Christine Kakaire is an award-winning culture iournalist, critic, teacher and editorbased in Berlin. She currently writes a bi-monthly column for Berlin nightclub Berghain, and lectures in popular music culture and critical theory. Her bylines have been published by Ableton, Boiler Room, Crack, Groove, Pit- chfork, Resident Advisor and The Face. Christine Ka- kaire leads the Black Creative Database, an initiative of the community platform Black Artist Database, and she is a member of the editorial team at CTM festival.