Melissa Acedera 🔻🇵🇭
@mellemusic.bsky.social
fighting for food sovereignty with an abolitionist lens 🍉 los angeles
https://www.castaneafellowship.org/castanea-fellows/melissa-acedera/
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Having a conversation with my ancestors tonight 🤎🕯️
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. 💕🌀
Please pull up 12/19 @ Superchief Gallery, if you’re in L.A. 💕🌀
November 15, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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. 💕🌀
Please pull up 12/19 @ Superchief Gallery, if you’re in L.A. 💕🌀
One of my dearest friends and current poet laureate for Hawaii, Brandy Nālani McDougall, is in town from UH-Manoa. I had the honor of watching her read her poetry at Fullerton College yesterday. I’m so happy she’s visiting with her two beautiful daughters 💖✨🌀🌱🤲🏽
October 10, 2025 at 2:10 AM
One of my dearest friends and current poet laureate for Hawaii, Brandy Nālani McDougall, is in town from UH-Manoa. I had the honor of watching her read her poetry at Fullerton College yesterday. I’m so happy she’s visiting with her two beautiful daughters 💖✨🌀🌱🤲🏽
giving our respects 🪶
September 29, 2025 at 12:42 AM
giving our respects 🪶
bounty from a dear friend’s front + backyard 🌱💕
September 2, 2025 at 1:14 AM
bounty from a dear friend’s front + backyard 🌱💕
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.
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.
August 23, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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.
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.
self portrait, summer 2025
June 15, 2025 at 10:59 PM
self portrait, summer 2025
One of the hardest weeks of my life.
June 14, 2025 at 2:32 AM
One of the hardest weeks of my life.
Los Angeles, plug in tomorrow 🤙🏾
June 7, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Los Angeles, plug in tomorrow 🤙🏾
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 🌀♥️
June 6, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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 🌀♥️
Please come thru if you’re in the L.A. area, this Sunday @ 11am
May 17, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Please come thru if you’re in the L.A. area, this Sunday @ 11am
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!
May 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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!
Gifted myself some new art 🌾🤎
May 13, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Gifted myself some new art 🌾🤎
Stayed over an elder’s place last night. Woke up to a new friend hanging outside her window 🌀💗✨🐦
April 23, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Stayed over an elder’s place last night. Woke up to a new friend hanging outside her window 🌀💗✨🐦
Drinking margaritas and telling ghost stories with my campesina comrades. Blissed out lol🌀👻💕
April 15, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Drinking margaritas and telling ghost stories with my campesina comrades. Blissed out lol🌀👻💕
Reposted by Melissa Acedera 🔻🇵🇭
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?...
youtu.be/6wIUFYOj0Lg?...
El lado oscuro de Coachella: así viven los campesinos mexicanos en EE. UU. | @ajplusespanol
YouTube video by AJ+ Español
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March 27, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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?...
youtu.be/6wIUFYOj0Lg?...
Quick trip to Coachella Valley to celebrate my mentor’s birthday 🎉 💕🌱
And no, fuck that festival.
And no, fuck that festival.
April 14, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Quick trip to Coachella Valley to celebrate my mentor’s birthday 🎉 💕🌱
And no, fuck that festival.
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 🌀🫀
April 11, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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 🌀🫀
Started something pretty special today. Hoping to revolutionize the way we move food in Los Angeles 🫡✊🏾🌽❤️
April 11, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Started something pretty special today. Hoping to revolutionize the way we move food in Los Angeles 🫡✊🏾🌽❤️
Moving in style thank you to the homies at Tierras Milperas 🌀💕🌺
April 9, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Moving in style thank you to the homies at Tierras Milperas 🌀💕🌺
It’s the 4th season of Garden Club 🪴💕 in South Central LA hosted by Heal2Gether & CAT911 South Central
April 8, 2025 at 1:47 PM
It’s the 4th season of Garden Club 🪴💕 in South Central LA hosted by Heal2Gether & CAT911 South Central
I love my new corn earrings so much! A gift from my campesina homies 🌽💕
April 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I love my new corn earrings so much! A gift from my campesina homies 🌽💕
Reposted by Melissa Acedera 🔻🇵🇭
Palestinian children in Gaza are so hungry that they’re drawing pictures of food in the sand, according to a Gaza reporter, as the population is being starved by the most brutal form of Israel’s aid blockade yet for the past three weeks.
Children in Gaza Are So Hungry They’re Drawing Pictures of Food in the Sand
Israel has blocked all aid from entering Gaza for over three weeks, the longest total aid blockade so far.
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March 27, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Palestinian children in Gaza are so hungry that they’re drawing pictures of food in the sand, according to a Gaza reporter, as the population is being starved by the most brutal form of Israel’s aid blockade yet for the past three weeks.