08/13/2026
INTERVIEW with Kallai / Recently on The J-Card Podcast, Alexei Shishkin had the great pleasure of talking to Cate Hukle, founder of the Darkgaze project Kallai and the Dreamgaze PDX festival.
In this lovely conversation, Cate talks us through the creation of ‘We Are Forever,’ a defiant and beautiful album that mixes mythology with the present day to assert and assure that trans people have always been here, and will always be here.
We also talk about the fun and frantic aspects of running your own festival, the Portland scene, meeting her wife on MySpace through Riot Grrrl recs, a short lived Misfits covers band, the influence of Angel Diaz and much more.
Catch the whole thing on YouTube, Substack, etc - https://tapeclub.substack.com