“I really understand, personally, the way that kinship matters because my father was adopted by a white family,” Pierce said when asked this sticking point. “My father was taken out of the Cherokee community and we had no idea who his family was for most of his adult life.” “Those women before me, I wanna finish what they started,” she says. “I’m gonna make whatever I do Black. You’ll know that I’m a Black girl, even if it’s on the quote-unquote whitest record ever.” Of course the two girls slice open the bed and some terrifying creature crawls out of it, causing me to involuntarily stand up and turn on all of the lights in my apartment while repeatedly saying “Nope.” to the news at the time, writing, “Heart so full, I love you, sweetness!” The pair has kept their relationship and romance fairly low-key over the past few months, thoughElle