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By Verónica Bayetti Flores • @veroconplatanos • 9 years ago

Feministing Jamz: New stuff from Kali Uchis, THEESatisfaction, and FKA Twigs

Most weeks, I sift through new releases and choose one artist, song, or video to feature on Feministing Jamz. This week, I’m feeling generous, so I’m giving you three! 

Kali Uchis – “Lottery”

This Colombian singer has been working hard and steady over the past year, releasing catchy, genre-hopping pop songs, and it’s starting to pay off big-time. This latest track is one from her upcoming EP, Por Vida. If you haven’t heard of Kali Uchis yet, check her out ASAP — she’s got her eye on big things!

THEESatisfaction – “Recognition” (Feat. Shabazz Palaces & Erik Blood)

THEESatisfaction’s new video for “Recognition” is an Afrofuturistic trip through the residences and other important sites of Black cultural icons like Marian Anderson, John Coltrane, and Sun Ra, and features artist Xenobia Bailey. This spacey track, which came out back in December, is the first single off their upcoming sophomore album, EarthEE, due out on February 24th.

FKA Twigs – “Pendulum”

Y’all know we’re team Twigs here at Feministing, and I’m happy to report that her latest video does not disappoint. Back when we first featured her on the blog over a year ago, I mentioned loving the kink dynamic in her video for “Papi Pacify,” and here she explores the visual language of kink and bondage even further with gorgeously elaborate kinbaku. From the fact that the ropes are actually extensions of her hair to the faint but unmistakable imprints of the rope on her skin, the details of this sexy video — which Twigs directed herself and said represents the ways she’s constrained her own self in the past — are on point. There’s no nudity, but it’s probs NSFW.

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Verónica Bayetti Flores has spent the last years of her life living and breathing reproductive justice. She has led national policy and movement building work on the intersections of immigrants' rights, health care access, young parenthood, and LGBTQ liberation, and has worked to increase access to contraception and abortion, fought for paid sick leave, and demanded access to safe public space for queer youth of color. In 2008 Verónica obtained her Master’s degree in the Sexuality and Health program at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. She loves cooking, making art, listening to music, and thinking about the ways art forms traditionally seen as feminine are valued and devalued. In addition to writing for Feministing, she is currently spending most of her time doing policy work to reduce the harms of LGBTQ youth of color's interactions with the police and making sure abortion care is accessible to all regardless of their income.

Verónica is a queer immigrant writer, activist, and rabble-rouser.

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