00:50:48,960 --> 00:50:52,279
Speaker 1: be more assertive. Right, But um, the key here is

840
00:50:52,320 --> 00:50:54,560
Speaker 1: to be assertive from the beginning, know that you already

841
00:50:54,600 --> 00:50:57,839
Speaker 1: know your ship and demand for what you already know

842
00:50:58,160 --> 00:51:02,000
Speaker 1: you need or you know you're event um needs. Right.

843
00:51:02,080 --> 00:51:07,800
Speaker 1: So it's just like growing tougher skin, being more uh

844
00:51:08,239 --> 00:51:11,719
Speaker 1: sure of what you of yourself and uh and what

845
00:51:11,920 --> 00:51:17,000
Speaker 1: you already know. So it's a learning lesson every every

846
00:51:17,040 --> 00:51:21,920
Speaker 1: event we go into, it's always a new lesson being learned.

847
00:51:22,520 --> 00:51:25,160
Speaker 1: It happened at the Globe. So I'm just like, you know,

848
00:51:25,239 --> 00:51:28,480
Speaker 1: keeping tabs, keeping notes, like you know, like I'm getting

849
00:51:28,520 --> 00:51:33,399
Speaker 1: better with each and everyone. But yeah, it's frustrating. Yeah,

850
00:51:33,440 --> 00:51:35,640
Speaker 1: And I've like I've said this before to Sizzle, We've

851
00:51:35,800 --> 00:51:37,879
Speaker 1: been on the phone together, and I'm just gonna say

852
00:51:37,920 --> 00:51:39,160
Speaker 1: this so I can put it out there and we

853
00:51:39,200 --> 00:51:41,960
Speaker 1: can manifest it. I cannot wait until we own our

854
00:51:42,040 --> 00:51:45,360
Speaker 1: own space, our own venue so that we can be

855
00:51:45,400 --> 00:51:48,400
Speaker 1: renting out to women, to un docu folks, to our

856
00:51:48,480 --> 00:51:50,960
Speaker 1: queer friends, our queer community, and like being able to

857
00:51:50,960 --> 00:51:56,920
Speaker 1: put on our own events and not be underestimating each other. Yeah, definitely.

858
00:51:57,239 --> 00:52:03,479
Speaker 1: And you like again, from organizing roots billiards in pool

859
00:52:03,520 --> 00:52:06,960
Speaker 1: Hall to the Kumatone collective has been to Harvard to speak.

860
00:52:07,680 --> 00:52:13,040
Speaker 1: Can you talk about that that that getting recognition from universities,

861
00:52:13,080 --> 00:52:16,640
Speaker 1: from press, from publications speaking at places like Harvard and

862
00:52:16,719 --> 00:52:20,720
Speaker 1: representing for your community and what that's been like. Yeah,

863
00:52:20,880 --> 00:52:25,640
Speaker 1: and okay, so that is another ball Clark, right, because

864
00:52:25,920 --> 00:52:31,560
Speaker 1: it's all of these Ivy League prestigious you know schools, Harvard, Brown.

865
00:52:31,600 --> 00:52:34,160
Speaker 1: We're going to be at Brown, UM in two weeks

866
00:52:34,239 --> 00:52:38,560
Speaker 1: giving lessons to UM Brown students who are again Ivy

867
00:52:38,640 --> 00:52:44,279
Speaker 1: League students. UM about entrepreneurship, right, UM. For me, I

868
00:52:44,320 --> 00:52:47,440
Speaker 1: started doing parties, believe it or not, UM, when I

869
00:52:47,560 --> 00:52:49,759
Speaker 1: was fifteen or so. Back in the day, we used

870
00:52:49,760 --> 00:52:52,120
Speaker 1: to have flyer parties. I don't know how old y'all are,

871
00:52:52,400 --> 00:52:58,200
Speaker 1: right now, remember the flying parties? Whoop the whoop? What's up? Um? Right?

872
00:52:58,320 --> 00:53:02,680
Speaker 1: But my career did. I'm thirty now, fifteen years ago, right,

873
00:53:02,800 --> 00:53:06,160
Speaker 1: and nobody really knows this. Like these white men, these

874
00:53:06,239 --> 00:53:09,040
Speaker 1: like old white men, these like younger little bills that

875
00:53:09,160 --> 00:53:11,839
Speaker 1: just got out of college and think there's some ship.

876
00:53:11,960 --> 00:53:14,200
Speaker 1: You know. I'm like, dude, seriously, I was doing this

877
00:53:14,239 --> 00:53:18,600
Speaker 1: ship when somebody was changing your diapers seriously, right, And

878
00:53:18,760 --> 00:53:22,319
Speaker 1: it's about having all of this business experience that I

879
00:53:22,360 --> 00:53:26,040
Speaker 1: didn't know back in the day, right, was gonna like

880
00:53:26,160 --> 00:53:28,319
Speaker 1: serve me, right. My mom used to tell me, get

881
00:53:29,120 --> 00:53:34,960
Speaker 1: a little bodies get and I'm like, look at me,

882
00:53:35,040 --> 00:53:40,920
Speaker 1: my mom, right, So don't let anybody tell you party

883
00:53:40,920 --> 00:53:45,000
Speaker 1: won't lead to anything because we're out here speaking at

884
00:53:45,000 --> 00:53:48,200
Speaker 1: Harvard and at Brown when with the looks at the way,

885
00:53:48,360 --> 00:53:51,800
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, um, but for real, it's it's this

886
00:53:51,960 --> 00:53:55,759
Speaker 1: scene where like now, you know, different college students or

887
00:53:55,800 --> 00:53:59,480
Speaker 1: like different universities are looking to collectives like us because

888
00:53:59,760 --> 00:54:02,719
Speaker 1: we been able to grow something that started off in

889
00:54:02,920 --> 00:54:06,080
Speaker 1: a little hole in the wall of fifty people, and

890
00:54:06,120 --> 00:54:08,879
Speaker 1: we've been able to ranch it out to cities like

891
00:54:09,000 --> 00:54:12,520
Speaker 1: San Francisco, like Seattle. We're gonna be in New York

892
00:54:12,560 --> 00:54:14,480
Speaker 1: at the end of the month, right, And these are

893
00:54:14,520 --> 00:54:18,560
Speaker 1: all residents residencies that we've been able to make within

894
00:54:18,680 --> 00:54:23,000
Speaker 1: these two years. So I mean, for thank you for us.

895
00:54:23,080 --> 00:54:27,080
Speaker 1: That's been such a freaking like just affirmation, right that

896
00:54:27,200 --> 00:54:30,680
Speaker 1: whatever we can that whatever we set our minds to

897
00:54:30,920 --> 00:54:36,120
Speaker 1: do as women, as queerful, as undocumented people, as oppressed minorities,

898
00:54:36,160 --> 00:54:39,800
Speaker 1: we can't do, you know when we have each other's

899
00:54:39,840 --> 00:54:45,560
Speaker 1: backs like that, right, So I mean that that you're like, yeah, no,

900
00:54:45,719 --> 00:54:47,480
Speaker 1: I'm like, I just want to affirm that so much

901
00:54:47,560 --> 00:54:50,080
Speaker 1: because you know, I like I got my degree guarduted

902
00:54:50,080 --> 00:54:54,000
Speaker 1: from EC Santa Barbara back in and I just I

903
00:54:54,040 --> 00:54:56,640
Speaker 1: feel like the way I was taught and even in

904
00:54:56,760 --> 00:54:59,120
Speaker 1: under either like in my family or like at school,

905
00:54:59,480 --> 00:55:02,000
Speaker 1: it was very linear, you know, so it was like

906
00:55:02,040 --> 00:55:03,719
Speaker 1: I had to get a degree in order to get

907
00:55:03,719 --> 00:55:06,120
Speaker 1: a job, you know. But like what you're talking about

908
00:55:06,239 --> 00:55:07,759
Speaker 1: is like, no, I've been doing this ship since I

909
00:55:07,840 --> 00:55:10,520
Speaker 1: was fifteen, And like now that you're going into IVY

910
00:55:10,600 --> 00:55:13,359
Speaker 1: leagues and you're talking about the entrepreneurship of what you've

911
00:55:13,360 --> 00:55:15,560
Speaker 1: been doing, like it's so mind blowing to me. And

912
00:55:15,600 --> 00:55:18,480
Speaker 1: I just want to affirm that that that's so fucking badass,

913
00:55:18,760 --> 00:55:21,880
Speaker 1: and that's amazing that like these now young college students

914
00:55:22,080 --> 00:55:26,279
Speaker 1: have like y'all collective to talk about entrepreneurship, and like

915
00:55:26,360 --> 00:55:28,840
Speaker 1: you can be doing this ship while you're in undergrad

916
00:55:28,880 --> 00:55:30,440
Speaker 1: you know, like while you're in school, or you don't

917
00:55:30,480 --> 00:55:35,879
Speaker 1: have to go to school, you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah,

918
00:55:37,160 --> 00:55:40,160
Speaker 1: because there's so much to say about that too, because

919
00:55:40,200 --> 00:55:42,200
Speaker 1: and I'm not gonna sit here and be like, oh,

920
00:55:42,280 --> 00:55:44,800
Speaker 1: don't go to college, Not dude, go to college. Get

921
00:55:44,840 --> 00:55:47,960
Speaker 1: that freaking get that book smart, but also get that

922
00:55:48,440 --> 00:55:51,680
Speaker 1: street smart. You know what? I mean, the most lethal combination,

923
00:55:51,719 --> 00:55:56,760
Speaker 1: in my opinion, is somebody who's both school and street smart,

924
00:55:56,880 --> 00:55:59,480
Speaker 1: straight up, right, because you know the ins and outs

925
00:55:59,520 --> 00:56:02,560
Speaker 1: out of the institutions, out of the streets, and I

926
00:56:02,600 --> 00:56:06,239
Speaker 1: think that is like most of our collective. So you know,

927
00:56:06,520 --> 00:56:09,399
Speaker 1: just be always mindful of that. And even if maybe

928
00:56:09,480 --> 00:56:11,839
Speaker 1: school is not the right path for you, don't let

929
00:56:11,880 --> 00:56:14,960
Speaker 1: anybody talk to you out of your dreams, especially out

930
00:56:14,960 --> 00:56:17,319
Speaker 1: of your creative dreams, you know, because for a lot

931
00:56:17,360 --> 00:56:21,239
Speaker 1: of us, you know, we all pursued careers or education

932
00:56:21,800 --> 00:56:24,480
Speaker 1: that is the furthest thing away from like you know,

933
00:56:24,640 --> 00:56:28,359
Speaker 1: event production. But we're out here handling business because these

934
00:56:28,400 --> 00:56:31,640
Speaker 1: are the skills that the streets taught us. Right, So

935
00:56:32,040 --> 00:56:35,800
Speaker 1: don't ever like downplay yourselves with whatever you know streets

936
00:56:35,880 --> 00:56:38,200
Speaker 1: or like street smarts that you do have. Like for us,

937
00:56:38,239 --> 00:56:41,120
Speaker 1: it's so important to always wrap the hoods that we

938
00:56:41,239 --> 00:56:43,560
Speaker 1: come from, you know, because all of us do come

939
00:56:43,640 --> 00:56:46,160
Speaker 1: from like the fucking Bario straight up, you know. I'm

940
00:56:46,160 --> 00:56:49,720
Speaker 1: from Boro Heights, Norms is from South Central Um, Funky

941
00:56:49,760 --> 00:56:54,359
Speaker 1: Karamelos from Pico Union, Hulo from North Long Beach which

942
00:56:54,400 --> 00:56:59,560
Speaker 1: is hard to um and Baolo where's Ballo from from? Pasadena.

943
00:57:00,480 --> 00:57:12,200
Speaker 1: You know what like the North Molin. Hey, that's why

944
00:57:12,200 --> 00:57:17,680
Speaker 1: I said most of us. But now, honestly, yes, protoscope,

945
00:57:17,720 --> 00:57:21,600
Speaker 1: but also follow your passion. I mean, I'm a history major.

946
00:57:22,000 --> 00:57:24,240
Speaker 1: If you would have told me three years from you

947
00:57:24,280 --> 00:57:28,040
Speaker 1: know ago, that I would have been producing events events, like,

948
00:57:28,640 --> 00:57:30,600
Speaker 1: there's no way in hell that I would have believed you.

949
00:57:30,640 --> 00:57:33,400
Speaker 1: So if you if your passion is to go to

950
00:57:33,480 --> 00:57:36,040
Speaker 1: school and also you another you have another passion on

951
00:57:36,080 --> 00:57:39,280
Speaker 1: the side, do both? Why not? But yeah, she's a

952
00:57:39,400 --> 00:57:41,360
Speaker 1: history major from u c l A. I'm just saw

953
00:57:41,400 --> 00:57:46,040
Speaker 1: it out there. Yeah, thank you. That's how you feel too,

954
00:57:46,160 --> 00:57:48,640
Speaker 1: Like did you like when you were getting your now

955
00:57:48,720 --> 00:57:50,880
Speaker 1: looking back, like your degree is from toughs, like did

956
00:57:50,880 --> 00:57:53,560
Speaker 1: you think you'd be like doing panels and doing parties

957
00:57:53,600 --> 00:57:57,560
Speaker 1: and podcasting and ship like oh, like, oh, my brand

958
00:57:57,640 --> 00:58:00,600
Speaker 1: is multidimensional home, Like did you think that that was

959
00:58:00,640 --> 00:58:02,960
Speaker 1: going to be the brand? I had no idea. What

960
00:58:02,960 --> 00:58:06,720
Speaker 1: about sex fass exactly? I had no idea, But it's

961
00:58:06,760 --> 00:58:09,960
Speaker 1: one of those things. Were like, Okay, how many of

962
00:58:10,040 --> 00:58:12,520
Speaker 1: us have heard that we're wasting our time on our

963
00:58:12,560 --> 00:58:15,400
Speaker 1: social media. We've been on social media since my Space,

964
00:58:15,400 --> 00:58:19,760
Speaker 1: since we were children, since aims or that, and always

965
00:58:19,800 --> 00:58:22,000
Speaker 1: the rhetoric has been you're wasting your time, You're wasting

966
00:58:22,000 --> 00:58:25,480
Speaker 1: your time, do this, do that, But there's a path,

967
00:58:25,720 --> 00:58:28,520
Speaker 1: there's something there. Social media has been so important as

968
00:58:28,520 --> 00:58:33,760
Speaker 1: a vehicle for organizing fort and for look, so all

969
00:58:33,800 --> 00:58:36,280
Speaker 1: that to say, ignore the haters, don't listen to them,

970
00:58:36,880 --> 00:58:38,919
Speaker 1: do what you want to do. It'll work out, It'll

971
00:58:38,920 --> 00:58:42,000
Speaker 1: pan out, you know. Um So we have a couple

972
00:58:42,080 --> 00:58:45,760
Speaker 1: more questions left. Yes, um so, shifting gears a little bit,

973
00:58:45,800 --> 00:58:48,240
Speaker 1: but still in line with what we were talking about.

974
00:58:48,320 --> 00:58:54,200
Speaker 1: You have both mentioned, you know, healing on the dance floor, resistance, right,

975
00:58:54,360 --> 00:58:57,480
Speaker 1: can you talk about and doc you joy and centering

976
00:58:57,720 --> 00:59:01,800
Speaker 1: undocu joy because that's what is right? Can you talk

977
00:59:01,840 --> 00:59:06,640
Speaker 1: about that exactly? Um So this goes along with you know,

978
00:59:06,680 --> 00:59:10,280
Speaker 1: how sustain mentioned when everything you know, like when ship

979
00:59:10,560 --> 00:59:13,920
Speaker 1: hit the fan with that full becoming president and I

980
00:59:14,560 --> 00:59:21,480
Speaker 1: refused to say, right, um you know, like we knew

981
00:59:21,520 --> 00:59:23,560
Speaker 1: things were going to get even worse. Right, so we

982
00:59:23,560 --> 00:59:26,480
Speaker 1: were were already used to things being stacked up against

983
00:59:26,520 --> 00:59:30,200
Speaker 1: this and we're used to like making the best out

984
00:59:30,240 --> 00:59:35,520
Speaker 1: of the worst situation. And so um is where we

985
00:59:36,160 --> 00:59:38,360
Speaker 1: it's a space where we preserve and doc you Joey,

986
00:59:38,360 --> 00:59:43,240
Speaker 1: where folks who are undocumented they can come and and

987
00:59:43,280 --> 00:59:46,400
Speaker 1: really you know, just be themselves, have fun on a

988
00:59:46,520 --> 00:59:51,760
Speaker 1: dance warend really expressor and doc you Joy despite of

989
00:59:52,040 --> 00:59:55,280
Speaker 1: everything that's happening outside in the world. You know. So

990
00:59:56,640 --> 01:00:00,680
Speaker 1: that's that's what doctor Joy for me is. Yeah, and

991
01:00:00,880 --> 01:00:05,960
Speaker 1: for us it's also about again uplifting the narrative that

992
01:00:06,040 --> 01:00:15,720
Speaker 1: we're not necessarily these pitiful box right, folks that can't

993
01:00:15,720 --> 01:00:18,480
Speaker 1: fend for themselves, that don't have a voice. Not something

994
01:00:18,480 --> 01:00:20,760
Speaker 1: you don't need to speak for us. You just need

995
01:00:20,800 --> 01:00:23,600
Speaker 1: to pass the mic. You just need to shed the light, right,

996
01:00:24,080 --> 01:00:27,480
Speaker 1: whether it's the speakers, whether it's the artist. Again, I

997
01:00:27,520 --> 01:00:30,439
Speaker 1: go back to this because it's so important to also like,

998
01:00:30,840 --> 01:00:34,360
Speaker 1: you know, whoever is having events to also check your friends,

999
01:00:34,520 --> 01:00:37,760
Speaker 1: right you have and like, for me, we see all

1000
01:00:37,800 --> 01:00:41,200
Speaker 1: of these brands now being like, you know, yes, fucking

1001
01:00:41,280 --> 01:00:45,680
Speaker 1: dreamers and funck I yes, great, that's cute, you know,

1002
01:00:46,280 --> 01:00:49,360
Speaker 1: but I don't nowhere basically because it's like the trendy

1003
01:00:49,400 --> 01:00:51,640
Speaker 1: thing to do. I was just telling you the other day,

1004
01:00:51,680 --> 01:00:54,760
Speaker 1: I was like, god damned girl, Like being undocumented is

1005
01:00:54,800 --> 01:00:59,360
Speaker 1: popular again, you know. I'm like, there's nothing cute really

1006
01:00:59,400 --> 01:01:03,440
Speaker 1: about being undocumented. We have to deal with fucking trauma,

1007
01:01:03,960 --> 01:01:07,760
Speaker 1: real ass depression, real ass life choices. You know, we're

1008
01:01:07,840 --> 01:01:10,640
Speaker 1: thirty when we got here, you know, like we haven't

1009
01:01:10,680 --> 01:01:13,400
Speaker 1: even most of us haven't even been able to leave

1010
01:01:13,480 --> 01:01:16,720
Speaker 1: the country, you know. Um, And for us, like this

1011
01:01:16,800 --> 01:01:19,200
Speaker 1: is an ongoing thought that we have to have without

1012
01:01:19,240 --> 01:01:22,280
Speaker 1: a thought and conversation that we have with each other, right,

1013
01:01:22,320 --> 01:01:25,120
Speaker 1: like our youth is escaping us. We're not gonna stay here.

1014
01:01:25,120 --> 01:01:28,840
Speaker 1: And this freaking how Lado like I like to call it, right,

1015
01:01:28,880 --> 01:01:31,040
Speaker 1: like in this cage of gold. Right, I want to

1016
01:01:31,080 --> 01:01:32,680
Speaker 1: be able to travel. I want to be able to

1017
01:01:32,680 --> 01:01:37,160
Speaker 1: take to to you know, Colombia, to a life, to

1018
01:01:37,680 --> 01:01:40,280
Speaker 1: Spain or maybe not Spain. I don't know, y'all to

1019
01:01:40,320 --> 01:01:43,640
Speaker 1: call it night list, but you know, different places. I

1020
01:01:43,640 --> 01:01:45,560
Speaker 1: don't know. It just got into my head. I haven't

1021
01:01:45,560 --> 01:01:48,800
Speaker 1: traveled the world. Don't judge me. But it's all of

1022
01:01:48,840 --> 01:01:51,040
Speaker 1: these things that I want to be able to do

1023
01:01:51,440 --> 01:01:55,080
Speaker 1: right personally but also with our collective right, that's what

1024
01:01:55,160 --> 01:01:57,680
Speaker 1: I want to be able to do. And for us,

1025
01:01:57,720 --> 01:02:00,320
Speaker 1: it's so important to continue to hold space for one

1026
01:02:00,320 --> 01:02:03,800
Speaker 1: another for all of these types of conversations and even

1027
01:02:04,080 --> 01:02:07,800
Speaker 1: a party that is ran for and by undocumented people,

1028
01:02:07,920 --> 01:02:12,720
Speaker 1: because when again things go sour, right, you will show

1029
01:02:12,800 --> 01:02:14,960
Speaker 1: up to a spot, You will show up to a place,

1030
01:02:15,000 --> 01:02:16,560
Speaker 1: and we don't even have to tell each other. We

1031
01:02:16,560 --> 01:02:19,200
Speaker 1: don't even have to exchange a word, we have to

1032
01:02:19,320 --> 01:02:25,040
Speaker 1: exchange eyes. We just you know, share this kind of phase,

1033
01:02:25,240 --> 01:02:28,440
Speaker 1: this kind of connection that I don't think anybody else

1034
01:02:28,480 --> 01:02:31,000
Speaker 1: will ever know unless you go through of Like dance

1035
01:02:31,160 --> 01:02:34,320
Speaker 1: is like this is happening, you know, and at the

1036
01:02:34,400 --> 01:02:35,960
Speaker 1: end of the day, we're still going to be out

1037
01:02:36,000 --> 01:02:40,840
Speaker 1: here resisting, whether it's dancing, whether it's healing, whether it's singing,

1038
01:02:40,920 --> 01:02:43,440
Speaker 1: whether it's crying on the dance group. But we're doing

1039
01:02:43,480 --> 01:02:46,640
Speaker 1: that together and that's a special type of connection that

1040
01:02:47,160 --> 01:02:49,960
Speaker 1: you know, I don't think anybody will ever know unless

1041
01:02:50,000 --> 01:02:53,040
Speaker 1: you absolutely go through that. So you know, that's why

1042
01:02:53,040 --> 01:02:56,560
Speaker 1: it's important for us to continue to uplift not only

1043
01:02:56,600 --> 01:03:00,480
Speaker 1: the narratives, but like you know, just our experience is

1044
01:03:01,440 --> 01:03:04,640
Speaker 1: everything that we do is for and by our community

1045
01:03:04,720 --> 01:03:08,160
Speaker 1: because we know like how fucked up things are. Show

1046
01:03:08,240 --> 01:03:12,280
Speaker 1: love once again, once again, Do we love you so much?

1047
01:03:12,640 --> 01:03:15,240
Speaker 1: I love y'all. Goodness, we love y'all. We have one

1048
01:03:15,240 --> 01:03:17,920
Speaker 1: final question. Then we're gonna open up um for Q

1049
01:03:18,040 --> 01:03:20,160
Speaker 1: and A. We're gonna open it up for questions. So

1050
01:03:20,520 --> 01:03:23,880
Speaker 1: it is the launch of Hispanic Heritage Month, and we're

1051
01:03:23,880 --> 01:03:27,160
Speaker 1: wondering what your thoughts are about because I'm sure you

1052
01:03:27,280 --> 01:03:30,439
Speaker 1: probably during certain times of the year single the MAO

1053
01:03:30,600 --> 01:03:35,280
Speaker 1: Hispanic Heritage Month, you probably get hit up extra. So

1054
01:03:35,320 --> 01:03:38,080
Speaker 1: I'm wondering your thoughts on like these more corporate holidays

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Speaker 1: versus celebrating who we are throughout the year. If you

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01:03:41,800 --> 01:03:46,000
Speaker 1: have any thoughts about that, Well, that goes along with

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01:03:46,480 --> 01:03:49,320
Speaker 1: what says he just mentioned how it's hip to be

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01:03:49,400 --> 01:03:53,480
Speaker 1: undocumented now and everyone's buck guys and um, you know,

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01:03:53,560 --> 01:03:59,000
Speaker 1: working against UH or fighting for immigrant rights. Um, the

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01:03:59,040 --> 01:04:02,200
Speaker 1: celebration of ladin next heritage should be all year round.

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01:04:02,320 --> 01:04:04,960
Speaker 1: And one of the things that for example, we try

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01:04:05,000 --> 01:04:08,200
Speaker 1: and focus on at Coton is at Latin X doesn't

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01:04:08,600 --> 01:04:13,040
Speaker 1: doesn't primarily mean Mexican. We try and stay away from

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01:04:13,320 --> 01:04:17,600
Speaker 1: being Mexican centric because our collective is mostly Mexican. We

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01:04:17,640 --> 01:04:28,040
Speaker 1: have Paolo who's Peruvian. Shot out shout outpacity, Yes Calo, Yes,

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01:04:28,680 --> 01:04:32,800
Speaker 1: I love Boolo. He's such a cutie. But um, latin X,

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01:04:32,960 --> 01:04:38,000
Speaker 1: is you know it's not. We are constantly fighting against

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01:04:38,040 --> 01:04:42,040
Speaker 1: trying to be or fighting against being Mexican centric, because

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01:04:42,120 --> 01:04:45,160
Speaker 1: Latin x is not just Mexico. It's different, you know,

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01:04:45,320 --> 01:04:50,120
Speaker 1: different Latin American countries. So um, that's sorry, I just

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01:04:50,160 --> 01:04:53,960
Speaker 1: lost my train of thought. But expanding the conversation throughout

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01:04:54,000 --> 01:04:56,560
Speaker 1: the year, always at all the events rating every day,

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01:04:56,600 --> 01:04:59,000
Speaker 1: all day, every day type of thing. Yeah, and this

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01:04:59,080 --> 01:05:01,280
Speaker 1: is actually a conversation and we're gonna have We're gonna

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01:05:01,320 --> 01:05:04,600
Speaker 1: have to have with the venue because again as long

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01:05:04,600 --> 01:05:08,440
Speaker 1: as is mentioning, we don't like to be just Mexi centric, right,

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01:05:08,480 --> 01:05:11,920
Speaker 1: because there's a whole lot of things wrong with Mexicans. Yeah,

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01:05:11,960 --> 01:05:14,760
Speaker 1: and I say this as a Mexican myself, you know,

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01:05:15,160 --> 01:05:18,720
Speaker 1: really with the Central American refugees right now and May

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01:05:18,920 --> 01:05:27,280
Speaker 1: and anti blackness and anti religions, homophobia lies on a time. Yes, yes, yes,

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01:05:27,400 --> 01:05:30,640
Speaker 1: so we are. Um. For folks who were at our

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01:05:30,720 --> 01:05:35,880
Speaker 1: Coton event, Um, we had Banda Angelena's perform. They're all

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01:05:36,000 --> 01:05:43,000
Speaker 1: women led banda from mostly Easterly and Compton and they're amazing. Right. However,

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01:05:43,560 --> 01:05:44,960
Speaker 1: I don't know if you noticed, but there was a

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01:05:45,000 --> 01:05:48,160
Speaker 1: Mexican flag in the background and then the Mexican light

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01:05:48,520 --> 01:05:52,360
Speaker 1: theme like theme lights. We didn't ask for that, and

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01:05:52,400 --> 01:05:55,800
Speaker 1: so the venue took it upon themselves to to to

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01:05:55,960 --> 01:05:59,120
Speaker 1: showcase that. And so that's an issue that we have

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01:05:59,720 --> 01:06:02,640
Speaker 1: because us first of all, like like, how do you

1090
01:06:02,640 --> 01:06:06,840
Speaker 1: feel so comfortable like incorporating your own ideas into our production?

1091
01:06:07,440 --> 01:06:10,720
Speaker 1: And so it's that privilege, it's that privilege for men,

1092
01:06:10,840 --> 01:06:15,320
Speaker 1: that thing. Oh they all Mexicans. This makes yeah, let's

1093
01:06:15,320 --> 01:06:18,040
Speaker 1: makes sense. So it's like, so we're gonna have a

1094
01:06:18,080 --> 01:06:20,920
Speaker 1: conversation about that because asking me at the own we

1095
01:06:21,000 --> 01:06:26,960
Speaker 1: don't we we do not want to be Mexican centric. Um. So, yeah,

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01:06:27,120 --> 01:06:29,120
Speaker 1: it's gonna happen. I don't know how it's gonna go,

1097
01:06:29,160 --> 01:06:31,400
Speaker 1: but it's gonna happen. And I think that it just

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01:06:31,440 --> 01:06:35,880
Speaker 1: goes along with like everything, right, even with like June, right,

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01:06:36,040 --> 01:06:42,720
Speaker 1: Pride Month, everybody all of us a sudden everywhere, right banks,

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01:06:42,800 --> 01:06:47,480
Speaker 1: Coca Cola freak in the NFL, all me right, the

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01:06:47,600 --> 01:06:53,480
Speaker 1: police the police right? No, yes, absolutely, And there's still

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01:06:53,480 --> 01:06:55,760
Speaker 1: people that have police at Pride and that's a whole

1103
01:06:55,760 --> 01:06:58,280
Speaker 1: other issue. But I'm like, y'all don't even know the

1104
01:06:58,400 --> 01:07:01,400
Speaker 1: history of it, and like y'all we here share shaking

1105
01:07:01,520 --> 01:07:04,320
Speaker 1: and like promoting freaking pride and I'm like, we we

1106
01:07:04,400 --> 01:07:06,400
Speaker 1: all don't like you just as an f I I

1107
01:07:06,640 --> 01:07:10,520
Speaker 1: But you know what, that's another podcast episode girl, like

1108
01:07:10,840 --> 01:07:14,880
Speaker 1: the yeah pride in the cops and not remembering the

1109
01:07:14,920 --> 01:07:18,200
Speaker 1: Stonewall riots, and we can talk about that another day definitely,

1110
01:07:18,800 --> 01:07:21,200
Speaker 1: But it it goes back to that right of like

1111
01:07:21,280 --> 01:07:26,280
Speaker 1: this commercialized almost identity right that it's like, oh, it's

1112
01:07:26,320 --> 01:07:29,120
Speaker 1: cool to be queer in June, and it's cool to

1113
01:07:29,200 --> 01:07:33,280
Speaker 1: be mexic Centric in September, and I don't know what

1114
01:07:33,440 --> 01:07:36,720
Speaker 1: happens in October, but let's shift to that, right. But

1115
01:07:37,120 --> 01:07:41,360
Speaker 1: for us, it's about continuously paying homage to our queer ancestors,

1116
01:07:41,760 --> 01:07:45,440
Speaker 1: to just like the cultural workers that don't necessarily have

1117
01:07:45,520 --> 01:07:48,440
Speaker 1: to be Mexican, right, A lot of them are Central American,

1118
01:07:48,600 --> 01:07:52,560
Speaker 1: Southern American, right, that are just doing freaking work. And

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01:07:52,600 --> 01:07:55,000
Speaker 1: I think that is definitely one of the things that

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Speaker 1: we try to consistently fight, whether it's with the venues

1121
01:07:58,280 --> 01:08:01,560
Speaker 1: or whether it's you know, this doesn't just happen off

1122
01:08:01,600 --> 01:08:05,320
Speaker 1: of like one incident, right, it has to be continuously

1123
01:08:05,440 --> 01:08:09,280
Speaker 1: challenged because that's how people unfortunately kind of just generalize

1124
01:08:09,320 --> 01:08:13,160
Speaker 1: us all and it's it sucks. We want to thank

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01:08:13,160 --> 01:08:15,240
Speaker 1: you so much for being here with us tonight and

1126
01:08:15,280 --> 01:08:18,920
Speaker 1: doing everything you do. Thank you for having us, and

1127
01:08:19,040 --> 01:08:22,120
Speaker 1: thank you for listening list and also for folks who

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01:08:22,160 --> 01:08:25,519
Speaker 1: don't know, Sizzle is our resident DJ, so she DJs

1129
01:08:25,560 --> 01:08:28,640
Speaker 1: all of our look our live shows. She's on the

1130
01:08:28,880 --> 01:08:31,360
Speaker 1: stage with us. We do a variety show. We have

1131
01:08:31,400 --> 01:08:32,880
Speaker 1: so much love for the both of you, for the

1132
01:08:32,880 --> 01:08:36,680
Speaker 1: Gumaton collective. Once again, thank you, thank you here with us,

1133
01:08:36,760 --> 01:08:40,439
Speaker 1: thank you for having us. I'm major thank you to

1134
01:08:40,479 --> 01:08:43,600
Speaker 1: the Wing for hosting this conversation tonight and for approaching

1135
01:08:43,680 --> 01:08:45,720
Speaker 1: us about doing this. Yes, give it up for the Wing,

1136
01:08:49,439 --> 01:08:52,240
Speaker 1: so we're going to open it up. It's Q and

1137
01:08:52,280 --> 01:08:55,000
Speaker 1: a time so we have a mic here. So whoever

1138
01:08:55,040 --> 01:08:59,200
Speaker 1: has questions for Sizzle, for norms for us, Yeah, it's

1139
01:08:59,200 --> 01:09:06,920
Speaker 1: all you, not everyone at once. Good evening, ladies. When

1140
01:09:06,960 --> 01:09:10,680
Speaker 1: it comes time to pass the baton onto the next generation,

1141
01:09:11,400 --> 01:09:18,080
Speaker 1: what is your greatest expectation of them? And way to

1142
01:09:18,160 --> 01:09:23,000
Speaker 1: make me feel old? I mean, we do have the

1143
01:09:23,080 --> 01:09:26,400
Speaker 1: ongoing joke and that we should have started We're all

1144
01:09:26,400 --> 01:09:28,280
Speaker 1: in our thirties and we should have started this when

1145
01:09:28,320 --> 01:09:33,280
Speaker 1: we were in our twenties. Right, But um, I would

1146
01:09:33,360 --> 01:09:39,000
Speaker 1: say to continue with with holding our our vision and

1147
01:09:39,080 --> 01:09:44,720
Speaker 1: mission of you know, um, supporting one another, keeping community

1148
01:09:44,760 --> 01:09:50,920
Speaker 1: at the forefront um, and not I guess selling out

1149
01:09:51,080 --> 01:09:58,240
Speaker 1: to certain um trends. Um. But actually I'm not sure

1150
01:09:58,320 --> 01:10:02,080
Speaker 1: that's a that's a loaded question. And um, but what

1151
01:10:02,120 --> 01:10:07,000
Speaker 1: do you mean by the next generation? Yeah, because you've

1152
01:10:07,040 --> 01:10:10,360
Speaker 1: put so much love and hard work, blood, sweat and

1153
01:10:10,400 --> 01:10:13,639
Speaker 1: tears into this. So what is it that you're hoping

1154
01:10:13,760 --> 01:10:20,160
Speaker 1: or expecting that this becomes ten years from now? Um? Well,

1155
01:10:20,160 --> 01:10:22,599
Speaker 1: I mean the goal from the beginning has always been

1156
01:10:22,720 --> 01:10:26,680
Speaker 1: to establish relationships with other folks and other states. If

1157
01:10:26,680 --> 01:10:28,920
Speaker 1: you want to see your own kind of coton't happen

1158
01:10:29,000 --> 01:10:33,519
Speaker 1: within your city you started, will connect, will collaborate, but

1159
01:10:33,840 --> 01:10:37,639
Speaker 1: essentially you create your space however you wanted to see

1160
01:10:37,680 --> 01:10:40,479
Speaker 1: how you want to see it. Right. But I think,

1161
01:10:40,960 --> 01:10:44,280
Speaker 1: like I said, for folks to continue with community building

1162
01:10:44,320 --> 01:10:48,280
Speaker 1: and keeping our fighting for immigrant rights and keeping our

1163
01:10:48,320 --> 01:10:53,519
Speaker 1: mission envision at the forefront of whatever event or space

1164
01:10:53,600 --> 01:11:00,479
Speaker 1: you create. Yeah, um, yes, absolutely, But I think also

1165
01:11:00,680 --> 01:11:07,160
Speaker 1: just being mindful of taking in like, um potential, Um,

1166
01:11:07,200 --> 01:11:09,840
Speaker 1: what would you call it? If I'm a mentor, they

1167
01:11:09,880 --> 01:11:16,880
Speaker 1: are a SENTI mentee, Yes, I am about the fenties right,

1168
01:11:17,160 --> 01:11:19,720
Speaker 1: because I think it's important. It's important, you know, And

1169
01:11:19,760 --> 01:11:23,479
Speaker 1: I've thought about this as I continue to transition now

1170
01:11:23,520 --> 01:11:27,320
Speaker 1: into my going at stages, um, And I am happy

1171
01:11:27,360 --> 01:11:29,160
Speaker 1: about it because I'm like, yeah, girl, I can't do

1172
01:11:29,240 --> 01:11:31,800
Speaker 1: a twenty four hour rager, Like I will join you

1173
01:11:31,840 --> 01:11:34,280
Speaker 1: for five hours and I'll be like, okay, the way

1174
01:11:34,320 --> 01:11:36,680
Speaker 1: my back and my knees are set up, Um, I

1175
01:11:36,720 --> 01:11:39,799
Speaker 1: need to go to sleep right now, you know. So

1176
01:11:40,600 --> 01:11:43,599
Speaker 1: I'm consistently thinking about that, and also within my own

1177
01:11:43,680 --> 01:11:47,280
Speaker 1: DJ career, right, Like, unfortunately, and this is this is

1178
01:11:47,320 --> 01:11:49,720
Speaker 1: some things that we still have to work towards, right, Like,

1179
01:11:49,760 --> 01:11:51,559
Speaker 1: you could be a male DJ and be in the

1180
01:11:51,600 --> 01:11:56,080
Speaker 1: business for like freaking forty years and still kill it. Right.

1181
01:11:56,400 --> 01:12:00,040
Speaker 1: You could be a warman DJ and maybe be in

1182
01:12:00,040 --> 01:12:01,960
Speaker 1: the business if you're really good and if you practice

1183
01:12:02,000 --> 01:12:05,280
Speaker 1: your technique whatever. But it also, unfortunately, and it's so

1184
01:12:05,360 --> 01:12:07,800
Speaker 1: messed up to say or it's so messed up to

1185
01:12:07,880 --> 01:12:10,439
Speaker 1: even like acknowledge it. Right, A lot of it does

1186
01:12:10,479 --> 01:12:12,439
Speaker 1: rely on your looks, right, and a lot of it

1187
01:12:12,520 --> 01:12:16,400
Speaker 1: when you become like you know, a certain age or

1188
01:12:16,400 --> 01:12:19,000
Speaker 1: when you become a mother, right, Like all of these

1189
01:12:19,000 --> 01:12:24,400
Speaker 1: things Unfortunately, um they're they're factors into how you get booked, right. Um,

1190
01:12:24,479 --> 01:12:26,240
Speaker 1: So for me, I've also thought about it. I know,

1191
01:12:26,280 --> 01:12:28,559
Speaker 1: I'm not going to be in the industry, like, you

1192
01:12:28,600 --> 01:12:31,320
Speaker 1: know until I'm fifty. Girl, I don't want to be

1193
01:12:31,400 --> 01:12:33,479
Speaker 1: up in the club until I'm fifty. I'm just telling

1194
01:12:33,520 --> 01:12:36,000
Speaker 1: you and been and those that's where i mean shout

1195
01:12:36,040 --> 01:12:39,360
Speaker 1: out to to you, I guess and your bachelor life whatever.

1196
01:12:39,479 --> 01:12:41,360
Speaker 1: I don't know, that's just not the type of life

1197
01:12:41,439 --> 01:12:44,080
Speaker 1: I'm trying to live. But you know, I'm also thinking

1198
01:12:44,120 --> 01:12:47,080
Speaker 1: about how am I gonna, like, you know, empower the

1199
01:12:47,160 --> 01:12:51,400
Speaker 1: next generation of women DJs A women producers of women

1200
01:12:51,600 --> 01:12:55,240
Speaker 1: entrepreneurs Because all of these like resources and all of

1201
01:12:55,280 --> 01:12:57,200
Speaker 1: the knowledge that I have in my brain, it's not

1202
01:12:57,240 --> 01:12:59,080
Speaker 1: just for me to like keep it up here, right,

1203
01:12:59,080 --> 01:13:01,519
Speaker 1: and it's my duty as a woman of color to

1204
01:13:01,640 --> 01:13:04,680
Speaker 1: pass it down to the next generation to be like,

1205
01:13:04,920 --> 01:13:07,160
Speaker 1: don't let these motherfuckers think that they can try and

1206
01:13:07,240 --> 01:13:09,240
Speaker 1: run some game on you. Girl. Know, this is what

1207
01:13:09,280 --> 01:13:11,240
Speaker 1: we're gonna do. I'm not gonna be there at the

1208
01:13:11,280 --> 01:13:13,080
Speaker 1: meeting with you, but this is what how I'm going

1209
01:13:13,120 --> 01:13:15,280
Speaker 1: to coach you so that you can go in there

1210
01:13:15,280 --> 01:13:17,439
Speaker 1: and fight your own fights. Right. So it's about that

1211
01:13:17,520 --> 01:13:21,519
Speaker 1: resource sharing. It's about making those intentional connections with folks

1212
01:13:22,320 --> 01:13:26,320
Speaker 1: now that you mentioned that. Yeah, for example, being an

1213
01:13:26,400 --> 01:13:31,080
Speaker 1: event producer, like I can share everything I've learned from

1214
01:13:31,120 --> 01:13:33,880
Speaker 1: from you know, like dealing with each and every venue,

1215
01:13:34,080 --> 01:13:37,599
Speaker 1: like how to set up your emails, what kind of

1216
01:13:37,600 --> 01:13:39,559
Speaker 1: details you need to send, what kind of questions you

1217
01:13:39,600 --> 01:13:42,720
Speaker 1: need to send? Uh, you know, what kind of responses

1218
01:13:42,760 --> 01:13:46,559
Speaker 1: you need over through email or over emails, so you

1219
01:13:46,600 --> 01:13:48,400
Speaker 1: can you know, go back and say, hey, this is

1220
01:13:48,439 --> 01:13:50,360
Speaker 1: what you wrote and this is what I'm expecting. Right,

1221
01:13:50,400 --> 01:13:53,400
Speaker 1: So just in general, like how to have the initial

1222
01:13:53,439 --> 01:13:57,640
Speaker 1: conversations of booking the event, um the d how to

1223
01:13:58,240 --> 01:14:01,599
Speaker 1: you know, send over the details, or how to book talent,

1224
01:14:01,880 --> 01:14:06,240
Speaker 1: or how to just in general, like I can, I

1225
01:14:06,280 --> 01:14:09,080
Speaker 1: can sure everything that I've learned so far as an

1226
01:14:09,080 --> 01:14:12,160
Speaker 1: event producer, maybe right a manual or something, or if

1227
01:14:12,200 --> 01:14:15,120
Speaker 1: you are wanting to set up an event and you

1228
01:14:15,160 --> 01:14:18,600
Speaker 1: need guidance, I'm always dound to share whatever knowledge I

1229
01:14:18,640 --> 01:14:22,559
Speaker 1: already have. So yeah, I can do that. Thank you,

1230
01:14:22,640 --> 01:14:25,880
Speaker 1: Thank you for that question. Excellent, Yeah, we got more

1231
01:14:25,920 --> 01:14:31,880
Speaker 1: questions over here. Yes, why why is it taking so

1232
01:14:31,920 --> 01:14:39,000
Speaker 1: long to do from National City specifically, girl, I was

1233
01:14:39,120 --> 01:14:42,599
Speaker 1: there this morning, Like I literally drove from San Diego

1234
01:14:42,720 --> 01:14:44,559
Speaker 1: to a week here and I got here like at three.

1235
01:14:44,600 --> 01:14:46,679
Speaker 1: I was like, let me take a quick fifteen minute

1236
01:14:46,760 --> 01:14:49,439
Speaker 1: nap and let me do this. But you know what,

1237
01:14:49,520 --> 01:14:51,960
Speaker 1: we've actually been trying to get to San Diego for

1238
01:14:51,960 --> 01:14:54,599
Speaker 1: a minute. We tried, and it goes along with like,

1239
01:14:54,680 --> 01:14:57,719
Speaker 1: you know, we reach out to venues and once again

1240
01:14:57,920 --> 01:15:00,960
Speaker 1: they underestimate us or they don't know much about us,

1241
01:15:01,000 --> 01:15:03,599
Speaker 1: and they're like, no, this isn't something that we're interested in.

1242
01:15:03,800 --> 01:15:06,160
Speaker 1: But there was a venue that we actually reached out

1243
01:15:06,160 --> 01:15:08,559
Speaker 1: to they never got back to us. But if you're

1244
01:15:08,600 --> 01:15:11,080
Speaker 1: interested in having us in your town, it's just a

1245
01:15:11,120 --> 01:15:14,599
Speaker 1: matter of reaching out to us and helping us find

1246
01:15:14,640 --> 01:15:18,880
Speaker 1: that venue to have our event. But yeah, we we

1247
01:15:18,960 --> 01:15:21,439
Speaker 1: already try to say if you build it, they will come.

1248
01:15:22,000 --> 01:15:24,479
Speaker 1: And honestly, I don't think the venue is all what

1249
01:15:24,520 --> 01:15:27,280
Speaker 1: the hell is up? But um, you know, and honestly,

1250
01:15:27,360 --> 01:15:30,120
Speaker 1: I'm also gonna be honest, I don't think we've tried

1251
01:15:30,280 --> 01:15:33,240
Speaker 1: like super hard because our emphasis has also been on

1252
01:15:33,680 --> 01:15:37,360
Speaker 1: securing the venues that have or like securing or making

1253
01:15:37,439 --> 01:15:40,800
Speaker 1: sure that the shows run as smooth as they can.

1254
01:15:40,840 --> 01:15:42,920
Speaker 1: Go to the venues that have said yes, you know

1255
01:15:42,960 --> 01:15:44,800
Speaker 1: what I mean. So we're not gonna sit there and

1256
01:15:44,800 --> 01:15:47,360
Speaker 1: be like, oh my god, please there's going too and

1257
01:15:47,520 --> 01:15:49,960
Speaker 1: I please let us in. No, we're not gonna do that.

1258
01:15:51,120 --> 01:15:53,519
Speaker 1: Go asked to what venues we reach out to, like

1259
01:15:53,720 --> 01:15:56,400
Speaker 1: especially you know, gentrification is a real issue, right, and

1260
01:15:56,439 --> 01:16:00,160
Speaker 1: so we are very careful to go into place is

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01:16:00,160 --> 01:16:03,280
Speaker 1: that I have been gentrified and our own white by

1262
01:16:03,280 --> 01:16:06,920
Speaker 1: white people. Right. So if you have a great venue

1263
01:16:07,200 --> 01:16:09,840
Speaker 1: that we should have like in mind, that we should

1264
01:16:09,880 --> 01:16:14,400
Speaker 1: have in our you know, go along with our community guidelines,

1265
01:16:14,439 --> 01:16:18,240
Speaker 1: then let us know. But we're very critical as to

1266
01:16:18,240 --> 01:16:21,120
Speaker 1: where we want to take too. We'll be in San Diego,

1267
01:16:21,160 --> 01:16:30,000
Speaker 1: soun though. I promise you that. First of all, y'all

1268
01:16:30,000 --> 01:16:33,280
Speaker 1: look super badass and really amazing, So thank you all

1269
01:16:33,439 --> 01:16:36,599
Speaker 1: for coming here and showing up. Um. So my question

1270
01:16:36,760 --> 01:16:40,599
Speaker 1: is you were talking about how, um, when you would

1271
01:16:40,640 --> 01:16:43,360
Speaker 1: work with like white men specifically and how they would

1272
01:16:43,400 --> 01:16:46,479
Speaker 1: like underestimate you. But then when you guys would kind

1273
01:16:46,479 --> 01:16:50,360
Speaker 1: of bring out all your people and business and basically

1274
01:16:50,400 --> 01:16:52,680
Speaker 1: money that has a lot of power, So like, how

1275
01:16:52,760 --> 01:16:54,880
Speaker 1: would you. How did you guys feel kind of like

1276
01:16:55,400 --> 01:16:58,800
Speaker 1: walking into that power now when you guys are reaching

1277
01:16:58,840 --> 01:17:03,960
Speaker 1: out to new venues. It's something that for me personally,

1278
01:17:04,040 --> 01:17:07,439
Speaker 1: I'm still getting used to. Um. Like, we just had

1279
01:17:07,439 --> 01:17:09,680
Speaker 1: our two year anniversary at the Globe and it was

1280
01:17:09,720 --> 01:17:13,040
Speaker 1: a successful night, right, and so we're we need to

1281
01:17:13,080 --> 01:17:15,639
Speaker 1: have a post production meeting where I need to prep

1282
01:17:15,680 --> 01:17:18,639
Speaker 1: exactly knowing that we had a successful event. I need

1283
01:17:18,680 --> 01:17:21,360
Speaker 1: to prepare myself to like go in there and own

1284
01:17:21,400 --> 01:17:24,040
Speaker 1: that and say, hey, like if we're gonna come back

1285
01:17:24,080 --> 01:17:27,080
Speaker 1: to your venue and have another Comerton, this is exactly

1286
01:17:27,080 --> 01:17:30,320
Speaker 1: what I need. Otherwise it might not happen. Norms, do

1287
01:17:30,320 --> 01:17:33,800
Speaker 1: you have a post production meeting with the venue? We

1288
01:17:33,920 --> 01:17:37,320
Speaker 1: try to. Oh, yeah, we have to have to. You know,

1289
01:17:37,400 --> 01:17:39,880
Speaker 1: I go in there and I go with like the

1290
01:17:39,920 --> 01:17:43,320
Speaker 1: print out of the bar, my notes, things I didn't like,

1291
01:17:43,680 --> 01:17:46,480
Speaker 1: things that went wrong, things that could have been avoided,

1292
01:17:47,160 --> 01:17:51,640
Speaker 1: and go through them, have them basically, have them explained

1293
01:17:51,680 --> 01:17:56,120
Speaker 1: to us why things didn't work out, how we expected

1294
01:17:56,160 --> 01:17:59,000
Speaker 1: them to work out. You have to write that down.

1295
01:17:59,120 --> 01:18:02,919
Speaker 1: You have to, you really have, especially with these venues

1296
01:18:03,080 --> 01:18:05,760
Speaker 1: that have all of the this type of cloud, like

1297
01:18:05,960 --> 01:18:10,839
Speaker 1: we're not gonna ask the billiards, hey, guys please, you know, honestly,

1298
01:18:10,920 --> 01:18:14,240
Speaker 1: like the Senoras are probably like in their sixties fifty

1299
01:18:14,280 --> 01:18:17,800
Speaker 1: serving alcohol, you know, and that's legit one of the

1300
01:18:17,880 --> 01:18:21,280
Speaker 1: venues that has treated us with more customer service. And

1301
01:18:21,360 --> 01:18:25,639
Speaker 1: we've gotten at these protidures once because you know, we're

1302
01:18:25,680 --> 01:18:29,360
Speaker 1: dealing with community for folks versus dealing with you know,

1303
01:18:29,640 --> 01:18:32,840
Speaker 1: people that think they're on some stuff. And you're like, dude, really,

1304
01:18:32,920 --> 01:18:35,440
Speaker 1: I've been doing this for longer than you've been alive basically,

1305
01:18:35,880 --> 01:18:39,280
Speaker 1: but yes, it's really important to have post production so

1306
01:18:39,320 --> 01:18:42,559
Speaker 1: that when they come with like whatever rebuttal they have,

1307
01:18:42,680 --> 01:18:45,679
Speaker 1: you already have all your facts in ordering your yeah,

1308
01:18:45,800 --> 01:18:47,400
Speaker 1: and you know, at the end of the day, at

1309
01:18:47,400 --> 01:18:48,640
Speaker 1: the end of the night, they're I was like, oh

1310
01:18:48,680 --> 01:18:52,040
Speaker 1: my god, this is great. I have not been into

1311
01:18:52,040 --> 01:18:55,000
Speaker 1: a venue where they don't fail to offer offer us

1312
01:18:55,120 --> 01:18:59,759
Speaker 1: residency please come back every month, And we're like, um, please,

1313
01:18:59,800 --> 01:19:02,799
Speaker 1: We're apply to our email about a post production meeting

1314
01:19:02,920 --> 01:19:07,080
Speaker 1: because that is going to be the deciding factor exactly.

1315
01:19:07,240 --> 01:19:09,800
Speaker 1: It's I mean post production meetings. It's a huge it's

1316
01:19:09,800 --> 01:19:13,640
Speaker 1: a new concept for us, right, but they're very important

1317
01:19:13,720 --> 01:19:17,320
Speaker 1: because especially if they if they share that they love

1318
01:19:17,400 --> 01:19:19,240
Speaker 1: the event and they want to have you back. Oh

1319
01:19:19,320 --> 01:19:21,800
Speaker 1: hell yeah, this is I'm I'm the one in power

1320
01:19:21,840 --> 01:19:25,599
Speaker 1: right now. Court, Fine, let's we could have an event.

1321
01:19:25,640 --> 01:19:28,080
Speaker 1: But this is exactly what I'm gonna what we're gonna

1322
01:19:28,120 --> 01:19:33,000
Speaker 1: need in order to have another Comyaton at the venue where. Yeah,

1323
01:19:33,160 --> 01:19:36,360
Speaker 1: we've had similar experiences, nowhere near to the scale of

1324
01:19:36,360 --> 01:19:38,599
Speaker 1: the Kumaton collective and the parties you throw, but we've

1325
01:19:38,600 --> 01:19:40,160
Speaker 1: done a couple of parties here and there in a

1326
01:19:40,160 --> 01:19:44,400
Speaker 1: couple of parties, hold out parties, a couple of sold parties, right,

1327
01:19:45,400 --> 01:19:48,040
Speaker 1: But it's the same thing, Like the venue owners are

1328
01:19:48,080 --> 01:19:50,640
Speaker 1: always white. And what's so wild to me is I

1329
01:19:50,680 --> 01:19:53,880
Speaker 1: think of nightlife in Los Angeles and I think of

1330
01:19:53,920 --> 01:19:55,800
Speaker 1: people of color. I think of women of color, Like

1331
01:19:55,840 --> 01:19:57,799
Speaker 1: you are not going to go to a popping party

1332
01:19:58,280 --> 01:20:00,719
Speaker 1: and it's only straight white guys there. Does not happen,

1333
01:20:00,760 --> 01:20:04,360
Speaker 1: that does not exist, does not exist. Like, if it's

1334
01:20:04,360 --> 01:20:06,760
Speaker 1: a good party, there are people of color there, there

1335
01:20:06,760 --> 01:20:08,760
Speaker 1: are women there, there are queer people there. So the

1336
01:20:08,800 --> 01:20:11,760
Speaker 1: fact that, like the nightlife is created by us, but

1337
01:20:12,120 --> 01:20:15,000
Speaker 1: fighting to create the nightlife is so wild to me.

1338
01:20:15,720 --> 01:20:19,080
Speaker 1: That's another conversation for another day, But there were more questions.

1339
01:20:20,439 --> 01:20:25,760
Speaker 1: Malina's got a question over here. Over there, Molina of

1340
01:20:25,760 --> 01:20:33,840
Speaker 1: Orange is the new Black? Mostly kill you. I love

1341
01:20:33,880 --> 01:20:40,840
Speaker 1: you all, we love you to thank you, So I

1342
01:20:40,880 --> 01:20:45,200
Speaker 1: want to know. I'm let's let's create some manifestation right here.

1343
01:20:45,479 --> 01:20:51,000
Speaker 1: What's like a wish list for a party in the future,

1344
01:20:51,360 --> 01:20:53,040
Speaker 1: and it could be the very near future, whether it

1345
01:20:53,040 --> 01:20:55,920
Speaker 1: has to do with guests or or the type of

1346
01:20:56,000 --> 01:20:59,120
Speaker 1: music you have, or something specific for the venue or

1347
01:20:59,400 --> 01:21:03,000
Speaker 1: or giveaway days or like you know, I insert myself

1348
01:21:03,040 --> 01:21:05,840
Speaker 1: in there somehow, you know, something like that. UM, also

1349
01:21:06,000 --> 01:21:08,080
Speaker 1: for y'all, because I've been to your life events and

1350
01:21:08,120 --> 01:21:10,840
Speaker 1: they're popping, so like like just I want to get

1351
01:21:10,880 --> 01:21:13,439
Speaker 1: excited and like look forward to another popping party. What

1352
01:21:13,520 --> 01:21:16,040
Speaker 1: are some some things on your wish list that you

1353
01:21:16,080 --> 01:21:19,200
Speaker 1: want to have for me? I would say, I want

1354
01:21:19,240 --> 01:21:23,160
Speaker 1: to have more funding for cumaton UM. You know, putting

1355
01:21:23,200 --> 01:21:27,120
Speaker 1: on a whole production UM, it takes a lot of

1356
01:21:27,160 --> 01:21:30,200
Speaker 1: work and it takes funds mostly because we do come

1357
01:21:30,240 --> 01:21:33,720
Speaker 1: from a labor organizing background, and whoever we do bring

1358
01:21:33,800 --> 01:21:37,960
Speaker 1: onto our show, we pay living wages. We definitely do

1359
01:21:38,040 --> 01:21:41,880
Speaker 1: not believe in labor free labor and so we want

1360
01:21:41,920 --> 01:21:45,680
Speaker 1: to pay everyone for their labor. However, sometimes we're very

1361
01:21:45,720 --> 01:21:50,120
Speaker 1: limited with our with our funding and um um so

1362
01:21:50,320 --> 01:21:52,840
Speaker 1: I would I wish we had more funding to go

1363
01:21:52,880 --> 01:21:56,719
Speaker 1: to different more cities, especially to be able to travel

1364
01:21:56,720 --> 01:21:59,280
Speaker 1: to different cities with the whole collective and not just

1365
01:22:00,080 --> 01:22:06,440
Speaker 1: few of us because of funding. Um what else? Um?

1366
01:22:06,479 --> 01:22:09,320
Speaker 1: I mean Ultimately, like we mentioned, I would love to

1367
01:22:09,360 --> 01:22:14,080
Speaker 1: travel outside the US and bring freakington to Mexico, to Wahaka,

1368
01:22:14,120 --> 01:22:21,519
Speaker 1: to you know, my hometown. Um. But hopefully it happens. Hopefully, Yeah, dude,

1369
01:22:21,520 --> 01:22:24,160
Speaker 1: the dreams for Kumieton are big. Like I don't think

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01:22:24,160 --> 01:22:28,200
Speaker 1: they're gonna sob at a fifteen thousand capacity venue, you know,

1371
01:22:32,760 --> 01:22:36,640
Speaker 1: but probably not as like stress out hopefully Right, We're

1372
01:22:36,680 --> 01:22:40,240
Speaker 1: gonna sit it there enjoying the backstage where everybody look

1373
01:22:40,720 --> 01:22:46,200
Speaker 1: I am seeing maybe I don't know, go you know,

1374
01:22:47,680 --> 01:22:51,120
Speaker 1: you know, maybe our children's out there and seeing I

1375
01:22:51,160 --> 01:22:52,880
Speaker 1: don't know, being cute, you know what I mean. But

1376
01:22:52,920 --> 01:22:56,440
Speaker 1: I think definitely the hopes and the dreams for Kumieton

1377
01:22:56,520 --> 01:23:00,759
Speaker 1: are big. I envision Cumieton as a festival, not only

1378
01:23:01,000 --> 01:23:04,360
Speaker 1: you know where it's I mean a party is great

1379
01:23:04,400 --> 01:23:06,519
Speaker 1: doing all of that is great, but again, like a

1380
01:23:06,600 --> 01:23:10,959
Speaker 1: festival that is conscious about the community struggles, a festival

1381
01:23:11,000 --> 01:23:15,840
Speaker 1: that is conscious and wary of liketa culture makers and

1382
01:23:15,840 --> 01:23:20,000
Speaker 1: and shift theres. There's afropunk afro punk right that do

1383
01:23:20,320 --> 01:23:24,360
Speaker 1: and hire all black folks, right, and I think that's

1384
01:23:24,400 --> 01:23:28,160
Speaker 1: the most beautiful freaking thing and they're unapologetic about it.

1385
01:23:28,200 --> 01:23:30,320
Speaker 1: And that's what I want to do with our communities

1386
01:23:30,360 --> 01:23:34,120
Speaker 1: as well. Continue to create these platforms because again, the

1387
01:23:34,200 --> 01:23:37,760
Speaker 1: talent is there. Unfortunately, our talent doesn't get booked or

1388
01:23:37,800 --> 01:23:40,080
Speaker 1: gets overlooked a lot of the time. So that is

1389
01:23:40,120 --> 01:23:43,680
Speaker 1: my biggest and realist freaking goal for Kumiaton to be

1390
01:23:43,760 --> 01:23:47,120
Speaker 1: able to take it, you know, not only nationwide because

1391
01:23:47,720 --> 01:23:51,639
Speaker 1: that's checked um, but also take it like wll why

1392
01:23:51,720 --> 01:23:54,360
Speaker 1: why not? Yeah? I would also want to add, I

1393
01:23:54,360 --> 01:23:58,080
Speaker 1: mean the Coumaton Collective is essentially an art collective and

1394
01:23:58,320 --> 01:24:01,400
Speaker 1: of our collective of artists, right, so I would want

1395
01:24:01,400 --> 01:24:04,840
Speaker 1: to see don't having an office space where we have

1396
01:24:05,520 --> 01:24:10,360
Speaker 1: space to work an actual printer to owning our own venue,

1397
01:24:10,720 --> 01:24:14,080
Speaker 1: owning our own venue. We've talked about this, We talked

1398
01:24:14,120 --> 01:24:17,360
Speaker 1: about being able to print stuff from like our office

1399
01:24:17,360 --> 01:24:21,040
Speaker 1: instead about the printing is a part it to work

1400
01:24:21,080 --> 01:24:24,400
Speaker 1: and printing it out, you know, um have you know,

1401
01:24:24,640 --> 01:24:28,839
Speaker 1: we also discuss, you know, providing scholarships to other undocumented folks,

1402
01:24:28,880 --> 01:24:31,760
Speaker 1: providing space for other folks to come in and you know,

1403
01:24:31,840 --> 01:24:36,519
Speaker 1: like uh, work on their art. So yeah, I hope

1404
01:24:36,560 --> 01:24:38,960
Speaker 1: we get to that. I wish we get to that.

1405
01:24:39,120 --> 01:24:42,000
Speaker 1: We will, we will. We will buck an office space

1406
01:24:42,040 --> 01:24:44,160
Speaker 1: as beautiful as the wing where we can have other

1407
01:24:44,200 --> 01:24:46,280
Speaker 1: people to come in and we have other events, you know,

1408
01:24:46,360 --> 01:24:50,599
Speaker 1: not just party night you know night parties. But that's

1409
01:24:50,600 --> 01:24:54,479
Speaker 1: the goal. If you know, funders ill at your girls,

1410
01:24:54,800 --> 01:24:59,280
Speaker 1: Funders pay undocumented artists. Okay, women of color. Absolutely, thank

1411
01:24:59,280 --> 01:25:03,280
Speaker 1: you Molina for question, Melina Bobadi. Everyone shout out, so

1412
01:25:03,320 --> 01:25:10,920
Speaker 1: I think we have time for two more questions. Hi,

1413
01:25:11,000 --> 01:25:14,280
Speaker 1: every buddy. My name is Jacqueline. I am originally from

1414
01:25:14,280 --> 01:25:17,879
Speaker 1: El Paso, Texas, born and raised. My mom is from Chihuama.

1415
01:25:18,360 --> 01:25:20,439
Speaker 1: I was going to say, I want to facilitate a

1416
01:25:20,720 --> 01:25:24,080
Speaker 1: panel in El Paso, Texas. If you're open to it,

1417
01:25:24,479 --> 01:25:27,200
Speaker 1: I would say, let's go party and Watts, But I

1418
01:25:27,280 --> 01:25:31,200
Speaker 1: don't know if that's about that right now. UM, we

1419
01:25:31,240 --> 01:25:33,080
Speaker 1: could figure it out, but I definitely want to connect

1420
01:25:33,160 --> 01:25:35,680
Speaker 1: and see if we can facilitate a panel in my

1421
01:25:35,720 --> 01:25:39,400
Speaker 1: hometown and see if we can brainstorm for some funding.

1422
01:25:39,439 --> 01:25:41,400
Speaker 1: I know that there are ways with you know, writing

1423
01:25:41,439 --> 01:25:44,599
Speaker 1: up letters and sending emails and reaching out to a

1424
01:25:44,640 --> 01:25:48,200
Speaker 1: monumental amount of people. So I'll connect with you after.

1425
01:25:48,360 --> 01:25:50,080
Speaker 1: But that was just, you know, something I wanted to

1426
01:25:50,120 --> 01:25:52,559
Speaker 1: share and see if we can brainstorm a little bit

1427
01:25:52,600 --> 01:25:56,000
Speaker 1: about El Paso. Thank you. We can go to wattas

1428
01:25:56,000 --> 01:25:58,320
Speaker 1: we just can't come back or I'm just saying that's right.

1429
01:25:58,479 --> 01:26:03,240
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I'm trying to come back. I love it.

1430
01:26:03,280 --> 01:26:19,639
Speaker 1: Thank you. One more question. Final question from Hi. I'm Valerie. UM.

1431
01:26:19,640 --> 01:26:21,280
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for the work that you're doing

1432
01:26:21,280 --> 01:26:24,200
Speaker 1: and the ways that you guys are taking up space. UM.

1433
01:26:24,240 --> 01:26:27,559
Speaker 1: It's really lovely to see. And something that kept popping

1434
01:26:27,560 --> 01:26:29,360
Speaker 1: in my mind is like, what these parties that you're

1435
01:26:29,360 --> 01:26:34,240
Speaker 1: throwing and UM, do you guys ever worry about being

1436
01:26:34,320 --> 01:26:38,599
Speaker 1: targets of UM? I don't know ice agents or anything

1437
01:26:38,680 --> 01:26:41,680
Speaker 1: like that. I just wonder what that's like. How do

1438
01:26:41,720 --> 01:26:48,320
Speaker 1: you create a safe space? Does that ever cross your mind? Yeah? Absolutely,

1439
01:26:48,360 --> 01:26:51,559
Speaker 1: I think that's always you know, as an undocumented immigrant,

1440
01:26:51,600 --> 01:26:54,479
Speaker 1: you can't escape that reality no matter how hard you try,

1441
01:26:54,560 --> 01:26:58,840
Speaker 1: no matter how you know bomb the music is, no

1442
01:26:58,880 --> 01:27:01,519
Speaker 1: matter how late you you can't escape the fact that

1443
01:27:01,560 --> 01:27:04,840
Speaker 1: you're still undocumented, even if you're lit, even if you're

1444
01:27:04,880 --> 01:27:08,320
Speaker 1: last in thought. Right, So that has definitely come about,

1445
01:27:08,360 --> 01:27:10,360
Speaker 1: and it's one of those things where people are like, well,

1446
01:27:10,400 --> 01:27:13,720
Speaker 1: why are you also vocal about being undocumented? And for us,

1447
01:27:13,760 --> 01:27:17,400
Speaker 1: it's important because you know, that's how we show our

1448
01:27:17,439 --> 01:27:21,160
Speaker 1: resistance and our resilience in this country, right, because that's

1449
01:27:21,200 --> 01:27:23,120
Speaker 1: what they want. They want us to shut up, they

1450
01:27:23,200 --> 01:27:26,000
Speaker 1: want us to be afraid. They want us not to

1451
01:27:26,160 --> 01:27:31,040
Speaker 1: be as like active, as hustling, as you know, just

1452
01:27:31,240 --> 01:27:34,320
Speaker 1: powerful as we are. But in you know, when we

1453
01:27:34,400 --> 01:27:39,439
Speaker 1: do that, we are being untruthful to ourselves, right, Like,

1454
01:27:39,560 --> 01:27:43,360
Speaker 1: undocumented people are some of the most powerful, resilient people

1455
01:27:43,439 --> 01:27:46,280
Speaker 1: that I've ever met in my entire life. Right, some

1456
01:27:46,400 --> 01:27:49,400
Speaker 1: of the people that have been able to handle, you know,

1457
01:27:49,600 --> 01:27:54,759
Speaker 1: whatever comes their way even before, and being undocumented was cool,

1458
01:27:54,920 --> 01:27:58,040
Speaker 1: right even before the whole dream or movement, the whole

1459
01:27:58,240 --> 01:28:01,040
Speaker 1: you know, immigrant rights movement not there. They're they've been

1460
01:28:01,160 --> 01:28:05,360
Speaker 1: undocumented people here even before, and they've been existing, right,

1461
01:28:05,439 --> 01:28:08,919
Speaker 1: They've existed back then. We're existing right now. We'll continue

1462
01:28:08,920 --> 01:28:11,280
Speaker 1: to exist after that. So I think it's very important

1463
01:28:11,320 --> 01:28:15,080
Speaker 1: to also, I we have a duty right to the

1464
01:28:15,160 --> 01:28:18,760
Speaker 1: younger generations to kind of let them know that we

1465
01:28:18,840 --> 01:28:22,439
Speaker 1: are still you know, we've been thriving with them without DACA.

1466
01:28:22,520 --> 01:28:26,479
Speaker 1: We were that generation that actively fought for deferred action,

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Speaker 1: that tied ourselves to freaking ladders and like got in

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Speaker 1: front of us is got arrested. We were that generation

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Speaker 1: that did all of that, right, and because we did

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Speaker 1: all of that, we were able to gain so much

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Speaker 1: from you know, this administration, right, maybe not this one,

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Speaker 1: but in the previous one, right, we were able to

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Speaker 1: gain so much. So for us, right, it's really important

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Speaker 1: to continue to uplift that no matter what. You know,

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Speaker 1: like we're living in in crazy dire ass times, but

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Speaker 1: you know, these are the times that it's a specially

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Speaker 1: important for people, especially artists, people with any type of

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Speaker 1: platform to speak up and speak out. You know, Um,

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna sit here and say like I'm always

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Speaker 1: unafraid all the time, no bitch, I'm a documented and

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Speaker 1: sometimes afraid, right, But you know, at the end of

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Speaker 1: the day, I know that my empowerment and my resilience

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Speaker 1: and you know, all of that is so crucial not

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Speaker 1: only to my being but to those around me and

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Speaker 1: those who are looking you know for I mean, whether

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Speaker 1: we like it or not. You know, we do have

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Speaker 1: some young ones who also look up to us. And

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to be over here being on no

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Speaker 1: punk stuff, right, I'm gonna be like not, dude, Like

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Speaker 1: this is what we gotta do. These are the cards

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Speaker 1: that we were dealt, but we're still going to continue

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Speaker 1: to thrive. Let's thank you. Yeah, I mean this this

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Speaker 1: concludes our night. Um, I just want to thank so

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Speaker 1: much love and admiration and thanks to Sizzle and Norms

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Speaker 1: just for everything that you are, your talents, everything, your genius,

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Speaker 1: your brilliance. Thank you, um, and thank you to the

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Speaker 1: Wing for hosting tonight's conversation. Thanks to all of y'all

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Speaker 1: for coming for sitting with us. We'll be around for

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Speaker 1: a little bit or look up at our radio. Thank

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Speaker 1: you everybody. Thank you all. This is actually my first

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Speaker 1: speaking engagement, so I was really nervous, but I'm good now. Hey,

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Speaker 1: get it up for Norms. Thank you all. You can

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Speaker 1: follow us at and Underscore l A or at Norm's

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Speaker 1: level hucking Out, or at Sizzle zero zero seven on Instagram,

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Speaker 1: which is basically our business profile. So hey, thank you all,