Thanks to the excellent history podcast, Throughline, I learned that House music got its start in Chicago. I haven't listened to much House music, but they made a nice little Spotify playlist to get started.

I especially liked this quote from M

It has to start with the persistence, resistance and ingenuity of both Black and brown queer folk and young people. They innovated and catalyzed this genre into being and, again, it is telling a similar story just through what became popular culture, you know, social culture in that moment of kind of Black resistance.

There are all these ways in which the world and society cuts off access, discriminates, is anti-Black, is racist. And culture is a space where folks of color, Black folks, have really loudly resisted all of these efforts to silence, to make less human, to make less complex.