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One of the 1rst Female International D&B / Jungle DJs & Producers Est.1996 📍NYC
Music:@EmpowerRecordings Merch:@Empower_State
EmpowerRecordings@gmail

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🙏🤍🕊️**date of passing was wrong thanks to ChatGPT. He passed October 6th. Mama hasn’t been sleeping much and missed this mistake. Much love 🤍

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Autumn is here, & so am I.✨
Healing slowly, coming home to myself, one curl at a time. 🍂

My body is healing slowly, & I’m giving it the care that healing requires.

And beauty is part of that life, too.

Because of MCAS & EDS, I need help washing my hair. So Renee, on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, has joined my army of doctors, physical therapists & healers helping me stay healthy, glowing & connected to myself.

My nerve pain was raging in that salon chair. Then a brush moved through my hair, a curl took shape, & for a few precious moments, my attention belonged entirely to something beautiful. I caught a glimpse of myself beyond the appointments, the recovery & the pain.

I’m grateful for Renee @grkbeauty20 💖 & for all the healers whose care helps us feel beautiful while we heal.

Sometimes, returning to yourself begins in someone else’s chair. ✨🖤✨

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High vibes, warm October sunshine & a no-filter flex.☀️💪😌

A radiant Saturday afternoon along the East River, with Manhattan blazing gold beneath the sky & the waves of the East River’s water shimmering like a mirror beneath every hard-earned step forward.

I’m still healing from major surgical injuries, specifically my severed Sacral nerve, along with other nerve injuries, that pulses pain through every movement, but I’m choosing perseverance, patience, progress & gratitude.

The agony is constant, so I share my story because I wish I’d been better informed. My sacral nerve was severed during surgery, & a specialist confirmed it after reviewing a video clip of the event, which I have a copy of. Patients deserve clear explanations of serious risks, including the possibility of severe, lasting, disabling pain, so they can make informed decisions.

And if you think a pinched nerve hurts, believe me: living with a severed nerve has been nonstop, utter torture. I’m finally accepting that this is part of my reality. Little walks like this one are actually a big deal for me. Every mile carries the weight of what it took to walk it. It is what it is, & today, I’m giving myself flowers for every step. 🌹

Today, I stepped outside & completed the mile I promised myself: determined steps toward healing, steady breaths toward freedom & a bright moment underneath the luminous sky.

I’m still here, still rising, still glowing in the city I call home (while trying to not to forget to take all of the medications and supplements that I’ve been prescribed, lol 😆).

Grateful for the sun warming my skin, the strength moving through my spirit, & every victory, no matter how small, that carries me forward. 🌊✨

#endometriosis #MCAS #ehlersdanlossyndrome #SMAsyndrome & #NutcrackerSyndrome

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Healing isn't a straight line, but it's moving in the right direction. I can't wait to keep learning on this healing journey so I can share all the modalities and support that are guiding me toward a new equilibrium. Pain into purpose. 🙏❤️‍🔥🎶

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Please follow @DJEmpress - not this page. This page is just a URl holder since it was my AIM (chat - remember that software) name & Myspace URL. Thanks friends❤️‍🔥🎶🎹

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🎶 WHITE LABEL: THE DEFINITIVE DOCUMENTARY OF NYC RAVE CULTURE 🎵🫶👽⚡️🎬 Featuring talents such as: @moby @djfrankiebones @adamx_sonicgroove @aniquinn @peacebisquit @djodibk1 @therealmilkyvintage @liquidskynyc @djempress @chris_bones387 @mantosprm194 @thedjdara @dbburkeman @harryromeroofficial @djjoeski @jenmasdj @djdelirium @selwaymusic @djjonathanpeters @joeycarvello @joeybeltram @lennydeeisr @industrialstrengthrec @keokirocks @mattesilvernyc @nigel611 @djscotto @scottsatellite @tommiesunshine @mellosince71 @melzy917

👉Save the Date! Special Event! 🫶

More details and confirmed DJ Talent coming soon! This will be a chance to see part of the documentary pilot, be in a dialog with the filmmakers during Q&A, and party!

🔜 RSVP instructions coming out next!

PLANETX + WHITE LABEL FUNDRAISER IN BROOKLYN =
8-27-2026 Thursday from 7pm to midnight

All links in Bio: https://linktr.ee/whitelabeldoc

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RIP Dad, #DanIngram 1934 - 2018. You changed what it meant to be a Radio Personality and Radio was meant to have you. I miss laughing with you wholeheartedly. Thank you for sending me signs, that you are still with me. Thank you for cheering on my individuality as a teenager and loving the small amount of my music you heard. I miss bumping music of all genres on your surround sound system on the 44th floor of the building we lived in🖤
PS- this was one of my father’s favorite songs because when the word “walking” is sung, he would swear she was singing “fucking”. Haha 🤣 you had to know him to really get his humor.
#RadioLegend #musicradiowabc #wcbsfm

Michael Harrison, publisher of the radio trade publication Talkers, said in a statement that Ingram was “the greatest Top 40 radio disc jockey of all time - not just being a master of compacted content delivered by an awesome voice w/ a remarkable range, but a genius practitioner of timing. He raised the presentation of pop radio to an art form.”

Ingram reigned as one of the most influential & popular DJs beginning in the early years of the format, when transistor radios first made it possible to carry your music with you on the streets, at school and at the beach. “I literally was in their ears,” Ingram said.

He sensed & fostered an intimate connection to his listeners, & developed an on-air persona that made his fans feel they were part of an inside group.

On WABC, which had a powerhouse signal that reached most of the eastern half of the country at night, Ingram called his listeners “Kemosabe,” Tonto’s affectionate moniker for the Lone Ranger on the radio and TV series of that name. He was the last deejay on WABC on the day it switched from Top 40 music to political talk in 1982.

He proclaimed a Word of the Day (“Solid!” “Humdinger!” “Rococo!”). He jabbed constantly at the tired old format. “Twenty-two before three on the Ingram Travesty,” he announced one afternoon in 1962, “the program designed to belt the Establishment.”

Some days, he dubbed his show the “Ingram Atrocity;” more often, it was the “Ingram Mess,” & always, he found ways to needle the powers that be.

& @META - my dad retired in 2003!

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2 doctor’s appointments yesterday, 2 today, Physical Therapy on Wednesday, another Dr on Thursday, 1 more on Friday.
Grateful, exhausted, healing, but still looking pretty. ❤️‍🩹

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Platinum flyer for the end of July through Aug 2000. Bunch of heavies came through. #philadelphia #drumandbass #jungle

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#throwback #platinum #philadelphia #drumandbass #dnb this is the first flyer I was on for platinum as a resident. This was the beginning of my Philly drum and bass journey.

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So NASA just got ordered to put a nuclear reactor on the moon by 2030.

Cool. Great. Love the ambition.

You know what else we could use by 2030?

A non-invasive way to diagnose endometriosis.

A condition that affects 190 million women worldwide.

You know how much the NIH spends per patient per year on endometriosis research?

Two dollars.
Two.

I’ve left better tips on a bad cup of coffee.

Meanwhile we have 813 billionaires in this country sitting on $6.1 trillion combined
and we’re debating whether to cut food stamps to make the budget work.

Interesting math.

PCOS. Fibroids. Vulvodynia.
Adenomyosis.

Conditions affecting hundreds of millions of women.

Chronically underfunded. Barely studied.

The speculum used in your gynecologist’s office was designed in 1845.

That means it is 180 years old (!!).

We have not meaningfully redesigned it since.

We have not meaningfully redesigned a tool that is used countless times every single day to open one of the most delicate parts of the human body. A woman’s vagina.

Yet- We went to the moon.

But We did not redesign the speculum.
🤔

So yes. Fund space exploration.

Fund all of it.

But maybe also fund the bodies of the people who produced every single human being who ever looked up and wanted to go there.

Enjoy the moon.

Just know every astronaut who ever got there took their first journey out of a vagina.

Fund women’s health research the same way space travel is prioritized.

It’s time women’s health entered the orbit of actual priority.✨💫🪐🌎✨🌚🌝💫✨

#womenshealth #endometriosis #vagina #healthiswealth #space

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