C Powers

C Powers’ sound is informed by years spent collecting records in Atlanta and Chicago, honing crowd control skills in the foggy clubs of London, fostering queer dancing spaces and performing as DJ for the House Of Gunt in Savannah GA, and solidarity dance nights in Portland OR.

Cecilia’s sets and releases combine elements of gay camp, anti-sophistication, extended turntable technique, and a sense of juxtaposition molded by a DJ career that has strayed from the traditional “club” spaces. Cecilia has been heavily active in anti-displacement advocacy beginning with organizing rent strikes with undocumented families in LA and currently working to build the tenant movement in Portland. Cecilia became a co-founding member of People’s City Council and then Don’t Evict Portland, and the experiences she’s had behind the decks and in organizing spaces have begun to meld as she has explored bringing music into the organizing space and weaponizing audio for disruption.

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