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mon année 28 commencee avec un eclipse dans la sud de france 🛬🫶🏾

merci beaucoup a mon ami talenteaux et brilliant @cameronpatricia_ (&👼🏾) for having me. waking up my brain and body with a remembering of language, intense heat, briny waters and a renewed sense of agency.

grateful for curiosity, resources and freedom to traverse these lands, despite all that is fraught in this world. grateful for another year here.

ashé! by @yonci

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a month ago

from Studio Arisaema’s opening in May🎶🤎
link in my bio to support this work.

This studio is for those of us who refuse to contain our presence + expression within a single month. For the Black, Trans, Queer and aligned community who refuse to compromise on our truths, our values & our comfort just to access space & creative autonomy. For those of us who intend to place the means of cultural production back into the hands of those who are overrepresented in exploitation & disenfranchisement …

I’m so proud and inspired of the work @m_ada_j has put into cultivating this space. After yeeaaarrrrsssss of bedroom set ups, basement shows & forgotten follow up seshes, we’ve now sown seeds in the garden of what feels like a new but familiar world…and still, worldbuilding is an endeavor that takes multiple lifetimes (ancestors are soo proud i’m already knowingg🥹)

When you talk about legacy, about the Minneapolis Sound, about DIY initiatives & creative ecosystems, when you consider how queer and trans people are surviving, archiving, soundtracking the moments we’re in & yet to come…you’re talking about Studio Arisaema.

Invest in this becoming … support this work with a donation. Link is in my bio.

p.s. photos by me😏 by @yonci

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3 months ago

from the favs folder by @yonci

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5 months ago

proof of a life still tryna be lived despite.

a moment of gender euphoria in the green room opening for @melvingibbs , my lover @booboo3000000 and i at the tiny house, my red-black-and-green-no-matter-what-team flannel, my sweet doggie, and @yourtransfundraiser work from @sadefolaetc exhibition that reasserts: "behaving as if you have nothing to offer is a form of violence"

these are the only photos in my camera roll from the last couple of months that aren't screenshots of mutual aid / information about ICE occupying my city. they are still out here - so are we. by @yonci

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7 months ago

Today marks the end of my 3rd week as @jazz88kbem 's new Music Director. This is my first time being paid to be on air, in an endeavor that's combined pretty much every skill I've ever learned with regard to radio, music, production and presenting. Whew!

I woke up today and remembered it is also the 4 year anniversary of my Grandfather's passing.

I am carrying his spirit, his wonder and compassion, his determination and dedication, with me in everything I do. What I mean when I refer to "culture bearing" is the act of carrying the weight that is joy, grief & responsibility, all at once. It's heavy y'all.

And, I am feeling myself beginning a really intentional practice of purposeful presence in community - showing up for the things I care about and am curious about more regularly and taking up space on a larger scale. I am in love with who I am becoming and I would not be who I am without those who came before me. All I have is gratitude; For everyone who has prepared me for this journey and for those on the path with me
🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎 by @yonci

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10 months ago

“THE COTTMAN FAMILY ARCHIVES” ✨✨📸

Photos from @yonci and her grandparents, northside Minneapolis royalty!! Beverly and William “Bill” Cottman.

Taken from the 1970s on, the photos show the Cottman’s life in the city as teachers and artists - with Bill a Howard school of Arch and engineering graduate, and his wife Beverly a science teacher at West High School.

Later becoming prominent in the city for Bills photography and Beverly’s dance, the couple created, traveled and documented their lives for Yonci’s fam - as new keepers of the family archives. (Full essay linked in comments!!)

If u want to highlight ur family archives while we in ur town let us know!! We on the road right now for our “AT LEAST KNOW UR HOOD!” World Tour… Philly and Cincinnati u up next! 📍

This a new hood century segment yall. 🫶🏿🫶🏿🫶🏿

#fbf
#hoodcenturyarchive taken in Minneapolis, Minnesota by @yonci

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10 months ago

THA SPOOK JOINT - SAT NOV 1st MPLS, 8p-LATE - sit this one out Ludwig😈

HELL & HIGH WATER HATH RISEN! WICKEDNESS WALKS! - and WITH IT, we LIFT OUR VEILS, CONJURING our POWERS in DARKNESS, CONSPIRING with our CORRUPTIONS, DEALING wit our DEVILS and DEMONS! let SPIRIT SPIN us, let our ANCESTOR's ANGER FLOW as we DANCE: DEEPLY, DUTTILY and DIABOLICALLY!
WE HAVE ALWAYS BASKED in the SHADOWS; NOW, let us PORTAL TOWARDS IMMORTAL PLEASURE!

Tha Spot: @ourspacemn
Address will be shared an hour prior to the event start

8pm Screening of Sinners

On tha Jukebox:
10-11p @moosinguzi
11-12a @ariesfirebomb
12-2a @booboo3000000 b2b @yonci

On tha Soapbox:
@blu_bone & @kamillalovee

Tarot Readings by @lilastroangel

$10 ENTRY FEE, 21+, at the door only!
DM @yonci to volunteer for free entry

This Event is produced by and centers Black Queer + Trans Folks from across the diaspora: Racism, Homophobia, Transphobia, Appropriative, Fetishistic, Objectifying or other Inapporpriate Behaviors will be Named & Shamed w/ Perpetrators Banned from the Space and Future Events. Informed Consent is Mandatory! Practice Safe and Responsible Consmption.

ACCESS/ACCOMMODATIONS: Venue has 2 bathrooms on the main and lower level accessible via short flight of stairs. PPE will be available throughout the evening. If you feel sick or become sick within a week of this party, stay home!

Fonts used:
Main Flyer: PicNic by Mariel Nils/NoFoundry/Velvetyne
Themes: Ancial by daytonamess.itch.io

Juke Joint Painting by Ernie Barnes
Collage and Flyer design by Yonci by @yonci

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a year ago

🌻Proof of life + reasons to live...

Studio Arisaema's first official DJing workshop series has wrapped🫶🏾Thanks to all who came thru!!

Learning, playing and dancing with and for each other with no pressure, no expectations, just curiosity, experimentation and joy, in a fully Black + Queer space - this is where our creativity takes root, and blooms. Honored to teach and learn from y'all☀️
More offerings from Studio Arisaema very soon.

Tomorrow (Sat 8/23) I'll have a set at the inaugural Mni House Picnic, in homage to the past, present and future of Black American electronic sounds. A word if may:

I rebuke the idea that any single individual, myself included, could bear the entire brunt of representing this lineage. I refuse to let tokens make names for themselves banking off the perception that there lacks an expansive and evolving culture of Black American artistry here in the Twin Cities.

There is indeed, a legacy of abundant Black community (and those in solidarity) invested in reclaiming, preserving and celebrating our cultural output. Gratitude and flowers to the incredible team behind this event, and our community partners for investing in this heritage.

I do what I do, in hopes of cultivating and nourishing an ecosystem thru collaboration + solidarity. Purposeful pleasure and pleasurable purpose type shit. JOIN US!!!

(p.s. I'm on from 4-5p, pull up wit a plate and a bl*nt🤭) by @yonci

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a year ago

it is indeed my birthday...

... and i been feeling chopped and screwed about a lot these days. still & yet, grateful for the wisdom gained, stability sustained, and another year of possibilities, in becoming more myself, in building the world i wish to inhabit🤎 by @yonci

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a year ago

studio arisaema x modulation en noir
for the SOCIAL SOUNDTRACK - 7/10/25 6-8pm, upper wurtele garden @walkerartcenter (free)

honored to share the stage with sonic scientists @atimopoka @studiostrange_ and @queen.drea.vle who are all super fly and whose work is aurally activating and deeply inspiring🎶link in my bio to read more about these artists

@booboo3000000 and i will be performing some original music together for the first time ... ever? come see about us👀ft. a very special song w/ @kamillalovee

In M's words: "We exist outside of tired tradition. We create space for Black artists of marginalized genders and sexualities, through artist residencies, workshops, event curation, film scoring and record production. Queering these lanes, we cultivate a force of magic. May this force pull you to the hillside with a magnetism. Sounds - some reminiscent, some strange - invite you to listen with a courageous heart, an open mind and potent soul."

see y'all there!

(flyer by me (yonci) ft. images of Nick Cave's Soundsuits) by @yonci

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a year ago

april-may & bits of june🥹

friends n lovers n core memories n canon events n im feeling more like myself n i'm feeling YALL...throughout this desolate ass worl🌎

new york, new haven, toronto, n the mini apple by @yonci

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a year ago

me in march🤌🏾 by @yonci

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a year ago