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@abnama

Introduce yourself? Preferred pronouns? Where do you currently reside? 1 fun fact about yourself? 

Hiiiii
she/her
I live in berlin

I can move my ears

How is everything going with you right now?

You have no idea how much better off I would be if I could give a straightforward answer to that question. Things are as good as possible I guess, I’m very lucky to have financial stability and my own equipment to keep myself busy but at this point I’m almost excited to go back to my bar job.

Any fun predictions for 2021?

It will be like 2020 in reverse but having a panic attack… is that fun?
But seriously I’m really worried how the next few months are gonna unfold in terms of who gets access to vaccination and who doesn’t. I’m afraid of a global apartheid system being cemented in place which will have grave consequences in the critical years ahead. Er.. sorry.. back to fun things!

We were gonna celebrate 5 years of DUMP, a queer night that I co-organazie, last April. I think we’ll get to do it one way or another this summer.

How did you get your DJ name?

It’s Farsi for fountain, not in the natural, ethereal, source of lifey sense of the word but the tacky, painted concrete contraption you’d find in a garden. A friend’s family had a little garden west of Tehran where we used to party and there was the ugliest most elaborate fountain with purple lights and a miniature cave and all. I wasn’t even DJing back then but decided if I ever do I’d call myself abnama.

4 djs you would want to see on a lineup for the first party post covid asap?

I’ll skip my Climax babes because I’m sure we’d all rather just get high and dance…

Livwutang
Yoni
Venetta
Byron Yeates

What would you like to see in the future for the dance community?

I wanna see European cities committed to the wellbeing and security of all nightlife workers from bartenders and sex workers and bouncers to DJs and organizers to the same degree that they depend on us for selling themselves as tourist attractions and “creative hubs”.
I wanna see more venues run by anyone other than white dudes. 
I wanna see more local scenes that come together for sharing music and pleasure the way they like and that aim for connection and intensification rather than growth and representing something to an assumed wider outside audience.
I wanna see live streams disappear along with covid.
I wanna see less fashion and more sweaty hot dancefloors.
I wanna see more people of color doing door selection.
I wanna see a much more acute awareness of the fact that most people on this planet are not free to travel around the world at will to tour clubs and festivals, not that everyone should feel sad and guilty all the time but definitely angry and maybe think of the global electronic music industry more in terms of the free movement of money and commodities rather than of people and culture.
I wanna hear less talk of spiritual and political significance of partying, rave as revolution etc. and more commitment to engaging with the politics of partying and club culture itself. Pleasure does not seek justification (unless you’re applying for funding ofc…) but it has its own politics that includes but goes beyond issues of representation. 

I wanna see more focus on harm reduction and care beyond the party itself. We all love the hedonism and the mess but we have to make sure those of us who are in the most vulnerable states are taken care of and have a community to reach out to even when they don’t show up to the party or when there’s no party at all. Here in Berlin the work the collectives Lecken, TS Raver and Berlin Collective Action have been doing is really impressive in terms of creating a more solid network of mutual care. 

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