Club Management An Ode To Black Trans Lives With TYGAPAW
INTERVIEW BEGINS AT 8:40Episode 24 of Club Management has arrived and this time we welcome producer, nightlife curator and label boss, Dion McKenzie to the show. You might know her as @TYGAPAW, the NYC DJ and producer that’s smashing the societal confines of the patriarchy one beat at a time. She’s a core figure within NYC’s LGBTQ nightlife community as the creator of @FakeAccent, a label and party that is notoriously dedicated to incredible music as well as a home for black, brown and the LGBTQIA+ community to perform and be themselves. Deeply inspired from Dion’s Jamaican roots and her experience living as an immigrant in NYC, Fake Accent gives a platform and home to black, queer and non-binary artists to release music and art. For Dion, Fake Accent was a way for her to create a little taste of home after she left Jamaica in 2002 to attend Parsons in NYC. The move also served as an escape from the painful reminder of Jamaica’s cultural issues with homophobia and misogyny. For Dion, coming to terms and learning to love her own queerness, she found roots in NYC and a space to truly be herself. In this episode, Shannon speaks with TYGAPAW about her musical journey, how to empower yourself through identity and the state of unrest currently with violence and police brutality. She also shares her thoughts on how these societal issues impact the Trans community. In addition, TYGAPAW sheds light on her new project "Ode To Black Trans Lives", a 3 track stellar EP that melds breakbeat rhythms and industrial clashes to shed light on the policing of the Black Trans community.Tracklist ~ "Ode To Black Trans Lives" by TYGAPAW"The Meek Shall Inherit The Earth" by TYGAPAWFollow TYGAPAW - https://fakeaccent.bandcamp.com/album/ode-to-black-trans-livesFollow Shannon - @Shannon1DJ (Instagram and Twitter)Follow Club Management - @club_management (Instagram)BE APART OF THE PATREON COMMUNITY - www.patreon.com/clubmanagement1