🇱🇦 Rassamy💃🏽 (rahd-SAH-mee)

Group of west coast swing dancers posing at 4:30 am after dancing all night long.

Group of west coast swing dancers pretending to sleep after a night of dancing all night at MADjam.

Dance and joy as resistance. Thursday Breakfast Club crew, the last dancers dancing until 4:30 am @ #MADjam.

#westcoastswing #wcs #restonva

Saturday, January 10
5:00-5:45 pm Free #WestCoastSwing Absolute Beginner Lesson
6:00-7:00 pm All Levels #WCS Class w/ Rassamy
7:00-9:30 pm #Westie Social Dance w/ DJ Rassamy

#olympia

Flyer for Rassamy teaching and DJing West Coast Swing in Olympia.

Joy and dance is resistance. I am excited to share it with you tonight, Olympia!

#westcoastswing #dance #resistance

The wayy big hoodie unisex product on Costco app.

I try not to brag but I want to share that I had the most stolen gift at the white elephant gift exchange: The Wayy Big Hoodie from Costco on sale $19.99 (original $24.99).

#Costco #whiteelephant #christmas

😭

Screenshot of Reddit feed with post of iPhone pocket retailing for $149.95 right above a post from r/anticonsumption.

Me irl

#iphone #pocket #anticonsumption

YouTube video by Rassamy West Coast Swing dancing among Roman ruins at the Théâtre Gallo Romain

I have such fond memories of my trip to France. I am forever grateful for the privilege and opportunity to travel. youtu.be/aKIYkYDbvKk?...

#westcoastswing #france #lyon

🗣️ uploaded again with captions!!

Promo for SSDC Sunday November 2 Seattle west coast swing event.

Seattle West Coast Swing at SSDC Sunday tonight! Looking to try something new? Take the FREE beginner WCS lesson. seattleswingdanceclub.com/ssdc-sundays...

#westcoastswing #seattle #freedance #djrassamy #seattleswingdanceclub

Uh happy daylight savings, I guess?

Last summer, each kitty strayed from their litter and chose each of our kids, who found them in my parents backyard. Our teens are frank ocean fans.

Black cat and gray cat laying down butt to butt on window sill.

First Caturday of November with Frank and Ocean

#FrankAndOcean #catsofbluesky #cutecats

Because people think you're a bitch if you don't.

See also: add emoticons, softening qualifiers, and any other happy-go-lucky, no-worries-if-not! flair.

Black cat sleeping on fresh white bed sheets.

Sunday means hair wash day and fresh sheets. #Fwank appwoves.

#blackcat #Catsofbluesky #void #funnycat

Sunday funday with #FrankAndOcean

#graycat #blackcat #catsofbluesky #cutecats

Photo of side profile of Rassamy, an almost 40 year old Southeast Asian woman with slick back ponytail from highlighted dark hair.

My 12yo did my hair and I was feeling myself! I then quickly got down on my almost 40yo aging and how it ain’t like it used to be:

“It’s not balding, Mama; it’s just receding a little.” 🥹

#youreright #almost40 #fromthemouthofbabes #parenting #motherhood

I’m so happy to hear about you in good spirits! Thanks so much for showing up 💕 #NoKings

No Kings in Tukwila, WA

#Tukwila #Washington #Southcenter #NoKings #protest

“I love America more than any other country in the world, and exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”

~James Baldwin

Screenshot of Duo in a superhero girl costume on the Duolingo app.

Who is this diva? 💅 #duo #duolingo

Omg! Hello!

Black cat sleeping on human bed with really cute paws curled up.

I’m never leaving my bed.

#catsofbluesky #blackcat #void #Fwank

Show series still of Owen and Buffy from the series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Rewatching “Buffy” for the first time since middle school and learned that the actor, who played Owen from the first season, was born in Yakima, WA 🥹

#buffythevampireslayer #buffy #yakima #washington

Antifa mobile covered with graffiti art parked in Capitol Hill Seattle.

I’m never leaving Seattle.

#antifamobile #capitolhill #seattle #calandersonpark #seattlesky

No.

🥹

Either you're against fascism, or you're foolish enough to believe it won't come for you.

Reason #923 I’m glad I’m not on Facebook: West Coast Swing drama turned legal battles. Folks need to touch some grass.

All this to say, my parents are undereducated war refugees who also thought the American Dream meant a bachelors degree. Because they didn’t know better, often took out loans to fund it in addition to my aid, scholarships, and grants. The American Dream did us, and many others, dirty.

I now know how lucky I was to have had a stable decade-long teaching career and how toxic and volatile corporate work actually is. For our own children, I want to support them to make sound, smart, and thoughtful decisions and thankfully, our high schooler is interested in craftsman trade.