John Birdsall
@John_Birdsall
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Author of THE MAN WHO ATE TOO MUCH: A Life of James Beard ( @wwnorton ). Pushing back on queer erasure in American food.
Oakland, CA
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From the preface to a 1988 cookbook: "Whatever the policies and sleazy confusions of the 1980s in America, there is a national groundswell that insists we pay attention to our marvelous diversity."
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During a week when the US remembers 1 mil who passed from Covid, I wrote for
@Food52
about a 1994 queer community cookbook in San Francisco that tried to process the grief of those who'd died as a result of AIDS.
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[7/12
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] The winner of the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction is MOUTHS OF RAIN: AN ANTHOLOGY OF BLACK LESBIAN THOUGHT, edited by
@BrionaSimone
. Congratulations to Briona, all the contributors to this anthology, and her publishers
@thenewpress
#lesbian
#nonfiction
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[4/12
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] LET THE RECORD SHOW by
@SarahSchulman3
has won a special award for Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction.
@fsgbooks
. Listen to Sarah discuss writing this political history of ACT UP’s founding NYC chapter here:
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So many impressive books in this category, but Brian's stood out.
[6/12
#PTawards
] The winner of the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction is PUNCH ME UP TO THE GODS by Brian Broome. Congratulations to Brian and his crew at
@MarinerBooks
#gay
#nonfiction
#bks
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"Eat Plants, B*tch" is the post Pollan we need
Pinky Cole of
@SluttyVeganATL
is a force. Now with a $25mm round of funding, with
@dhmeyer
among the investors, she's poised to make her company a household name.
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Frankly I expected something less Disney colonial, something more Xanadu churrigueresque from Alito's house…
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This hat is banned in Florida classrooms.
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Homovipers, pansies, pedalos: I wrote about the cruelty of pinkwashing Julia Child in the James Beard episode of the HBO Max series.
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San Francisco newspaper from 1963, a month after Julia Child began appearing on TV. Her shows were a boon for expensive imported cookware shops.
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