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Just a couple-a queerdos, eating fruit, trying to figure it out...Weird Fruits is hosted by Stevie Mae (they/she) and Mary Lou (she/her), two queer Oregonian transplants from bumf*ck towns across the country. Throughout each episode, they literally eat fruit together while exploring choice topics, sometimes with guests.StevieMary (a common colloquialism among their friend group) met in 2015 as co-workers at "the children's farm home" (a misleadingly idyllic name for residential kid jail). They grew closer and queerer as the years went on, embracing each other's capital W Weird. Their ...

When Green Mountain College in Poultney, Vermont, announced that two oxen called Bill and Lou would be killed and turned into hamburgers despite their years of service as unofficial college and town mascots, Pattrice Jones and her colleagues at nearby VINE Sanctuary offered an alternative scenario: to allow the elderly bovines to retire to the sanctuary. What transpired after this simple offer was a catastrophe of miscommunication, misdirection, and misinterpretations, as the college dug in its heels, activists piled on, and social media erupted. Part true-crime mystery, part on-the-ground reportage, and part sociocultural critique, The Oxen at the Intersection is a brilliant unearthing of the assumptions, preconceptions, and biases that led all concerned with the lives and deaths of these two animals to fail to achieve their ends.