Good morning!
Welcome to Issue 51.3 of Digestable, your thrice-weekly mouthful of real things happening in the world, minus alarmist pandemic news.
Today’s news, fermented:
This bird hasn’t been seen for 172 years, which let me tell you, is how I felt about this Friday when it finally came around.
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Caro's Advice Corner
Dear reader,
Bet you weren’t expecting to have this week’s advice turned back on you...I’m just kidding. Although I did want to take the time this week to remind y’all to write in to carosadvicecorner@gmail.com with your questions! Make them as juicy, serious, or as silly as you want!
I also want to take a moment to extend solidarity to friends and loved ones from the Asian American and Pacific Islander community this week. It has been an emotionally exhausting week, and I extend my love to all of those processing this week’s events. I vow to call out hate and racism whenever I am witness to it, and call upon readers that do not identify as AAPI to do the same.
I leave you with a small piece of advice this week -- to those processing and working through tough and painful feelings this week, take care of yourself. Get offline, unplug from social media, and take time to be present with yourself. For those of us learning how we can better support our friends that are hurting right now, learn, process and take action. I am committing myself to further learning in my own Latine context and encourage readers to do the same. I additionally encourage readers to put that stimulus money to good use and donate to organizations such as Red Canary Song and Asian Americans Advancing Justice.
I leave you today somber, but full of love. And I extend that love to all of us processing not just the events that unfolded this week, but the pain that comes with experiencing hate in our communities. Dear reader, shut your eyes, open your arms, and come in for the biggest bear hug I could possibly give you.
With love and in solidarity,
Caro
DJ M0RO’s low-key Music Show
Playing DJ at the party is one of my favorite roles (whatever, okay?) so obviously I’ve been having so much fun here at Digestable, curating this collection of new music in quarantine. But nothing really hits like actually sharing music with strangers, dancing together and letting the sound move you.
So when I saw this quarantine DJ meta-djed by @eggs.tyrone I just actually fell to the floor. The whole account is just videos of people dancing, with an unsuspecting genre of song playing, at just the right beat so as to look intentional. I’m confident this general concept exists many places on the internet, but this particular portfolio is just... *chef’s kiss.*
The album I can’t stop thinking about right now is Valerie June’s latest The Moon and Stars: Prescriptions for Dreamers. The way she weaves her poetry and light and whimsy over soulful, orchestral, and downright funky jams...just, yes.
I feel so lucky that I once got to see her in concert (in person, up close, omg) and if you want a little taste of her indefinable magic, watch the video and just try not to fall hard. My standout song at the moment is Smile and if you’ve read this far I dare you to turn it on and dance around your kitchen.
**featured pod** is obviously Subvert because you know Lena’s got a whole dang podcast! Episode three is out bay-bee and it’s got treaties, it’s got loopholes, it’s got coordinated corporate meddling in global leadership, and it’s also like all around really great?! They got it all folks. K now go get fired up about dismantling capitalism, have a great weekend ya’ll!
*Hot Goss*
Back next week from the superb Latifah Azlan.