Womankind

Katrine Ring

When I was young, I could work for 48 hours straight, drinking gin at the same time, and I’d be perfectly fine the next day. But not today. Tonight, I am playing until five in the morning, but I’ll take a power nap during the day or I won’t get through the night!

I make a lot of noise. That’s my job. I’ve been a DJ for the past 30 years. I’ve never had a proper job, except for when I was 18 and delivered books to bookstores for six months. At 58, I am the oldest DJ making a living out of it. The typical DJ is a male between around

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