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Ep. 6 Searching for Digital Traces

Ep. 6 Searching for Digital Traces

FromParty Crews: The Untold Story


Ep. 6 Searching for Digital Traces

FromParty Crews: The Untold Story

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Length:
33 minutes
Released:
Mar 14, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Before TikTok, Instagram and even – MySpace, party crew teens found ways to create communities online. One of these early social media sites was called Techno4.us — where Janice and Emmery both had profiles once upon a time. In T4’s heyday, party crew kids all over LA and beyond would connect through colorful and chaotic digital profiles where teens were showing their lives uncensored and on their own terms. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Released:
Mar 14, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (11)

For many Latinx kids in the ‘00s, the party crew scene was a safe space to express themselves as they came of age in the grit and glitter of Los Angeles. A space to make friends, forget about your problems and dance the night away. But the scene wasn’t always physically safe. There were shootings and police raids. Many adults saw the scene as gang-adjacent and the media fueled negative stereotypes of kids who were out of control. One of the teens who got caught in that easy narrative was Emmery Muñoz, after she was murdered in 2006. Host Janice Llamoca goes on a Y2K-filled journey back in time to her own party crew days to find out what this scene meant for teens like her and Emmery, and why – to this day – Emmery’s case remains unsolved. From iHeart, VICE, and LAist Studios in partnership with My Cultura Podcast Network