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
"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
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
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
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?
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
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 🐚
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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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
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:
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 👅
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.”
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
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.
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~ ✊
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.
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
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:
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
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.
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
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
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!
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
.
@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.
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
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
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?"
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 ✔️
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!
"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"
.
@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
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!!!
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
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
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
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!
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
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
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
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
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
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."