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 A recording artist since 1988, Chicago native Juba Kalamka (aka Pointfivefag, aka Jose Luis Microfono,aka Joe Louis Milk aka Coitus Mayfeel) is most recognized for his work as a founding member of critically aclaimed  "homohop" crew Deep Dickollective (D/DC) and his development of the label Sugartruck Recordings.

        Through Sugartruck, Kalamka coordinated the release,production and promotion of five D/DC albums, the Outmusic Award winning solo debut of Rocco "Katastrophe" Kayiatos, and the distribution of the work of numerous other artists in the homohop community.

Noted for his dialogues on the convergences and conflicts of race,identity, sexuality and class in pop culture, Kalamka has written and illustrated articles for Kitchen Sink, Colorlines, and the now-defunct bisexual issues magazine Anything That Moves.

Additionally, he has been a speaker, panelist, and curator for numerous organizations and conferences, among them the San Francisco Black Gay/Lesbian Film Festival, GLAAD, Hip Hop as a Movement at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Trinity College international Hip Hop Festival and  Burning Closets/Working Our Way Home at Oberlin College. in 2005 Kalamka was chosen to be one of six plenary speakers (and was Creating Change Award recipient) at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force's 2005 Creating Change Conference.

Kalamka served as Festival Director for East Bay (Oakland) Pride (2003) and was the curator/director of the  PeaceOUT World HomoHop Festival, which marked its seventh and final year in 2007. The success of PeaceOUT inspired the
creation of sister festivals in Portland, New York City Atlanta, and London,England.

Featured in the Alex Hinton documentary Pick Up The Mic, Kalamka also makes love to the camera in Good Vibrations' G Marks the Spot, Joani Blank's Orgasm!:Faces of Ecstasy,and punk legend Lynnee Breedlove's Godspeed:The Movie. Deep Dickollective's fifth and final disc, On Some Other, was released on Sugartruck in June 2007.His second solo recording, Ooogabooga Under Fascism,will be released in late 2009. His recent writings appears in the Annie Oakley anthology Working Sex(Seal Press,2007) and Total Chaos: the Art and Aesthetics of Hip Hop (Basic Civitas Books,2007).

Kalamka holds a BA in Art/Secondary Education from Chicago State University (1993) and an MFA in Poetics (minoring in Queer and Activist Performance) from the New College of California (2006). He lives in Oakland,California with his primary partner, their daughter, a neurotic standard poodle and a lovemongering cat.He practices polyamory both locally and globally.