Local Fruit

Ash Aranda + Paola Ramírez
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  • SOCIETY & CULTURE
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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.

Episodes

  1. 05/22/2023

    OCEAN

    Oh no, I accidentally dropped my fresh fruit in the ocean. MF DOOM - Lavender Buds grouptherapy. - FUNKFEST Murder She Wrote Animal Crossing Remix

    31 min
  2. FIGS

    06/20/2022

    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.

    1h 18m
  3. NOPAL

    03/07/2022

    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.

    1h 29m
  4. PEACH

    12/19/2021

    PEACH

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

    54 min

  5. 09/27/2021

    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

  6. 08/15/2021

    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

    49 min

  7. 08/01/2021

    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.

    47 min

  8. 06/28/2021

    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

  9. 06/07/2021

    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 2localfruit@gmail.com. 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 f*****g 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

    59 min

  10. 05/16/2021

    BLUEBERRY

    So what is motherhood beside someone telling you they had a premonition in a dream that you shouldn’t go out dancing this weekend and you consider not going because it sounds like- really serious. This week the Local Fruit chat to you about motherhood. We share the wax and wane of our relationships to our mothers, what makes us feel nurtured, and what gifts we hope to extend to our mothers within their lifetime. We leave you with the poem Amor eterno by Yesika Salgado.  appetizerz:  Latinxparenting  4 x Beyonce  Sheena is a Punk Rocker x The Ramones the feast:  noodz PCOS body liberation #blackmaternalhealth & #maternalmentalhealth are very active tags on different social media platforms. England Smith / @the_england_smith  @bassonthefloor + @ayy.punk on Instagram Ongoing Playlist  after party: Kehlani wants to get you pregnant Brown Babies x Rocky Rivera  vasos vacios x Los Fabulosos Cadillacs  Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong

    1h 19m

  11. 04/17/2021

    DRAGONFRUIT

    A good story starts at the beginning: for our sophomore episode, we take you home. This episode covers the rematriation of Indigenous land, the movies in our minds, creating homes within ourselves through the internet, and our commitments to care for the land and other living beings. Our poet of choice this week is Tommy Pico who writes streams of consciousness like no other, especially in this section here from Junk. You can find @localfruit.pod news, pao and ash on Instagram. Please take care before indulging in some content, sites like doesthedogdie provide a trigger warning search engine - put in what you’re thinking of watching and it mindfully lists possible triggers.  Quick Smoothie: Tovaangar - City of Ghosts Ep4 To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Neymar! trailer Gentefied trailer The Juice: Boy Directed by Taika Waititi Taika’s Oscar Win Speech Reading Nanook’s Smile by Michelle H. Raheja Issuma Igloolik Productions + Issuma Summary  @artista_celeste for Samantha's art Indigenous Tiktok Comp Account Juan Gabriel's  El Noa Noa + Hasta Que Te Conocí Sweet Time by Raveena  After Party Bites: Sogorea te Land Trust Recommended Reading Waterways Throughout Indigenous Los Angeles A Celebration of Friendship NYT

    1h 9m
  12. HONEYDEW MELON

    04/03/2021

    HONEYDEW MELON

    Join the two local fruit as they introduce themselves, renew their vows, and invite you into their imagination playground. Send us some love @localfruit.pod on Instagram and leave us a kiwi emoji on our latest post if you like what you hear or make it to the end! We leave you with this wonderful piece from Danez Smith, entitled my bitch! in celebration of each other. Obviously, listen to SZA's CTRL after this.

    37 min
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About

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

Information

  • Creator
    Ash Aranda + Paola Ramírez
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2023
  • Episodes
    12
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Ash Aranda + Paola Ramírez
  • Show Website
    Local Fruit