my gender is “presumed to be a food critic” every time I dine solo
Dr. Jo Michael Rezes
@jmrezes.bsky.social
HIV/AIDS Media, Taste, Humor 🍬 Nonbinary Acting Methods 🎭 “Camp” counselor🏕 | they✨
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
Jiffy Mae's Sick Kitchen (@jmrezes)
Dear funky foodies, I am launching “Rank & Spoils,” a culinary criticism publication centering bad taste. Nitpicking the smallest stains and inconveniences. Reminding us of the material realities of...
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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
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...
Theaters Sue the N.E.A. Over Trump’s ‘Gender Ideology’ Order
The lawsuit seeks to block a new rule that requires groups applying for grants from the National Endowment for the Arts to agree not to promote “gender ideology.”
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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
