Shout out to Black Eyed Peas, who performed in Poland at New Year concert sponsored and broadcasted nationwide by conservative state-owned tv station while wearing rainbow bands. Will.i.am then dedicated "Where Is The Love" to Jewish, POC and LGBTQ+ minorities facing discrimination worlwide.
After the concert will.i.am posted a statement to his socials saying that the band is called "Black Eyed Peas", not "Black Eyed PiS", PiS being the name of the current, extremely conservative, ruling party and repeated his message of love, peace and equality.
Yang: Aw~! You and your boyfriend are gonna sing a duet?
Ruby: Yeah! What about it?!
Whitley: Ruby...
Weiss: Leave them alone already, Xiao Long. Besides, I know my brother, and if there's one thing that I know for sure about him, it's that he only sings classic melodies.
Whitley: Well, it's not as much of a classic, but it's one Ruby and I feel is dated enough to be consider creating a... pianocore, I believe it's called?
Yang: Well, we'll leave you lovebirds to practice. Can't wait to see what "not classic" you two come up with.
Lmaoo the Black Eyed Peas just performed in the most popular polish new year’s eve tv programme, on the main (very conservative) tv channel while wearing rainbow arm bands
I come from a long line of people who raised hogs, smoked them in the earth as technique inherited from indigenous kin (who - more broadly - introduced the west to the method: more on that here!) and seasoned them beautifully.
so pork specifically meant a lot to my family... but it is also undeniably tied to hereditary health problems...
so here's a story on how we departed from that, what tradition even is, and what it means to me now ft the humble black eyed pea, for EATER!
some of my favorite panels:
find the recipe for Yoruba àkàrà in my new book, COOK LIKE YOUR ANCESTORS <3
listen can i be so fuckin fr. sam reid can wreck me. he can absolutely destroy me physically and emotionally. he could slice me in half with his jawline. he could punch me in the face. he can fuck my shit up… i’m talking like… the dick gave me a whole new host of mental disorders bc it was that good. got me in the psychiatric ward of a women’s hospital in the early aughts. got me actin like a victorian man seeing a woman’s ankles for the first time. got me kicking my feet and giggling for an immeasurable amount of time. got me callin servicepro to treat the flood water damage in my damn basement. i mean fuck. holy fuck. holy fuckin fuck.