Rebel Eaters Club: Fatphobia (& Foodphobia) is Anti-Blackness with Da’Shaun Harrison
This week we're bringing you a guest episode from our friends at Rebel Eater's Club (Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Spotify). Host Virgie Tovar spoke with writer and activist Da'Shaun Harrison, tracing the roots of diet culture all the way back to slavery, talking about navigating the health care system as fat people of color, and exploring what it looks like to find love and community.Photo Courtesy of Rebel Eaters ClubHeritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support Queer The Table by becoming a member!Queer The Table is Powered by Simplecast.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Something Different About Us
Nico is joined by John Birdsall, whose biography "The Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of James Beard," was just released. The book explores Beard's queerness, and the ways in which it trickled into his recipes, teachings, and American food culture as a whole.Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support Queer The Table by becoming a member!Queer The Table is Powered by Simplecast. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Rest + Resilience With Ianne Fields Stewart
This week, Nico speaks to Ianne Fields Stewart. Ianne is the founder of the Okra Project, an organization that hires Black trans chefs to go into the homes of other Black trans people to prepare a delicious home-cooked meal, building community along the way. Image courtesy of Ianne Fields Stewart.Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support Queer The Table by becoming a member!Queer The Table is Powered by Simplecast. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Changing Shape
This episode was originally produced for Season 2 of Bodies, hosted by Allison Behringer. Trans folks are 8x more likely than cis folks to be diagnosed with an eating disorder. Nico shares their own experience with trying to untangle their gender dysphoria from their feelings and behaviours around food.Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support Queer the Table by becoming a member!Queer the Table is Powered by Simplecast.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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"Good Outlaws"
Nico is joined by Alia Volz to talk about her book "Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco," and how AIDS activists paid the way for marijuana legalization in this country. Find a Black-owned bookstore near you: https://aalbc.com/bookstores/bookstore-map.phpHeritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network, support Queer The Table by becoming a member! Queer The Table is Powered by Simplecast. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
A show about the joyful, messy, radical magic that happens in spaces where queerness and food intersect. In conversation with farmers, chefs, activists, historians, seed savers and business babes, host Nico Wisler explores the idea of “queer food” in all of its limitless forms.
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