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."
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.
[7/12
#PTawards
] 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
[4/12
#PTawards
] 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:
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.