ANTI-MASS isn’t letting the world forget Uganda’s queer community
thefader.comIndigenous legend says Lake Victoria is a magical place, inhabited by powerful spiritual beings. Both feared and revered in pre-colonial Uganda, these demi-gods would commune with trans and pangender shamans, who are said to embody the divine masculine and feminine energies of the lake.
Even now, there are many “occultic beliefs” about Lake Victoria, according to DJ and producer Authentically Plastic, who once visited the lake with ANTI-MASS co-founder Nsasi.
There, they dropped acid and heard the gods while swimming to an island in the distance. “The waves got really intense and crazy, and I started experiencing these auditory hallucinations of a very specific drum pattern,” Authentically Plastic recalls.
They place heavy emphasis on how both members of the queer Ugandan music collective barely “survived with our lives,” before realizing they’d heard “the same exact rhythm” while fighting against the chaos and confusion of the current..
