Melissa Acedera 🔻🇵🇭
@mellemusic.bsky.social
fighting for food sovereignty with an abolitionist lens 🍉 los angeles
https://www.castaneafellowship.org/castanea-fellows/melissa-acedera/
https://www.castaneafellowship.org/castanea-fellows/melissa-acedera/
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Having a conversation with my ancestors tonight 🤎🕯️
FILIPINO AF 😎🌺🇵🇭 lol
December 13, 2025 at 11:45 PM
FILIPINO AF 😎🌺🇵🇭 lol
Gearing up for 2026 🤲🏽❤️🔥🌀
December 4, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Gearing up for 2026 🤲🏽❤️🔥🌀
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