Nigerian Pride 🏳️‍🌈🇳🇬

Hemlocke Springs (alt rock/new wave revival),

the Noisettes (indie),

Skunk Anansie (hard rock/metal),

Tamar Kali (rock/punk),

Valerie June (country/blues),

Santigold (indie),

Bloc Party (post punk revival/indie rock),

O Children (goth),

Lord Scary Black (goth),

Cemetery Sex (death rock)

deepincision (heavy metal)

zulu (metal)

black pantera (rock, metal)

winter wolf (punk, metal)

erzulie (punk, rock)

youth man (punk)

the 1865 (punk)

crystal axis (punk)

pleasure venom (post-punk/hard rock)

the rack (they describe their sound as “hard pop rock”, blends punk vocals and rock)

danny denial (indie punk/rock, queer)

gloom east (alt/indie rock, moody pop blend)

big joanie (synth punk + some more melodic, blues-like tones)

madame st beatrice (gothic, moody and melodic)

shadow age (goth)

saccharin (goth)

the ire (goth, punk)

bastet (goth punk)

Stilletto (Glam Metal - I haven't been able to find them on Spotify so EP on youtube)

Mother's Finest (Funk Glam Metal)

People's Choice (Funk rock)

Straight Line Stitch (Nu Metal)

Grace Jones (Disco, Reggae, Rock)

Buddy Miles (Blues, Funk Rock)

Robert Cray (Blues) and the Robert Cray Band

Chaka Khan (Soul, Blues, Rock)

Body Count (Thrash Rap/Rap Metal)

Ghost Hounds (Country Rock Blues)

Thin Lizzy (Hard Rock/Classic Heavy Metal)

King's X (Rock)

Zulu (Nu Metal/Death Metal)

Suicidal Tendencies (Heavy Metal)

Buddy Guy (Blues)

BB King (Blues)

John Lee Hooker (Blues)

Lucky Peterson (Blues)

Skindred (Reggae Metal)

Keb'Mo' (Country Influenced Blues)

Stuck Mojo (Rap Metal)

Overthrust (Doom/Death Metal)

Arka'n Asrafokor (Death influenced Folk Metal)

Dividing The Element (Death influenced Folk Metal)

Fishbone (Ska, Funk, Punk, Rock)

Michael Burks (Blues)

Living Color (Funk Metal)

Prophets of Rage (Punk Rap Metal Supergroup)

Wrust (Thrash/Death Metal)

Vale of Amonition (Death? Doom? Nu Metal)

April Kae (Bassist and singer)

A Band Called Pain (Blues Rock, Blues Grunge?)

Bad Brains (Punk)

Shemekia Copeland (Blues)

Skinflint (Folk influenced Heavy Metal)

Cypress Hill (Rock influenced Hip Hop)

George Clinton and Parliment Funkadelic (Funk)

Ida Corr (Dance, Electronica, Disco Influenced)

War (Classic Rock, Reggae Rock)

Johnny Nash (70s rock)

A necromancer AND a gardener (5 year redesign) 🌸

It’s okay

Way back in the early days, it was where black performers in Vaudeville were legendary for it in Jazz and Jive routines. At about 1:37, this is where the Nicholas brothers go off.

I've got a crush on you 💘

Two people do not decide that they are "courting". One person decides to "court" someone else. It's an action, not a stage in the relationship. A man decides to court a woman because he wants to encourage her to have romantic interest in him. He's trying to win her favor. It's not an exclusive relationship--a woman could be courted by multiple men at once. She'll spend time getting to know the guy who's interested in her, but they won't officially define their relationship as one where they only show romantic interest in each other. If they reach a point where they want it to be exclusive, that's when you propose.

bizarrely, America has in many ways gotten more conservative about dating since World War II.

Also, following this, I asked my mom what her thoughts were on the matter, and she said that while she “wouldn’t put it in those terms” she broadly agreed, and thought that anyone expecting any sort of exclusivity when a marriage proposal wasn’t at least on the very immanent horizon was “nuts, honestly.” I hesitantly asked if she was including relationships with premarital sexual activity in that, and her response was “Of course. I mean, gosh, you know your Aunt Terri used to have a guy for every day of the week before she finally settled down.”

And this was when I learned, to my shock, that the oft-repeated story of how “Aunt Terri used to have a guy for every day of the week” didn’t just mean “Aunt Terri had a full dance card” but rather meant that Aunt Terri had a period of her life where she literally dated exactly seven guys at once, all of whom she was sleeping with (or, my mom was quick to disclaim, “well, fooling around with, I don’t know how far she actually went with any of them, but they were definitely all fooling around behind closed doors”), on a literal weekly rotation. Like, they had a schedule. A schedule that all seven of the guys knew.

You can read about it here: https://minds-africa.org/fabric-map-of-africa-the-art-of-storytelling/

update on my latest knitting project…

the long awaited update: i finished it! for notes and things, you can see the project on ravelry here!

by @/truongsauce on instagram! :)

notes: i used rice wine vinegar instead of sake and tbh…. it is an excellent swap. makes the sauce soo tangy >:) i didn’t have potato starch on hand either so i used cornstarch– still super super good! i suspect that potato starch would make them more toothsome/chewy, but i couldnt find any, and as is i think the super soft smooth inside + crispy skin + sticky sauce is like. god tier food!!!