Pony Weeklies: What to do, where to dance
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Hi Ponies!
Geez, truly no point in saying “hope you’re doing well!” What a heavy week. Hard to even put words to it all.
Tomorrow in LA - and across the country - there are marches, protests, and gatherings across the city to stand up against fascism and FOR our communities. Here’s a national map. Pony team will be hitting them up before our 1:45PM class!
Social media has really been popping off with vital videos, community-led resources, and on-the-ground updates that aren’t being captured in mainstream news media. A few of many organizations in LA to support and follow:
LA Taco and LA Public Press - news by the people!
Feed the Streets LA - donate and volunteer to deliver meals/essentials to folks at home
The Relational Center (a total gem of a sliding-scale therapy space in LA) is offering free therapy for those directly affected by ICE raids and riots
CHIRLA / Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights has been leading this fight in LA since 1986 and is doing amazing work
Critical Resistance LA - We Keep Us Safe virtual Zoom training on identifying ICE and protecting our communities, Monday 6/16 from 6-7:30PM
National Day Laborer Organizing Network - bilingual guide on what you can do to protect immigrants and monitor ICE
Koreatown - flyer distribution effort happening Saturday 10AM (did you know you can print for free at the library using your library card?!). You can also access their folder of flyers HERE and put them up in your neighborhood whenever you want!
This week at our monthly team meeting, we set a goal to get 30 new subscribers before the end of June while we’re running our sale! Can you help us meet this goal?! There has never been a lower price! Support Pony Sweat - and enjoy our incredible video subscription and online offerings, if you want to / if you choose to - for as low as $11.25/month (month to month) or $9.25/month (50% off our one year subscription with code LEZDOIT50).
Culture writer Emma Specter wrote about her experience coming to Pony Sweat in freakin’ VOGUE! Thank you, Emma!!! Can’t wait to dance with you again soon. We love the article <3
I don’t know exactly what it was about Pony Sweat that got me out of my shell and happily dancing around to combinations I’d never seen or tried before, but I’m guessing it was a combination of the gloriously retro ’80s soundtrack, the unbridled enthusiasm of the dancers around me (many of whom, like me, weren’t perfectly on beat and didn’t seem to have any prior familiarity with the workout), and the instructor, Emilia, shouting what I’m now turning into a kind of exercise mantra: “Fuck the moves.” I ended the hour-long class with sore calves and an exhausted glow, driving home as fast as I could to gush about Pony Sweat to my boyfriend and prebook my best friend to attend the following week’s class with me—and although I might have expected to feel good after the class, what really surprised me was how much fun I had during and how little clock watching I did as I bopped around.
Coming up:
Malia is teaching this Saturday 1:45PM class (also LIVESTREAMED!!), Jaquita is leading Monday 7PM community class, Malia Wednesday 10:15AM class! Both of their June mixtapes are very high energy and I love them because they have a lot of opportunities for EXPRESSING RAGE and GOING HAM (if you want to / if you choose to, always!). Firestarter (The Prodigy) and Breed (Nirvana) as song 5 (aka #2 cardio song) on each other mixtapes is CHEF’S KISS PERFECT!
+ good news, Emilia is BACK in action for a very special Saturday 1:45PM June 21st class with a queer bangers playlist. Since it is Pride, we have a $10 (+ fees) in-person ticket code for self-identified queers, the code is doyouwanttofunk. Feel free to use this code if you financially need it regardless of how you identify. COME PARTY WITH US!!! ;)
PRIDE CLASS WILL ALSO BE LIVESTREAMED! Proceeds from the online class will be donated to a queer org/fund that we will announce later this month.
Help make us make it the gayest class of the year with joy, dancing and actions toward liberation!
+ bonus chance to dance @ Zebulon’s Pride party with DJs Romy (whose songs we have danced to many times) and Ravedad (who you may have danced next to in class!) on June 21st ! free and fun! 10PM-2AM!
Love you Ponies very much! Sending so much love and tenderness. Hope to dance with you soon. Scream-dancing in community truly helps!!!
xoxo
Isabel