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to play. I was there like, “So many of my girl mates, so many of my queer mates, so many of my Black mates would have absolutely killed this night.” But it’s just kind of how it is, where a promoter will just book his mates rather than booking a good DJ. I got back to my hotel and texted my agent like, “I want to make sure that I am performing among more people who look like me, and among more people who are nonbinary and trans, etc.” I found a template for an inclusion rider online, and it basically stipulates that 30% of the lineup of any stage I play on has to be from an underrepresented group, and has to be approved by me.
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to their contracts for live performances. It required that at least one act on any lineup they were performing on should be from an underrepresented group approved by them, such as female, Black, queer, or genderqueer. If a promoter did not adhere to this, Nyajo would not play the show. Explaining
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for university later in 2014, where they studied music production and sound engineering. They left the following year, and in
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invited them in for an interview and then started playing their music. Nyajo then began DJing when they were seventeen using FL Studio and released the EP
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with a friend in 2016 on the grounds that it was cheaper to live there. After finding a dwelling next to
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