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Happy birthday to our brilliant expert, Dr. Sarah Duignan, the amazing Medical Anthropologist! May your day be filled with fascinating insights, joyful connections, and celebrations that are truly good for the soul. Here's to a fantastic and healthy birthday! @anthrodish.bsky.social

i don’t talk about my post six concussion symptoms often anymore, but i so deeply wish there was more to be done for long term brain injuries, it can be so debilitating and infuriating some days

i find it hilarious that we’re now here in wellness culture, where poop is used as undeniable metric of health. as someone who got weird looks when i did podcast interviews on farting and digestion 6 years ago

people still out here mixing up free speech and hate speech huh

this week on the newsletter, a field log of a disappearing canadian chocolate. on factory labour, snack historians, bloggers who track old candy labels down, and dubious statements from international corporations! sarahduignan.substack.com/p/a-farewell...

funny how it’s exclusively white peoole doing the devils advocate whataboutisms around charlie kirk. really telling on yourself, he profited off of his racism and sexism and anti-trans agendas.

very excited to speak at the Graduate Food Studies Association's Edible Dialogues series Sept 23! looking at the connections between food anxieties and health moralities, which feels all the more relevant these days. #foodstudies #foodanthro link to register (free!): yorku.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Interesting, as always, read by @anthrodish.bsky.social on masculinity in so-called “ancestral eating” practices. I feel like trophy hunting culture taps into this dynamic, as well.

back to the newsletter after watching the liver king’s untold special on netflix, and exploring what it means to pursue “ancestral eating” practices in relation to 21st century masculinity extremes and performances. #foodwriting #ancestraldiet sarahduignan.substack.com/p/of-cabbage...

Officially opening up pitches for guesting on season 10 of AnthroDish Podcast, the show about food, culture, and identity 💛 Please see the photos below for specifics on how to pitch yourself as a guest! I am not able to take all pitches, but please reach out and share widely! #foodpodcast

the anxiety i have before i release a call for guests never goes away — but excited to prep for season 10!

when it comes to media making up excuses about housing affordability, little treat is to gen z as avocado toast is to millennials #avocadotoast #littletreat

MBOKO!!! so exciting to watch, feels so deeply meaningful having my new-to-tennis daughter watch and take notes on what women can do with the game 🎾

i am only just feeling like i have a good foundation for strength training one year postpartum, this baby really did a number on me. but the messaging about bouncing back quicker feels so out of control, it’s been a minefield trying to navigate it and not let my thoughts go bad #postpartum

i expected a lot in the process of applying for Irish citizenship (i qualify through my Irish-born grandparents), but i didn't expect to cry so much!

realizing today i work in two wildly different spaces: the academic one where AI is critically discussed with warnings about its impact to the planet, and the corporate one where we’re getting an AI named brant or something to be our concierge without blinking an eye. the whiplash is real

one of my icks is how many old mills in ontario get magically turned into expensive spas, lofts, and distilleries

up on the newsletter this week is an exploration of food dye bans, concerns, and why it’s a much more complicated scenario than what RFK jr thinks when it comes to which are allowable in canada versus not #fooddye

last night while my daughter was at a birthday party, i got a call from the party parent. naturally, i assumed she broke her arm. nope, he was wondering how strict my “no watching SpongeBob squarepants” rule was 😅

it exhausts me that if i post about an obnoxiously expensive montessori daycare that serves “seasonal breaded chicken” (chicken nuggets) being the only likely option for toddler care when i’ve spent 14 months on 52 other care waitlists, I’m offending the rich kids that went to montessori

how bad do we think liver king smells irl

'This... AnthroDish Transcript is with Carolyn Davenport-Moncel. Carolyn is an American expat and Chicago native, who wears many, many hats as a writer, entrepreneur, digital marketing professional, mum of two, and Souper-in-Chief at Simply Souperlicious...' sarahduignan.substack.com/p/anthrodish...

made a pact with one of my writing besties to try for more rejection this year and feeling very into this approach

i really dislike how flattened experiences of mothering are on the internet, how it’s “always” miserable and that only certain women are afforded a literary crisis about it, so wrote through my frustration: sarahduignan.substack.com/p/nightbitch...

my daughter loves to say she’s breaking into her school’s computer system at home, and i don’t have the heart to tell her she’s just logging into her google classroom

love when tech owners who run glucose measuring wellness apps are the ones getting interviewed about protein and other food trends over those that have cultural & historical insights into appetite and food stories #proteinmania

in the latest episode, i interview writer Jill Damatac on her brilliant new memoir, Dirty Kitchen exploring unique narrative structure, and rebuilding a sense of self through Filipino foods after living undocumented for many years. www.anthrodish.com/episodes/jil...

spotify revealing that they'll be putting number of plays beside each podcast episode may just be the final nail in me producing this podcast. my numbers have been stable for years but i am so disinterested in the idea of throwing more numbers at people to choose how and who they engage

finalizing a trip with two other couples for a wedding we’re going to in france this summer hits different after watching four seasons

things they don’t prepare you for in social science grad school: how to navigate PR people when you have a small production podcast

National emergency alert system to be tested on Wednesday in much of Canada: Canadians outside of Alberta, Quebec will hear tone at specific time on TV, radio and wireless devices www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

in researching for a chapter of a book i’m writing, it’s made me have to explore masculinity via liver king and the petersons and goddamn i need a mental palate cleanser after reading through that

in trying to take preventative measures and put on a tinted SPF, i had a very strong allergic reaction to the product (which i’d used without issues for years before!). so now i can’t even go out in the sun because my sunscreen got mad at my face

that the trump administration is removing safety regulations for poultry shouldn’t come as a surprise, considering the underlying assumption that raw meat is better for health coming out from their party these days

lol watching my husband turn into times table dad at the kitchen table in real time

texting my cousin about how my night is going (not pictured, my face dealing with a chemical rash from an expired skin tint) 🤠

thank flying fuck

gave my two weeks notice at work today, and feel relief! (i have other things lined up, but it definitely gets harder to shift to new jobs the more family members i have lol)

For Bittman Project, I wrote about the global farmer-chef-etc. reliance on WhatsApp in creating alternative food economies—and why it’s hard to get people off Meta. bittmanproject.com/whatsapp-and...

any comment section on what chapell roan said about mothers is a viscous ouroborous of women going after each other for whatever choices they made and i hate it!

i’m having A DAY and the staples printing order i picked up had no staples in it, so i stared laughing maniacally

Had a great time chatting with Dr. Sarah Duignan @anthrodish.bsky.social about why historical cookbooks matter when studying Canadian history. Episode on her fantastic #AnthroDish podcast is now available! #cdnhist #foodhist www.anthrodish.com/episodes/

in writing about my ugly kitchen (ugly as a rented space, thus not something fully controllable) is that people get uncomfortable with the idea of a woman not loving a kitchen space or making the best of it -- looks like i've got more to explore here! sarahduignan.substack.com/p/cooking-in...

Said article about influencers and Guinness and working class cosplay - a good read by @anthrodish.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/sarahdui...

@anthrodish.bsky.social on #Guinness: 'It would be easy to lambast it all, but Guinness is complex, a pint representing the ongoing legacy of carving perspectives out for the working class by the industry.' open.substack.com/pub/sarahdui... #drinkhistory #CostOfLiving #foodhistory

On March 31, I'll be at the Toronto Reference Library with Waubgeshig Rice to talk about my new book, How to Survive a Bear Attack. I'd love to see you there! Tickets are free, but you have to register: www.eventbrite.ca/e/claire-cam... #Booksky #librarylove #bears #toronto #memoir

back on the baby led weaning train! had to dust off the noggin to remember all the portion tips

i interviewed my 9 year old daughter on food in minecraft, and whether she’s learned anything about food systems through playing (she has!) — now up in my newsletter sarahduignan.substack.com/p/have-your-...