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N: I'd love if my match was tall dark and handsome

Cute yeah...really into music, really into fashion, movies, latest trends

has to be really funny because I love to laugh and...

Yeah, soca, dancehall, yea he has to be into that

K: Somebody that can match my style

If not my height maybe a little shorter, but height don't really matter to me

has to really love music

Movies as well...

be able to

You know connect on a poetry level cause I really like poetry

have to be funny of course

Cute is....

Is...that is just stated

yea..

*RICE & PEAS THEME SONG*

N: Okay, so Jouvert or Carnival Tuesday ?

K: Neither

K: Gully or Gaza?

N: Gaza GAZA, yes all the way

N: Describe your most treasured clothing

K: Canali suit, a Canali suit, pinstripe double-breasted

K: Rate your fashion sense out of ten

N: Ten!

N: If you had to be with someone from a Caribbean island other than your own, which island would it be and why?

K: It don't really matter but I really like how Bahamas is right now, their beaches

That would be a plus to visit there like, every other month

K: who caused your last break up?

N: That was definitely him

N: What do you think your ex would warn me about it comes to you? & is it true

K: well last relationship was like 6 years ago

K: and...........she..........

K: kinda mental....

N: she or you?

K: no, she

So she would say anything & everything just to make me look bad

K: love, fame, or money?

N: I mean, love can gwan still... I'll tek da money, (haha) right now

N: pay my student loans you know?

K: Hear dat!

N: F***, Marry, Kill...

Okay, I'm gonna give you three female celebrities & you have to choose if you are gonna f***, marry, or kill them

So the first one is Kaci Fennel

K: who?

N: Miss Jamaica......you nuh know miss Jamaica?

K: What is her name?

N: Kaci, she's like brown with like short hair

K: Nah..

N: Wooooowww

N: Ok, you mus' know Yanique, Curvy Diva Yanique?

N: With the really big shape

N: woooooow, let's try again

N: Destra, of course you gonna know Destra

K: Not a fan

N: Not a fan????

K: no

N: wow, we're gonna have to rethink this whole situation right now

K: I mean I like her but...

I like her music but

How she is right now?

come, wait, old destra or new destra?

N: Younger Destra

K: Younger Destra? yeaaa, marry.

K: What is your favorite Caribbean accent on a man

N: Jamaican! (giggle)

N: I'm gonna guess you're from Trinidad

K: Yea...guess you're from Jamaica

Da was a good one

N: Um your name, I'm gonna guess his name is

Jermaine

K:...yours...Crystal

N: I'm gonna guess that you're 25.

K: Nah, you 24

N: Gonna guess that you're into

Fashion? you're in the field of fashion maybe, some sort of like creative though.

K: I'll guess the same for you, but more along the lines of blogging & make up & stuff like that

N: I think my match is wearing

I mean

Jeans, a t-shirt, maybe like a jacket over that?

He's probably dark, tall? hopefully? maybe?

Maybe a blue shirt, white shirt, hair..short hair with the beard?

K: Seeing that you're a vlogger

I'll go like light-skinned, caramel skin?

Curly hair

Height...probably like 5'6...5'5 probably

Outift, cause it's a little cold right now, I'll probably guess a jeans, dark blue jeans

With a jacket a maybe a denim jackets....and like a black top

N: Based on everything so far I feel like we kind of have

The same things in common, we kind of like the same things

so that

Would want me to find out more about what you're like?

so yea

K: I mean same for me especially the part that you are vlogger that I always

liked that lifestyle even though I'm in fashion, and I want to get into it probably wouldn't

I love a Jamaica accent of course

& what you say Gaza?

N: haha yea

K: I mean back in school I was a Gaza guy, I was never for the gully life, always Gaza.

yeah, of course I would wanna know more

N: I cant even take it off

N: wowwww...there we go

Hi

So

Yeah, I said you're from Trinidad & you are from Trinidad

K: Well you're from Jamaica obviously, Jamaican accent

You did not get my name right

My name is Nichelle but with an N.

K: Mines is Kairon, Kai-Ron, with an O

Kai for short

N: makes sense, thats better actually

I'm 23

K: When you turning 24?

January, next year

K: Oh you're a babyyy

N: Wow, I don't think so, no

K: I'm 27

Wooooww, as if you're THAT old

K: No well if you know Caribbean twitter, there's an under 25

N: That is true! yess yess that is true

N: but we're still in the same generation

& I did get the field right but what exactly do you do though?

K: I'm a blogger

& I am a Creative director of my own company

& a stylist

N: that's cool! blogger on like what? your own blog?

K: yeah, own instagram & my own website

N: nice nice

K: What kind of well I'm guessing curly hair vlogger

N: Well no it's mostly like makeup tutorials, fashion, stuff like that, but yeah like it's pretty much the same things like Instagram, youtube.

K: I figured as much

N: I went to FIT

K: I now finishing Parsons

N: Parsons? trash

K: wow!

K: You going FIT right now?

N: No, I went to FIT

K: then you probably wouldn't know Levi

N: What major was he in?

N: I'd probably...definitely cause we have a lot of things in common we basically kinda just do the same thing

so we definitely can relate on a lot of things and

Yeah, why not?

right? why not?

You nah do nuttin' so

You doh have a girl, Nooo

Well yeah

Curly hair girls actually my type, like spot on my type

The only thing is that, I never actually date a curly hair girl. I always date, everybody else

N: But how does that work?

K: Is not me personally it just that...it just so happens, but curly hair is my type

Yeah! the whole bloggin' an' stuff, whole fashion

That's literally like I want somebody to mesh with like me on that level too

You know because it have a lot of people that

They say they into it but...

N: Not really like when you actually into it and you start it

And then they're like oh you don't have time for me, like you can't do this, you can't do that..

K: not only that too.. it's just

Actually connect to somebody that's in the field rather than somebody that's saying they are a blogger or something like that

Just because they can dress well. Yeah...I know a lot of those

K: So.. that is a plus, I would

For more infomation >> Rice & Peas : Nichelle and Kairon | S1E1 ( The Caribbean Blind Dating Show) - Duration: 14:17.

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Virtual Intimacy: Thurst is a Queer Dating App for People of All Genders | NowThis - Duration: 4:56.

We're trying to make sure that love between people isn't just based in like a sexual interaction but it's more intimate.

It's based in friendship. It's based in love between not just one person but all people in a space or in a group.

We're trying to have people acknowledge the wholeness, the fullness, the humanity of each person.

Hi my name is Morgen Bromell. My pronouns are they and them and I'm the founder of 'Thurst.'

So the main goal was to make [Thurst] more inclusive of all genders because at the time when I was just thinking about dating apps and how frustrating they were,

the main one was gender selection. It seemed to always prefer straight men on any platform regardless of which one you choose or men who fit a certain archetype of masculinity.

So that was really frustrating for everyone I knew. We were saying this doesn't seem to include a lot of people.

How can we include folks especially who are trans, gender nonconforming and nonbinary who are just being cut out of every single platform, who aren't being seen online.

It was exciting for maybe like two minutes and then I realized one, apart from just like bugs and technical issues that come up with any launch,

we didn't plan for safety and security at all. Just the idea of having a safe community and saying 'please be safe, please respect other people' is not going to work.

I had a user send me a few emails, like in one night, saying 'Hey like I'm being targeted by, I think, a group of people'

and we didn't realize but there are a lot of folks who love to just harass other folks online or try to dox people online, expose their identity.

And this one person was saying, you know, 'I don't feel safe I think they're screenshotting my information. They're very much targeting me.

I'm getting rapid messages. I don't know how to block them I don't feel comfortable. Can you ban them?'

And so this is a scary moment where we realize we didn't have the protocol, we didn't have the policy set up

to really figure out how to ban multiple users who might be one person or multiple users who were different people but choosing to harass one person

It's just a scary scenario where this one person was saying 'I'm feeling very attacked. Can you help me?'

I feel like we do have platforms that are incredibly secure, like 'Paypal' for instance. All our financial platforms are incredibly secure.

We don't have that same level of rigor when it comes to an identity on a dating platform.

We really wanted people to acknowledge that we're so much more than just one type, one label.

And so for a lot of folks that are saying 'Having so much hardship in my life just experiencing and navigating dating and love and life,

as a person who maybe isn't straight, I want something more. I want to be seen as whole for the first time.'

So we really try to give people freedom to self-designate and then change that and kind of have a flexible space where people are interacting not based on gender alone

but proximity and location obviously but other factors that really play into how we're developing that criteria for selection.

So our first consideration was data how are we best managing our data and on the backend, where's it going, what needs to be stored, what questions are we asking. And then how do we handle user deletion?

Or how do we handle a user choosing to erase their data? Or they want a copy? How do we handle potential data breaches because those things happen.

When the first app launched, I realized our data is not secure. So we really thought first about the user's information, their name, their picture, like who they are, their age, and their location, especially, because [Thurst] is geo-location based and how to manage that.

There are so few spaces where you can go and meet other people around your age who are also queer and out and expressing themselves

or just talking about topics or sharing tips, like this is where I go for healthcare, this is where I get my drag makeup,

this is where I go to like just hang out and see other people and feel like the cops aren't going to come.

So for me finding community was essential I feel like that's been the journey for most queer youth, especially in this region for decades.

From the history of the pier to Stonewall and things like that, it's just youth finding each other.

We have a lot of people were saying "I'm 17 and a half, I can't wait to turn 18 and use this platform when you launch it.

Things like that based on their location and saying 'I don't know any queer youth in my school or maybe I'm the only person in the neighborhood but I'm hoping maybe in the next neighborhood over

or I don't drive and I can't figure out how to connect with my community.' We're hoping that we can bridge those gaps through this online space.