Earlier this year, we spoke with New York-based DJ and curator Sana, who unpacked what we called the “politics of presence” in dance music — the pressure to show up, be seen, and still somehow stay invisible. In a recent IG story, she doubled down on the exhaustion of performing identity while trying to push boundaries. “I personally struggle with ‘adapting’ my sets,” she wrote on her Instagram story, “to a more desi crowd and in the past have been a bit drained from doing this.”