Local Fruit

Local Fruit

By Ash Aranda + Paola RamírezSociety & Culture
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Local Fruit episodes

  • OCEAN

    Oh no, I accidentally dropped my fresh fruit in the ocean.


    MF DOOM - Lavender Buds

    grouptherapy. - FUNKFEST

    Murder She Wrote Animal Crossing Remix


    32 min
  • FIGS
    When we first decided that we were gonna embark on this podcast chapter of our journey, we knew that one of the people we wanted to talk to publicly was Chad Onianwa. We typed their name out again and again in our digital scribbles, because there is simply nothing Chad is not doing, and we need y’all to know that there are folks like them out here doing public necessary writing that is both thriving and cultivating a necessary community, on and offline. Without further ado, here is FIGS, our latest cartoony fine ass episode, the 3rd of season 2.
    1 hr 19 min
  • NOPAL

    Long time, no hear darlings. Welcome back to season two, with NOPAL, as dedicated to our many therapists, chicken alfredo, tenderness and our cousins.

    1 hr 29 min
  • PEACH

    This one's dedicated to bell hooks, peach cobbler, courage, and our youngest siblings. 

    54 min
  • JÍCAMA

    We made it to the end of szn 1 fruits. Thank you for all your ears in these last 10 sessions of us figuring out what we care about (what’s this podcast even about?). In this episode we talk rest, how we do it, what makes it hard, and encourage you to clock out and quit your job (what else is new?) We’ll be back in November with new eyes and the same thicc ass hearts. Season 2 coming soon! 10 reviews and we might be back faster, who knooooowwwws.

    41 min
  • BLACK CHERRY
    For this second to last episode of szn 1, the fruit host their first guest, the one and only Anthony D. Boynton II (he/they/ursula). They talks us through cyclical time, their relationships to nerdom, and their tumultuous love affair with academia. Anthony is a brilliant scholar, friend, and writer. You can laugh with them @ADBoyntonII on twitter and read their piece Queer People are More than Our Deaths here. Our poem offering is I saw Emmett Till this week at the grocery store by Eve L. Ewing.
    Anthony’s Recommended Reading List:
    Kindred by Octavia Butler
    Black No More by George Schyuler
    More sci-fi ish:
    Dirty Computer Emotion Picture
    Tron Legacy
    Beasts of the Southern Wild
    50 min
  • STRAWBERRY

    Can oversharers keep a secret? Turns out, they can’t. In episode 9 we spill our guts. Listen to the Local Fruit figure out when lying is okay and what purpose secrets serve in their lives. We also share some of our lovely listener's juicy submitted stories and secrets! Show notes are still under construction, but rate and review while you're here! Need even more? Check out localfruit.carrd.co for more ways of keeping up with and supporting us! Stay secretive, stay sexy.

    48 min
  • KIWI
    Come ride along on our homoromantic journey. We finally answer: are we besties or lovers? The answer is, always both. In this episode we re-commit to bestie supremacy and we ask ourselves why! The joy of found family in friendship keeps our boats afloat and we talk about all things better done with company.
    i say a little prayer - aretha franklin This reminds Pao of Ash.
    peridot and lapis
    abbi and ilana
    molly and issa
    the buzzfeed quiz we took
    an Atlantic article on folks who lead lives with their besties 
    come over - the internet This reminds Ash of Pao.
    @emolina.art
    precious friendship moment on the internet
    cayendo - frank ocean (sango remix) This reminds J of the two of us.
    46 min
  • MANGO
    Episode six is brought to you by SZA and the sheer strength CTRL provided for late twentytens collegiate baddies. Consider this a first chapter in our probably multi-episodic lifelong joint poetic epic on parties! In this one, we’re organizing feelings on shame, drugs, and what it meant to party like it was 1999 in 2019. It’s our first juicy episode of the summer, and we hope you sink in like a refreshing bite of cool mango.
    Support our work by purchasing merch at bonfire.com/localfruit or listening to the first five episodes of this season! Find us on Instagram @localfruit.pod or on Beyoncé’s internet at localfruit.carrd.co .
    59 min
  • PAPAYA

    Is laughing at your trauma jokes a love language? We get meta on every episode but this one’s for those of us who like to open our friends' fridges and fall asleep on their floors and furniture after eating their food and flirting! We talk about our models for intimacy and realize language is what showed us our hearts. We bring honor to the intimate spaces we’ve been a part of. Who or what are your guiding stars when it comes to intimacy of any kind? Who reminds you of intimacy in your own ecosystem and how can you tenderly connect today? Write to us amores, we welcome ballads at [email protected]. Our invitation to healing poetry this week is brought to you by Angel Nafis, with “Ode to Shea Butter”. Remember, rhythm over time! 

    appetizerz: 

    Honey x Kehlani  

    The shared solo in I Care at Beychella

    Frances Ha Trailer 

    FKA TWIGS apple commercial

    Talk that Talk x Rihanna  

    Hanif in the middle of the goddamn theater 

    the feast: 

    They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraquib 

    All About Love: New Visions (Love Song to the Nation) by bell hooks

     Kira Kira by Cynthia Kadohota 

    Jenna Wortham’s Instagram

    Your furniture is not gonna fucking teach you how to Dougie.  

    Joy by Alysia Harris  

    como la flor & sabor a mi by Jasper Bones 

    affirmation by paola

    after party: 

    Fran Tirado with the bath selfies 

    Sweet Life x Frank Ocean  

    Amárrame x Mon Laferte 

    Love poem to a butch woman, deborah a miranda

    Mystic Soul: Queer Witchy Conference Where Pao got the Words 

    1 hr

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Two best friends navigate media, culture, relationships and dreams with each other, building an audiovisual call for justice, hope, imagination and love.