my gender is “presumed to be a food critic” every time I dine solo

I am launching #Rank&Spoils, a culinary criticism (anti-food blog?) publication in bad taste! Twice-a-month, I review a new bar, restaurant, eatery, recipe book, or cooking show in the hopes of connecting readers to the nuisances of “fine” dining. #restaurantreview #foodcritic #foodwriting #badtaste

How exciting!

As our author Jo Michael Rezes powerfully writes about this photograph of Tom Shearer: "Power resides in Shearer’s direct, unwavering gaze into the camera. He does not look away, not into a middle-distance of metaphysical abstraction, but at us, the viewers..." (contd.)

Much needed good news: _Sick Jokes_ is in production @katiesnow.bsky.social @lauracowley.bsky.social Our brilliant authors have written chapters on the intersection of visual culture, humor, and health (see ToC) And we're thrilled with the cover from @manchesterup.bsky.social - more in next post.

Thank you to everyone who came to our event about HIV/AIDS +food +LGBTQ+ communities today! This event is part of our series speaking about Queers at the Table ( @arsenalpulp.bsky.social ). Thanks @dogspunk.bsky.social @mcgillarts.bsky.social Events at: www.queerfoodconference.com/p/additional...

Here it is, the call for submissions for my next anthology, ACT UP BEYOND NEW YORK: Stories and Strategies from a Movement to End the AIDS Crisis, to be published by @haymarketbooks.org! Please forward widely!⚡💕⚡💕⚡ Here's the link to the call: www.mattildabernsteinsycamore.com/other

work by @ashleyrguillory.bsky.social @cedarsageskoden.bsky.social @bluedelliquanti.bsky.social @ainopihlak.bsky.social @dogspunk.bsky.social @diana-molina.bsky.social @ekalodnermar.bsky.social @jmrezes.bsky.social @johnbirdsall.bsky.social @hyzkoa.bsky.social @stackeddeckpress.bsky.social

This is great news that theater community is standing up to the Trump bullies and defending our own. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/t...

stress-baking triple berry cornbread and cinnamon & molasses oat crumble cornbread for my LGBTQ+ Theatre students because they deserve better than this crap and I want them to be nourished both intellectually and gastronomically

Teaching a new LGBTQ+ Theatre & Performance syllabus this semester and it’s heavy on the T and I think kinda really good so if anyone would like to see it!! I’ll post it here!

reading Bersani, Bornstein, and Bourdieu while slow cooking a high-fiber dinner? Call that graduating with a BM (Passing with Distinction).

writing a new syllabus feels like a combo move of 1) dropping an armful of groceries onto the counter and 2) cleaning out an old desk drawer

hi #ASTR2024!! First time back since 2019, so chat with me about my Nonbinary Acting Methods workshops!! or about taste studies!! I’m with Disability Performance Cultures tomorrow morning thanks to the wonderful @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social and @syates.bsky.social, but heading out in the afternoon.

Impossible to get a good angle, but excited to see “Disability Works” at a full NYU Press exhibit for the first time