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diff --git a/content/posts/2026/how-the-only-south-asian-promoter-in-bushwick-techno-built-differently/index.md b/content/posts/2026/how-the-only-south-asian-promoter-in-bushwick-techno-built-differently/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9b7eafe --- /dev/null +++ b/content/posts/2026/how-the-only-south-asian-promoter-in-bushwick-techno-built-differently/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +--- +title: "How the only South Asian promoter in Bushwick techno built differently" +pubDate: 2026-04-05T20:04:49.000Z +updatedDate: 2026-04-05T20:04:49.000Z +draft: false +excerpt: "Me as the only South Asian guy promoting techno in Bushwick. That sentence appeared in two separate conversations with two different people who had no connection to each other. Not … Read more" +categories: + - Dark Culture +tags: + - community + - format-long-form + - identity + - tone-reflective +featured: + src: https://cdn.slist.net/posts/how-the-only-south-asian-promoter-in-bushwick-techno-built-differently/cover.png + alt: "Solitary figure at Bushwick crossroads at night" +legacy_wp_id: 15991 +--- +Me as the only South Asian guy promoting techno in Bushwick. That sentence appeared in two separate conversations with two different people who had no connection to each other. Not incidental. Consciously held. Occupying a niche that nobody else can claim because nobody else looks like this in these rooms. + +Simon is not the most convenient name in Mexico City. In CDMX, the dissonance of being South Asian in a Latino scene was constant and inescapable. In New York, the discovery was different but equally pointed: they realized I was not queer, or even Colombian like most of the hard techno scene, and that I was not a liberal. They treated me like I was a Trojan horse. + +## The outsider mathematics +Diff truncated (54 lines total). View full commit on GitHub →
