@mellemusic.bsky.social
fighting for food sovereignty with an abolitionist lens 🍉 los angeles https://www.castaneafellowship.org/castanea-fellows/melissa-acedera/
Winter Produce Cooking Workshop at Stanford Student Coops with Tierras Milperas ❤️🌽
07.02.2026 04:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It’s always a trip to have your work presented back to you. Currently in the Bay Area for my mentee’s/student presentations
05.02.2026 04:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Full moon altar last night. Shoutout to all the earth daughters 🤲🏽🌽💗🪶
03.02.2026 03:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
field notes
19.01.2026 02:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
FILIPINO AF 😎🌺🇵🇭 lol
13.12.2025 23:45 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Gearing up for 2026 🤲🏽❤️🔥🌀
04.12.2025 18:09 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We’re doing a toy drive for children of unhoused families, farm workers, street vendors, day laborers and domestic workers.
Please pull up 12/19 @ Superchief Gallery, if you’re in L.A. 💕🌀
giving our respects 🪶
29.09.2025 00:42 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
new book
22.09.2025 21:13 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
bounty from a dear friend’s front + backyard 🌱💕
02.09.2025 01:14 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
new art ❤️🔥
25.08.2025 04:04 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Los Angeles, CA | August 2025
A family sets up in front of the detention center, blasting oldies with a live mariachi for their grandfather’s birthday — he’s inside.
The reality on the ground is much more heartbreaking than you think.
new pins 🤙🏾
23.08.2025 05:25 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
self portrait, summer 2025
15.06.2025 22:58 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0One of the hardest weeks of my life.
14.06.2025 02:32 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Los Angeles, plug in tomorrow 🤙🏾
07.06.2025 04:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Wrapped up my first quarter advising a multidisciplinary cohort of students under the Urban Humanities Initiative at the Urban Planning Department @ UCLA! So proud of the students 🌀♥️
06.06.2025 04:19 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Please come thru if you’re in the L.A. area, this Sunday @ 11am
17.05.2025 00:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
For any folks in the IE, my homie Alex will be the keynote for today’s symposium. Please check it out if you’re available!
15.05.2025 16:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Gifted myself some new art 🌾🤎
13.05.2025 20:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
❤️🌀
11.05.2025 02:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Stayed over an elder’s place last night. Woke up to a new friend hanging outside her window 🌀💗✨🐦
23.04.2025 13:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Drinking margaritas and telling ghost stories with my campesina comrades. Blissed out lol🌀👻💕
15.04.2025 04:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I’m in a mini documentary on our farmworkers in Coachella Valley with Sonia Baltoroni and Mily Treviño-Sauceda of Alianza Nacional de Campesinas
youtu.be/6wIUFYOj0Lg?...
Quick trip to Coachella Valley to celebrate my mentor’s birthday 🎉 💕🌱
And no, fuck that festival.
It makes such a big difference building with folks who center people with lived experiences and truly have the heart for this work — egos get checked at the door and so much good work gets done. I’m mad grateful for the food spaces I’m in rn. So much humility and power 🌀🫀
11.04.2025 03:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I’m already organizing with farmworker women turned farmers who grow food on land they own or lease. Purchasing direct from farms and bringing it into our neighborhoods will really change the game for food access and health. I’m very excited and so grateful to be part of this!
11.04.2025 02:47 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This has been in the works for the past 2 years. It started as a conversation in a working group thru the L.A. Food Policy Council Food Recovery working group, which quickly blossomed into this cooperative style hub. We’ll be centering our most vulnerable communities while supporting local farms 🫀🌽
11.04.2025 02:33 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Started something pretty special today. Hoping to revolutionize the way we move food in Los Angeles 🫡✊🏾🌽❤️
11.04.2025 02:29 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Moving in style thank you to the homies at Tierras Milperas 🌀💕🌺
09.04.2025 20:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
