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Salimatu Amabebe! Last chance for Jan merch! Bonus animal pics!

Added 2021-01-25 05:59:17 +0000 UTC

Hey everyone,

Hope you're all hanging in there. This week on the show, I am thrilled to officially introduce you to Salimatu Amabebe, Black Feast founder / multimedia artist / vegan + gluten-free chef / photographer / filmmaker / model / writer / genius / angel / perfect being. (Can you tell that I love him????)

(Fun fact.... this is my kitchen.)

In this week's episode, we talk about the past (including how Salimatu crashed a party by... being born) and the future (Salimatu moving to Berkeley, which is now the past but was the future at the time! Time is weird.) Topics also include:

How being Black and Nigerian-American has influenced the way Salimatu experiences gender
Using new pronouns in print before telling your family you're trans (relatable!)
Why we should probably all raise our dating standards
Realizing you've been doing drag this whole time
Salimatu's brilliant TV show idea about queerness and pleasure and food doms
and more!

If you'd like to learn more about Salimatu and Black Feast, I suggest following him on instagram (@salimatuamabebe) and checking out these (now outdated) profiles I wrote about him for Travel Portland and Portland Monthly :)

In merch news, this is the last week to shop our January designs, so head over to bit.ly/gendermerch if you're into that sort of thing.

Honestly, I think that's all my news for this week! Not much happens in quarantine winter other than working and gradually losing my ability to have human interactions lol.

Check your feeds tomorrow morning for a new episode featuring Hil Malatino, author of Trans Care. I asked Hil for a few photos I could share to promote the show, and he DID NOT DISAPPOINT. Here's a sneak peek.

Hey, thanks for being here and supporting the show. It really means the world to me that you, uh, listen to my podcast? And, like, enjoy it, seemingly?

Love u so much. Here's some extra special Weekly Rhubarbs.