andrea bennett (they/them)

@akkabah.bsky.social

Senior editor at The Tyee. Author of the essay collections Hearty: On Cooking, Eating and Growing Food for Pleasure and Subsistence (ECW Press) & Like a Boy but Not a Boy (Arsenal Pulp). Co-editor of the BC bestselling Points of Interest.

lol anyone who‘s been in an abusive relationship or knows someone in an abusive relationship knows the answer is yes. Many of us have been socially conditioned to normalize the situation & there’s often external pressure to do so, and to forgive.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 4d ago

Rep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"

i have been making my smores ice cream with a chocolate base, toasted marshmallows, and chocolate-enrobed gf graham crackers, BUT i think i'm going to try a version for my birthday where the ice cream base is milk that's been steeped with graham crackers.

I made those, like, date nut "bliss" ball things bc i used to eat them on long bike rides & swimming for four hours gave me a craving (ajklsdfjal). You know who went wild for them? The children. The frickin children! The children crave fibre & unrefined sugars

“Are therapists to blame for adult children cutting off their parents??” Personally I’d say my parent was to blame. But I can give you my parent’s contact info if you want to be lovebombed, manipulated, & eventually watch your self-esteem fade away before your very eyes for yourself?

watched a reel where an influencer said she had "really intrusive thoughts today" as she was pouring herself a coffee. & see, my brain was like "hit yourself with the carafe? smash smash?" and then she said she wanted to rearrange her furniture.

A few times recently people have asked me why (or for "my why") re: doing a marathon swim & it is in these moments where I wonder if I am just a terribly, overly literal person, because the answer was sort of just... to see if I could? Or, like, because I decided to? 😬