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drugs & raves journalist | Culture Editor @DoubleBlindMag | author 'WEED' (Random House) | subscribe to my newsletter Rave New World ⤵️

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NYC is taking after Portland - a trans femme protestor was pulled into an unmarked van at the Abolition Park protest - this was at 2nd Ave and 25th Street
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"Could never live in LA bc traffic!!!" says New Yorker, beet red from anxiety while stuck 30 mins at rat piss station as conductor explains unintelligibly over broken speakers that J train is running backwards on A line to Canal before it grows wings & flies to Staten Island
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Nevada rangers drove directly into a blockade set up by climate protestors on the road to Burning Man. An officer pulled a gun out, tackling a protestor and threatening to shoot Environmental activists were demanding that #BurningMan ban private jets + single-use plastics
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If u want more context on what happened today, I'm an independent journalist and will be writing a full report on what I witnessed today for my newsletter
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Burning Man climate protestors have now been arrested. Nevada ranger told me they received a 911 call saying that someone in the crowd was going to shoot the activists… And this was somehow their reason for charging in, guns blazing?
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I wrote my first @GQMagazine profile on @CrazyRichMovie star Michelle Yeoh, who I grew up watching as a kid in Singapore and is the dictionary definition of SLAYSIAN
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Um did I just stumble upon @marcrebillet busking in Dimes Square
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The trans woman who was kidnapped has been located and there is a GoFundMe to help her find housing when she is released
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Sophie was here for the girls—the strange Dionysian mermaids feeling restless in our own bodies. I am the icon, she said, I am the dream and the illusion. The new American girl. Be the pop star of your own making. The awards she would've won await her in heaven. Rest, my queen 🐚
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wrote my first @thefader COVER STORY on everyone's fave slayzian @kraeji !!! The story of Yaeji is also the story of Brooklyn's DIY scene, the rise of queer Asian nightlife, and the sweet solitude of dancing alone at sunrise on a Bushwick roof 🙃 ?
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New York, New York, if you can get kidnapped by unmarked vans here, you can get kidnapped by unmarked vans anywhere
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today i learned an important professional lesson: ALWAYS fuck your office crushes while u can bc u never know when u could get laid off
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We interviewed @justinbieber 's DJ who revealed that the Beebz's most requested song is always @youngthug
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Oregon decriminalized all drugs + legalized medical shrooms, New Jersey and Arizona legalized weed, DC decriminalized shrooms - the War on Drugs is ending bitch it's the psychedelic age
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I hate to see it but the druggie winds are shifting, ketamine is now basic, and cocaine is BACK baby
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@kish_lal I've always thought Needed Me was the best fuck u song
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my @voguemagazine debut is about the very sweet love story between @SOPHIEMSMSMSM & tzef montana, who made me believe in love again or something:
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Marching up 7th Ave shouting "WE WANT JUSTICE FOR THE PEOPLE" - crowd has grown significantly and vibe has gone from chill to impassioned & angry
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Holy shit never thought a tweet I wrote while trapped on the J train for an hour would go viral!!! Anyhoo HI YALL I live in LA now but NY was my first love and I once wrote an ode to the best thing about the city - bodegas:
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National Lawyers Guild lawyers reporting officers for illegally recording protestors
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Always felt Yeoh deserves more shine so ended up writing about how she became one of the most physically gifted actresses alive + would've been the female Jackie Chan if Hollywood let more women of color play strong, complex heroes... + here's the selfie we took lol 👅
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Protestor at #psychedelicscience draws parallels to the commodification of tobacco + coca: “Decades from now, you’re gonna see the medicines harming you bc they’re living beings & they don’t like being abused. This isn’t a collective liberation movement, this is capitalization.”
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is it just me or has the horny euphoria of early spring collapsed into a bleak vortex of nauseating anxiety and intense inertia? the streets are giving psych ward
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Protestors are now doing a meditation circle in Times Square after the arrests + kidnappings, as cops continue to trail
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in honor of sophie i transcribed an unpublished interview we did for @teenvogue in 2017. she'd just transitioned and it felt like a Moment. sophie was a true angel and what we are left with is her message from the future she was carrying all along.
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Protestors are rallying at Times Square and preparing to continue marching
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Overwhelmed by the deafening "YAAAAS!!" from the Asian-American community for my @kraeji @thefader cover 🙏 makes me so excited for more Asian visibility in the culture (finally!) ~can't stop this slayzian wave~ ✊
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Reggie Watts and Marc Rebillet street busking about ketamine next to the Citibike dock on the Lower East Side lmao New York is healing
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im either celibate or deepthroating a dick by the LA river outside la colombe, there is no inbetween
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if psychedelics kill the ego - why are there so many hyper-inflated male egos in the psychedelic scene
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Protestors tell me she was putting stickers on cameras at Occupy City Hall
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In regard to a video on social media that took place at 2 Ave & 25 St, a woman taken into custody in an unmarked van was wanted for damaging police cameras during 5 separate criminal incidents in & around City Hall Park. The arresting officers were assaulted with rocks & bottles.
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Indigenous protestors just crashed the closing ceremony of #PsychedelicScience , the largest psychedelic conference in the world. Rather than calling security, @RickDoblin called them on stage to speak - a truly psychedelic moment of challenge and integration
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Kamalas eyes wide open luminous sparkling with fierce intelligence Pence literally has pink eye, squinting, looks like sickly Sauron
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#breaking Climate protestors from @RaveRevolution @XR_NYC @ScientistRebel1 set up a blockade on the road to #BurningMan this afternoon, demanding that the festival bans private jets and single-use plastics amongst other environmental concerns 🌳🔥
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transcribing my SOPHIE interview, everything she said—about breaking binaries, bringing sound worlds into the future while connecting to the spirit of disco, speaking thru her music not identity politics—was so goddamn visionary dropping part II tonight:
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Yall know my fave mode of writing is druggie confessionals... so I wrote about my journey from NY party girl to "Cali sober" raver for @broadly . Details of my story are specific but hopefully useful for anyone looking for a more sustainable way of partying
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But I WiLL, because this is the correct take: Aphex Twin got paid $1million to shittily DJ obscure club music in Mexico
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Tonight I will certainly not be tweeting wondering how much a certain major artist is getting paid per minute to play scene ppl's tracks in his live set. Learned my lesson.
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Watching a Black Panther documentary in Central Park as the cops wait at the perimeter - tbh the most anxious movie screening ever
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i just feel like the berghain model of nightlife (apocalypse aesthetics, BDSM looks, comically mean bouncers, TSA-style security) is so boring tired and elitist — conformist clout-chasing status anxiety is no fun. if raves are utopias this is not the future i want to live in
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Tried a VR psychedelic wellness app at a Ram Dass tribute event and the business pitch was: "we wanna be the Netflix of transformational experiences...hacking mindfulness... like Peloton for your mind" LORD HELP US
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Cops on scooters showed up, tried to breach the bike barricade and failed
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BTW instead of endlessly debating NY vs LA in my mentions, y'all should read some of my chronicles of NY nightlife :]
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Want to clarify that this video was originally taken by photojournalist Brandon English. I apologize for not crediting, I didn't know it was his when I posted as it was sent to me by an anon source. Please direct all inquiries his way + credit him!
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I'm at an all-femme psychedelic dinner at Soho House getting gifted artisanal shroom honey and getting pitched by a publicist on wearable ketamine lmao
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Wanna feel the brunt of music industry misogyny? Write a critical RA review abt Aphex Twin lol These bros accusing me of being a newb in a "bad mood" for daring to question their God... Bitch plz I know how this industry works v well & that's why I'm calling for revolution
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DC is literally white supremacist Burning Man
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it was a dream to profile one of my fave producers @SOPHIEMSMSMSM for @TeenVogue ! hope you love it as much as i love her <3
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Techno is a lifestyle
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New York is FINALLY getting a COOL QUEER TECHNO CLUB and I dont wanna jump the gun but OMG THIS COULD BE OUR BERGHAIN
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I interviewed a regular kid (no trust fund) who is still stuck at #Fyrefestival and getting wasted @DylanACOP
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Speaking of cool new print mags, a new Asian mag called Burdock launched today!! I wrote about @Jbrekkie learning how to cook Korean food after her mom died---a super heartwarming story of embracing where u came from
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It's so pathetic how the adrenaline high after publishing a story lasts shorter than a hit of poppers before you return to the eternal state of self-loathing doubt, yet as writers that feeling is all we live for
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Wrote about my relationship to drugs/addiction, and what sober raving for a month taught me
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This is how the patriarchy crumbles
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New York sober is when you don't need to snort the last line bc you've done the entire drug alphabet for so many hours that your high has cycled back like an ouroboros and you have reached this pleasurable plateau of feeling totally sober
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Getting to be that age where my white friends look 10 years older than everyone else
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A punky girl at the Greek rave says she moved back to Athens from Berlin bc it's no longer the place to be... "in Berlin they are given so much freedom, they destroy themselves with it." She is 19.
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Ever since coming back to LA I've been binging yoga gorging salads and throwing myself into hikes, u can't stop this healing spiral I'M ON A MENDER
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@HalseyVEVO @mcmoynihan An old white man who critiques grammar for clout
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Much love to my editor @knguyen , who plucked me off the internet after reading my Yaeji story! The slaysian-on-slaysian-on-slaysian-on-slaysian power is overwhelming
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Marching by the brunching bourgeois is one of my fave parts of NYC protests
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*deep sigh* men like this in the music industry are a cancer, someone fire this delusional douchebag @djjustinjames
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im going thru one of the most insane transitions from writing about raves + weed -> the counterculture of political protests - i know it can be confusing & i'm losing friends and followers over this pandemic pivot so ty to everyone who is sticking by me <3
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Analyzing black abject femininity in @rihanna BBHMM w tbh the coolest queer POC kids ever at @newmuseum Scamming the Patriarchy conference
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. @RBMA was the modern-day Medici of electronic music, stepping in to provide $$$ + visas for artists when no other American institutions or governments would. We will miss you daddy.
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"NY sober" is replacing coke with ketamine lol
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Climate activists in NYC @XR_NYC just climbed the 🌎 outside Trump Hotel and dropped fake blood + a "CLIMATE JUSTICE NOW" sign - to a soundtrack of jazz street performers #ClimateCrisis #FuckTrump
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Ok @Pornhub YOU WIN TODAY
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Overheard in a VICE interview: "I lost my job in journalism so I became an Instagram slut"
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all these psychedelic researchers telling me how therapeutic it is to trip for six hours in a dark room surrounded by comforting guides + non-verbal cues + cathartic music -- and i'm like girl that sounds like a rave
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After months of fearful deliberation I finally told my conservative Asian parents that I'm writing a weed book and my mom's response was literally "what is weed?"
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Last nite this old dude w bad teeth at the Detroit rave kept saying I was a "ten" (yeah right lol) and prodding this other dude to chime in who replied "I don't comment on a woman's appearance unless invited" ✔️ ding ding ding correct response ✔️
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Inspired by Weinsteingate to call out two massive creeps at my previous place of employment... Nervous as hell, wish me luck y'all
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. @thumpthump died today, we're saying goodbye w our final post ever— @ezra_marc 's homage to @arca1000000 's boots
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got my ass rejected from berghain despite being on the house list bc the new bouncers r basic straight bros w goatees (!) screaming at everyone who doesn't smile at them, so i told em they weren't punk or radical & are ruining what the club is supposed to stand for lmaoo BOOP!
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I AM SO FUCKING SICK OF STRAIGHT WHITE MEN TELLING ME HOW TO DO MY JOB
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"I am extremely anxious," march organizer Victoria just told me, "This park is extremely dark, there are cops everywhere watching us, as soon as this movie screening ends we are out of here"
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. @hollyherndon 's entire system mysteriously crashed at the SF gig last nite but watching her, @matdryhurst & her choir valiantly struggle and laugh through a stripped down show somehow made it an even more beautiful reminder of the fragility of our relationship w machines
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One annoying side effect of taking lots of psychedelics is you start to believe in God
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Last night I watched two superstar female DJs ( @NinaKraviz b2b Helena Hauff) close out the main stage of a mainstream music festival w brutal no-fucks Berghain-lite techno while looking supremely confident and poised and that sums up the ~state of electronic music~ in 2019!!!
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Write a FADER cover story and suddenly everyone wants a favor and/or to date u
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In the final part of my Sophie interview, she unpacked her legendary live show—and its themes of kink+body augmentation, emoting through machines, existential questions, ego dissolution This is how Sophie brought her WHOLE NEW WORLD to life <3
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my #WEED book is out 4/20 next year & is available for pre-order now : )
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The boarded-up aesthetic is peak corporate paranoia, these brands shouting "Black Lives Matter!" on socials while building a plywood doomsday bunker lmao we see you and you look like goddamn fools
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Stepped out to buy ice cream in Bushwick & ended up in a Keith Haring truck getting tested for STDs/HIV by a gay black man who taught me about PrEP for women. On my way out they gave me a subway card, bag of groceries, tampons and condoms. LONG LIVE PLANNED PARENTHOOD!!! @PPFA
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Me: hey People in LA: looking to share some work and build community and my buddy mentioned your incredible activations. Would love to connect and explore possible collaboration across mediums for an immersive activation!
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It makes me so FUCKING happy that LA still has raves like this, under a bridge, no cover charge or guest list...just old school heads... so pure
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The return to raving is actually rly rough lol the parties are fab & everyone is so sweet and yet... I feel anxious overwhelmed alienated and physically shitty like I'm trying on an old skin and it's not really fitting? Not sure if I find joy in clubrat abjecthood anymore
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kinda overwhelming how many good porties are in the D this year so i made us a snarky lil guide #MovementDetroit
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Met a "rave influencer" by the pool in Phuket who goes: "I get paid to go to festivals all over the world but I'm not even a DJ, I just post ketamine memes," then immediately flexes his bicep and asks if I can write about him for VICE
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I flew to Berlin to hang with hacker-ravers, anal-fist the void, and profile my favorite post-EDM nu-metal boyband @amnesiascanner for @thefader ☠️☠️
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My girl Abyss X started playing demonic industrial techno at an LA fashion week party, so I climbed behind the booth to pump the fog machine - and see MS. CHRISTINA AGUILERA in a tracksuit making out behind me
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Berlin boys are so sexy I tried to cruise two separate guys at different parties only to meet them at Berghain later and find out they are GAY and MARRIED to EACH OTHER
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wrote about the thriving new* market of schools teaching doctors & therapists how to work with psychedelics!!! here's how to become a shroom, mdma, or ketamine doc: @business
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most based thing anyone has ever said about my work 🙏 thx JP!
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And the immature impulsive hedonism continue, unabated: possession by basic biological drive elevated into object of unconscious worship. The worst of an emergent polytheistic paganism. With all the requisite pseudo-intellectual jargon. "Chemsex."
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My Michael Alig profile nearly killed me, but I've never been prouder of a story I've done
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