Ushka

imm rights organizer; DJ. thoughts on: global south, music culture, sri lanka, race, (im)migration. vast interests. www.soundcloud.com/djushka ; www.djushka.com

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Save the Date! We're playing at the Lincoln Center Out of Doors festival! 

Charanjit Singh (NY Debut)

DJ Ushka (Dutty Artz)

Baiana Play Som

DJ Ripley (Dutty Artz)

Sunday, July 27, 2014 5:00 PM

Roslyn and Elliot Jaffe Drive

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Frantz Fanon - Black Skin, White Masks Advertisement (1967)

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This!!

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Feministing Jamz: DJ Ushka on music, migrations, and cultural appropriation

New Ushka interview with @veroconplatanos on @feministing! My thoughts on feminism, music, migration, and cultural appropriation. 

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broken english

when my mother struggles to spell a word in english I want to break the entire language into little pieces so the edges of these letters will stop cutting her — aysha via Diaspora Defiance (via decolonizehistory)

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We deejayed at #cumbiasazo in Chicago on March 29th to 850 beautiful people. Big ups Chicago deejay/artist fam for putting on this amazing event.

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DJ Beto and I will be taking over Mixpak Radio while Jubilee is at SXSW this week. Tune in at www.radiolily.com on Tuesday, March 11th from 6-8pm. 

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THURSDAY ,MARCH 13TH, 2014

Facebook link: http://on.fb.me/1lmCnLq

:: Digital Cumbia :: Future Dancehall :: Global Bass :: Special Guests: ISA-GT (Live Performance w/DJ Set- Etoro Records- London-Colombia) www.isagt.com Official Album Release After-Party for: Alsarah & The Nubatones http://www.alsarah.com/ and: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!DJ USHKA's BIRTHDAY BASH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Celebrate on the dance-floor!!! Residents: DJ BETO (iBomba) & DJ USHKA (iBomba / Dutty Artz) www.soundcloud.com/ibombanyc @Bembe 81 South 6th Street. BKLYN near Bedford (L) or Marcy (JMZ) GRATIS !! ISA-GT is a Colombian music-centric artist working out of East London’s electronic music scene. Drawing her influences from Cumbia, house, Baltimore, Champeta, Baile funk, Kuduro- and everything in between. Isa has become a go-to in London for Latin music, as well as world artists in the EU/UK. She has done guest vocals and co-productions in conjunction with musicians such as: Toy Selectah, Joao Brasil, Dutch Rhythm Combo, Crookers, to name a few. ALSARAH & THE NUBATONES: Alsarah, is a Sudanese born singer, songwriter and ethnomusicologist. Born in the capital city of Khartoum, where she spent the first 8 years of her life, she relocated to Taez, Yemen with her family to escape the ever stifling regime in her native country.  Now residing in Brooklyn, NY, she is a self-proclaimed practitioner of East-African retro-pop. Working on various projects, she most recently has been working with The Nile Project and was featured on their debut release, Aswan (named 1 of the top 5 must hear International albums of 2013 by NPR). She has also collaborated with French producer Débruit on the album Aljwal, released this past November via Soundway Records. She will be releasing her debut album with her band Alsarah & the Nubatones in the spring of 2014.

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Santo Padre and Ushka co-moderate a panel featuring members of argentine-mexican tropipunk band, Kumbia Queers, and Uproot Andy + Geko Jones of Que Bajo?! The panel explores the spread of cumbia, queer women in music, latinidad, and more. 

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new mix!

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Always Foreign, Always Brown

Crown Heights-based activist DJ Ushka talks about growing up in Thailand, gentrification, global bass, and Edward Said.

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super excited to be guest djing at one of the freshest queer parties in Brooklyn this Saturday at One Last Shag - PAPI JUICE VOL.9: PAPI LUV. Thanks Oscar Nñ and Adam Rhodes for having me, and shout out to the creative mastermind Mohammed Fayaz for the best flyer my name has ever been on ever.

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screw your frigid temperatures, north america- we still go in. This Thurs, Feb 13th at Bembe - 81 South 6th St. 10pm. 

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n.y.c

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When the Lights Shut Off: Kendrick Lamar and the Decline of the Black Blues Narrative -

Autobiography and memento mori from hip-hop's rising memoirist Continue reading ’

This early 2013 piece is all the reasons Kendrick Lamar's Good Kid, Maad City surpasses any award ever.

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WE WERE INVITED TO GUEST DJ iBOMBA THIS THURSDAY JANUARY 9TH WITH RESIDENTS DJ BETO AND djushka!!! SO HONORED TO PLAY ONE OF THE BEST PARTIES IN NYC. ESPECIALLY SINCE iBOMBA HAS HOSTED SOME OF OUR FAVORITE ARTISTS, DJS AND FRIENDS!

MAD DELISH DRINKS + NO COVER + PAPIS + MAMIS + GUAP@S

COME THRUUUUUUUU

FB EVENT: https://www.facebook.com/events/379439012200276/

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We got the Papi Juice fam coming through as our guest deejays. Join us at Bembe on Thurs 1/9/14 10pm onwards for this new years throwdown. 

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Christmas Eve Spectacular wIth @ty_ushka on the island —CHUNE IN TODAY EVR.COM 2-4 PM EST

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Dap made this weird graphic for me guest set on chillin island. the archive of the dec24 @chillinisland is here if u wanna listen- i'm on 50 mins in: http://bit.ly/JrUTnB  - plus tracklist http://bit.ly/1lgt5yQ 

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"Sexuality is an important and compelling part of all this, but when we fixate on the sex we replicate the very problem this album is designed to expose: that it is still so hard for a black woman artist to be seen as deeply sexual and as a range of other things—intellectual, creative, maternal, virtuosic, self-critical, egotistical, and hilarious. When Beyoncé claims all this brilliant complexity she issues a challenge that is also a gift, whether you want to call it feminist or not."