All right, welcome back everyone. Welcome back to Crooked Minis. This is Mala. And this is Diyosan.

And as you know in this Crooked Minis series, we are talking about self-care, the power of self-care,

the politics of self-care. And on this episode, we want to explore partying and coming together as

community as a form of self-care and as community care. So as look at what our radio and our own work,

we heavily believe in the party as practice and we throw our own parties for some pretty specific

reasons. Yes. And today we are going to be interviewing two folks from the Kumbhiyatong Collective,

which is a nationwide party collective or Bhachanga as they call it that centers undocque queer folks.

And we're really excited to be chatting with them. We firmly enthusiastically believe that

the party is politic and also there's practice involved in partying as well, especially as folks

were marginalized identities or communities. Being able to center joy and healing is something

that needs to be prioritized in addition to the organizing and the movement and the struggle.

We definitely want to emphasize that the struggle is not the only way to be. There's definitely

room for joy and laughter and dancing. And I think historically there's a lot to say about the role

that getting together, partying, dancing, making music, listening to music, even drinking,

has had a really important place and role in the lives of people of color and of queer people

in the United States. There is something very subversive about getting together and enjoying

each other's company and dancing and feeling free in spite of institutional oppression,

in spite of the political moment, in spite of persecution. And that's sort of what we want to talk

to the Kumbhiyatong Collective about DJ Sizzle and Balor Rivera's have their own backgrounds in

community organizing on behalf of the rights of undocumented people. But they also throw this

incredible party, the Kumbhiyatong Party, and we have been going to Kumbhiyatong Parties here in L.A.

since the beginning. So for us in our own lives and experiences, I know for me the Kumbhiyatong

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