/ honouring the goodness and bawdness of jamaican music culture

/ honouring the goodness and bawdness of jamaican music culture

A portrait of Ace Dillinger taken by Jorian Charlton. Ace has medium-brown skin and straight mid-length black hair with a shag cut and bangs. Ace is positioned in the centre-left of the frame, and she is lying down on a brown carpet in an industrial-

  • A portrait of Ace Dillinger taken by Jorian Charlton. Ace has medium-brown skin and straight mid-length black hair with a shag cut and bangs. Ace is positioned in the centre-left of the frame, and she is lying down on a brown carpet in an industrial-style space cast in a red and golden hue. She is wearing a black mesh shirt, black leather pants, a gold chain, and a gold ring. Her face rests on her hand as she looks straight towards the camera. Behind Ace is a yellow car with the word “FLEX” written in white letters on the windshield. Towards the left of the frame are two large black speakers (a soundsystem) with the logo ‘40hz’ spray painted on the front, next to a black backdrop.

“I would love to have, like, a queer Caribana. I would love that. That would be the sickest thing in the world.”

ACE DILLINGER

PARTY Part of the new wave of queer underground DJs holding down the city’s DIY raves and bashments, the self-taught DJ made her name as the house DJ of STRAPPED, a sex-positive party for Black and Brown women and non-binary folks.

HOMETOWN Downtown Toronto/Scarborough, ON

PEAK HOUR TUNE “Anything Classic House.”

RWD << “Yes Yes Y’all is a staple for me as a baby gay,” says Dillinger, who, like Bambii, also acknowledges the impact of MuchMusic VJs like Master T as well as Sook-Yin Lee had on the Toronto music scene. (“Those VJs shaped my understanding of music — what music is, and how important it is.” 

FWD >> A “queer Caribana”: “I would love to have a massive party in a park with dancehall and reggae being played, and everybody’s there: all the queer aunties and uncles, all the straight ones, all the questioning ones. All the youth are there, and everyone feels comfortable, and it is safe.”

INSTAGRAM @ace_dillinger

A flash photograph of a parked yellow car with the words “LAST FLEX” written in white all-caps on the windshield. The car is positioned in the centre of the frame, facing the camera, with the headlights partially out of the frame. The exterior of the

  • A flash photograph of a parked yellow car with the words “LAST FLEX” written in white all-caps on the windshield. The car is positioned in the centre of the frame, facing the camera, with the headlights partially out of the frame. The exterior of the car is well-lit and surrounded by darkness.