With the new fundraiser EP out, here's a little more info about Secret Rivers.
I want to underline the note about booking, especially in this ongoing season of benefit shows. Whether instrumental live production by @seemore.bsky.social, or a full fire-and-brimstone set from us both, get in touch:
"If there is a vision to build around, perhaps it is this: resist the urge to flatten Iranian political imagination into frameworks that feel legible to those of us in the West, and invest in the social foundations that make any sustainable change possible." - Yalda Keshavarzi
Weaving our Worlds has compiled resources and diverse left perspectives from and on Iran. Rather than reduce Iran to various intra-left ideological debates, these provide analysis based in the context, specificity and history.
www.weavingourworlds.ca/iran-resourc...
We passed pause evictions, save lives. Now it’s on Mayor Frey’s Desk— please reach out to his office to support this critical legislation and not to veto it. Call: 612-673-2100
Families will face evictions without adequate time to get funds together for rent.
Tell your Members of Congress to take action immediately and call for the release of Leqaa Kordia from ICE detention - email/call tool: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
We need your help bringing two pregnant women back home from ICE detention! Their loved ones and community are asking for financial assistance to support the family during these difficult times.
givebutter.com/bring-pregna...
Thanks to everyone who checked out our virtual performance tonight + who purchased “spring is coming” on bandcamp - raised about $1k in just one day for the NHN Twin Cities ICE relief fund. Hope to keep it going.
Links here to the EP, the fundraiser, and some other creative resistance resources:
cats watching tv will never not be hilarious to me
Hahahaha
last reminder - come hag out with us on the internet tonight at 7pm central
(I caught the typo before hitting “post” but you know what, no, let’s actually hag out)
Direct link: www.youtube.com/live/NJk9nUG...
They've now killed four people -- three U.S. citizens and a Mexican national. They've shot several more.
They've lied about all of them. They haven't shaded the truth. They haven't "misled" us. They've brazenly, knowingly lied while in possession of the evidence disproving their lies.
a screenshot of a youtube live scheduled for 7pm on 3/7/26: "salt sounds: a virtual ICE OUT performance and fundraiser featuring secret rivers and skyspiders!"
Thanks to everyone who picked up our new fundraiser EP! If you missed it, SPRING IS COMING: secretrivers.bandcamp.com
Tonight at 7pm central, join me, @seemore.bsky.social and @katparent.bsky.social for a VIRTUAL release show and performance: guante.info/salt
thank you!
Just bought this! Sounds cool, and goes to the best of causes! Check it out!
I know it's a lot of promo today, but:
1) it's bandcamp friday, when artists get max $ from the platform
2) that money isn't going to me; the album is a rent relief fundraiser
3) the EP opens with a clip from an Octavia Butler interview that flows into one of the best 24 bar verses I've written:
😭 this is so disorienting
One serious thought. Beyond the title, this specific song is one of the most cathartic and angry and hopeful things I've written (I even say swears in it, a rare treat). I hope it can be useful to others, or at LEAST that the goofy title gets attention for the fundraiser.
My mistake - they were BOTH were teenagers, both citizens.
"There is no neutral here. There is a community who is making demands, and there’s a Trump administration who is trying to use corporations to do its bidding. They have a decision to make."
workdaymagazine.org/why-target-i...
"And when the discourse of the powerful is evil on one side and indifference on the other, let your heart be a whistle. Loud, piercing, taking up as much space as possible, a reminder that the call is not to say something perfect; it is to make noise."
thanks so much for sharing!
[to] the god that lives in your fist
when you fight for something worth fighting for,
what more could life be for, on the brink?
eye of sauron looked right at my city;
we made it blink
(from what I shared)
Minneapolis should be modeling to other cities what it means to show up for each other. We've seen that in people-powered mutual aid work, but the city can and must take action at a larger scale. "Pause Evictions, Save Lives" is smart policy. It is also the right thing to do.
thank you!
A black and white photo of KTM/Guante (wearing a whistle and a “shut down ICE” shirt) and SEE MORE PERSPECTIVE (wearing a poncho, beads and sunglasses) plus the text “Secret Rivers”
an album cover: graffiti-style text: "spring is coming" by secret rivers, featuring hazy artwork of a warm sun rising over greenery, with ice melting into a puddle.
New music! SECRET RIVERS is me and @seemore.bsky.social, and 100% of the proceeds from this project go to the Neighbors Helping Neighbors Twin Cities ICE Relief Fund.
It's also Bandcamp Friday, so the platform doesn't even take a cut if you get it today: secretrivers.bandcamp.com
😭 you're literally the first person to hear this song
"ICE presence has expanded across Minnesota, especially in the past three weeks. Funds will be distributed between metro-area and greater Minnesota rent relief."
Another rent relief effort, this one from MN organization Voices for Racial Justice:
I profiled Jason Chavez, the Minneapolis city council member who has been embedded in community efforts to combat ICE.
“To leave your constituents to face off with a racist fascist regime on their own, without having someone that has some power…I could not let my constituents be out there alone.”
A save the date graphic featuring photos of KTM, SMP, and Kat Parent, with text: saturday, 3/7/26 (7pm ct): a virtual live performance (1) for a moment in which we’re not all able to leave our homes to go to a show; (2) for an excuse to raise money for an important MN rent relief effort; (3) for an opportunity to share some new songs and poems! More info: guante.info/salt
Releasing some NEW music friday, then a virtual performance saturday with me, @seemore.bsky.social and @katparent.bsky.social. All proceeds from both going to the Neighbors Helping Neighbors Twin Cities ICE Relief Fund. More info: guante.info/salt
3 ICE agents got McDonald’s and then went on a joy ride through the neighborhood tonight around 1 AM. This has nothing to do with public safety and is all about terrorizing people and burning through taxpayer dollars. This is why we can’t rest until every last agent leaves our state.
It's cool that it's still possible to be awed by a live performance:
“I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven’t lived in blood and bone. That doesn’t mean I want my people bombed, killed, their homes in ruins.” - Sahar Delijani
