The Sixth Element is Love

Those dates you go on with your partner? They’re in public. Unmasked. Your server smiles at you. Everyone feels safe.

You can hug your friends.

You can see a movie. The people in the movie are gay people of color and they kiss and live happily ever after.

INGREDIENTS:

4 hamburger buns, split

1 head green leaf lettuce, leaves separated

1 beefsteak tomato, sliced

20 dill pickle slices

FOR THE CHICKEN

2 boneless, skinless chicken breasts

1 cup dill pickle juice

1 ½ cups milk, divided

1 cup peanut oil

1 large egg

½ cup all-purpose flour

1 tablespoon confectioners’ sugar

Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste

DIRECTIONS:

Place a chicken breast on a cutting board. With your hand flat on top of it, carefully slice the chicken in half horizontally. Trim excess fat as needed.

In a large shallow baking dish, combine chicken, pickle juice and ½ cup milk; marinate for at least 30 minutes. Drain well.

Heat peanut oil in a large skillet over medium high heat.

In another large shallow baking dish, whisk together remaining 1 cup milk and egg. Stir in chicken to coat and drain excess milk mixture.

In a gallon size Ziploc bag or large bowl, combine chicken, flour and confectioners’ sugar; season with salt and pepper, to taste.

Working in batches, add chicken to the skillet and cook until evenly golden and crispy, about 4-5 minutes. Transfer to a paper towel-lined plate.

https://www.tablespoon.com/recipes/copycat-chick-fil-a-nuggets/2b483ee0-a13e-4a3f-bf0b-9b26099c6e24

The chick fil a in Reading is closed. They never got their 6 month lease renewed.

They drew a lot of protests from local LGBT+ groups.

It took EIGHT days between them opening and The Oracle (the shopping centre they were in) announcing that the lease would not be renewed.

I’m cis because I’m afab and still identify as a woman. If I was afab and identified any other way, I’d be trans. I’m intersex because my body itself has a mixed bag of secondary sex characteristics and hormones.

The label “intersex” itself isn’t a gender identity as much as it’s a way for people with mixed or ambiguous sex characteristics to define that experience. There are cis men and women who are intersex, trans people of every kind as well. I’m sure there are intersex people who just identify as intersex entirely but most intersex people I’ve met still identify as male, female, or nonbinary. Because your body doesn’t determine your gender identity.

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That does Medieval musical covers of Pop songs. Let me tell you, it does NOT disappoint.

Pumped Up Kicks: https://youtu.be/cRIfsFefatg

Bad Romance: https://youtu.be/i2zpbcW-h-c

What is Love: https://youtu.be/Kbj4bulZX2Y

And that’s when I fell down the rabbit hole of Pop goes Medieval, apparently also know as “Bardcore”:

Paint It, Black: https://youtu.be/A9dhDkIZ5C4

Take me home country roads: https://youtu.be/OBCAR958jv

Sail: https://youtu.be/7N9Db9mPy4w

I Want to Break Free: https://youtu.be/ccuCzjFe8Ys

And my personal favourite: