Guest speaker: Manu Kaur (they/them) 
 
Caste-oppressed diasporic queers discuss tragic love through Seema’s 2022 Role-Playing Game (RPG), love x lore, and the influence of caste on power dynamics & social hierarchies within South Asian queer circles - plus a comparison of lived experiences between India, the US and the UK. 

This podCASTE episode contains strong language throughout. 

Resources for the episode (as mentioned in the episode):  

Caste, Queerness, Migration and the Erotics of Activism - Link: https://journals.openedition.org/samaj/7173

love x lore (2022) -RPG by Seema Mattu – Link: https://tinyurl.com/lovexlore
(Contains one use of strong language) 
By retelling stories at the core of Punjabi mentality and society, love x lore (2022) is an online RPG (role playing game) which sparks perpetual discourse around caste hierarchies, queer sorcery and expectations of sex and gender.

About Manu: 

Manu is a queer, Dalit, non-binary femme who is committed to caste annihilation, queer liberation, and mental health activism. Their work is centered around advocating for caste oppressed communities, defending queer and trans lives, and dismantling the anti-Blackness that exists within the diasporic South Asian community. Manu dreams of a world that amplifies, uplifts, and protects Black, Indigenous, Dalit, queer, and trans lives.

Seema Mattu - podCASTE Episode 4: caste-oppressed queers 👽

A remix of "Bermondsey Lagoon" from Ectopia's debut album "life/section". Digital version of the album is on Bandcamp here https://wysingpolyphonic.bandcamp.com/album/life-section
Vinyl version available from here http://www.wysingartscentre.org/shop/shop_item/ectopia_life_section

Ectopia Remix

Ectopia – Bermondsey Lagoon (Golden Temple Remix)

NTS LIVE SET [September 4, 2018]

This mix is part of Polyphonic mix series by Wysing Arts Center. 

https://tankmagazine.com/tank/2020/08/crystallmess-wysing-polyphonic/

INTROLUDO INFERNO, is “built around Interludes and Intros - sonic interstices that often allow musicians to be their most vulnerable and reveal the psyche behind their project”.

So far, so real - Gray 
CONSCIENTEOFTHESOUL (Good lads/Bad Lads blend) -  Covco
Over It (CRYSTALLMESS chopped and screwed edit) - Summer Walker 
Hello, it’s me - Katerina 
Side X Intro - Standing On The Corner 
10-34 Reprise - Fatima Al Qadiri 
There is only one year left - Busta Rhymes 
UWËM/CREATION - Space Afrika 
Temps Mort - Booba 
Nothing Without Intention - Solange 
Fröjd - Suutoo 
The Infamous Prelude - Mobb Deep 
Baby Girl Interlude / Intro - Missy Eliott 
Arm N Leg Intro - ???
Direct Line - Dean Blunt 
Needle Dreams - Terribilis 
Claiborne Kick - Westside Gunn ft Boldy James 
Intro Al Naafyish - DJ Feadz
Intro Star Wars - Kelis 
Unknown Interlude - Drexciya 
Yelwa Procession 
CREAM - Lee Gamble 
Black Feathers - Black Replica 
Lars Von Sen - Mr.Oizo

INTROLUDO INFERNO MIXTAPE

A soundtrack to grieve over alternative realities. 

Thank you to Brenda for actually taking me on a night ride to record the sounds and @mangovivi for the beautiful third track (at around 5min)

Interview on:
https://tankmagazine.com/tank/2020/08/mobilegirl-wysing-polyphonic/

II - for Wysing Polyphonic: The Ungoverned

Wysing Arts Centre is a thriving cultural campus of ten buildings across an 11acre rural site in south Cambridgeshire which hosts experimental 
residencies for UK and international artists, and delivers a critically acclaimed public programme of gallery exhibitions and events including conferences, symposia, workshops and music events. 

Buy the first release by music project Ectopia from our website: 7 tracks, mixed and mastered by Rupert Clervaux

Seema Mattu - podCASTE Episode 4: caste-oppressed queers 👽

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