Tonight, we have guest host Zuha Khan, or DJ Baqvas, who will be spinning music that is Defiantly Yours: Radical Music from the Asian Diaspora in the Era of Trump. Regardless of the offensive statements that come out of his mouth, People of Color will not be silent. The defiant music you hear tonight will underscore this very thought.

[caption id="attachment_4150" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Zuha Khan at BFF.fm[/caption]

DJ Baqvas is no stranger to APEX Express. She produced a fundraiser for Bay Area Solidarity Summer at El Rio last year, which we featured on our 2017 Bay Area May Day [1] show. DJ Baqvas is a member of the Alliance of South Asians Taking Action [2] and helps out with its projects like Bay Area Solidarity Summer [3], a political action camp for South Asian youth. She’s been a DJ for 7 years, starting at UC Davis’s college radio station KDVS and continues at San Francisco’s BFF.fm. Her show, Fractal Chambers [4], is on every other Saturday at 10 a.m.

Zuha finds tracks produced by subversive artists, from right here at home to countries most wouldn’t think to look to. And we’re excited to hear her selections tonight.

You can follow her on Twitter @Zuha_Wave [5].

Community Calendar

Activist Tony Robles will read from his new book of poetry, Fingerprints of a Hunger Strike, on Saturday at 3 p.m. at Eastwind Books [6]. This book is a journey into the soul of San Francisco, in all its cracks and fissures.

On Tuesday, February 6, Bindlestiff Studio [7], a black box theater in SOMA Pilipinas will be hosting a discussion on sexual harassment. How do we as a community address this problem amid the #metoo/Time's Up movement? How can we prevent sexual harassment from happening in our community-based organizations? How do we cultivate an environment where people feel safe enough to speak out when it occurs? How do we employ principles of restorative justice to allow for amends? The meeting starts at 6:30 with an update on Bindlestiff Studio followed by the discussion at 7:30.  

Next Thursday from 5-8 p.m. at SOMArts Cultural Center [8] is a Happy hour and conversation on queering Islam. As part of the exhibition Third Muslim: Queer and Trans* Muslim Narratives of Resistance and Resilience, this panel conversation will be made up of intergenerational community members who have made their own paths as queer Muslims. 

[1] https://apexexpress.wordpress.com/2017/04/27/42717-bay-area-may-day/

[2] http://www.asata.org/

[3] http://www.solidaritysummer.org/

[4] http://bff.fm/shows/fractal-chambers

[5] https://twitter.com/Zuha_Wave

[6] https://www.facebook.com/events/1997345500546763/

[7] https://www.facebook.com/events/162138784410236/

[8] https://www.facebook.com/events/160640144452151/