Queer The Table

This week we're bringing you a guest episode from our friends at Rebel Eater's Club. 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.

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.

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.

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.

Nico is joined by Alia Volz to talk about her book "Half 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.php Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network, support Queer The Table by becoming a member!

When Soleil Ho was hired to be the new restaurant critic at the San Francisco Chronicle, she was replacing someone who had held the role for 32 years. She took it upon herself to totally reinvent the job, working to create a sight of exploration, representation, and equity. Listen in on our conversation to learn how she did it, and what her role is like now, in the time of Corona. In March, HRN began producing all of our 35 weekly shows from our homes all around the country. It was hard work stepping away from our little recording studio, but we know that you rely on HRN to share resources and important stories from the world of food each week. It’s been a tough year for all of us, but right now HRN is asking for your help. Every dollar that listeners give to HRN provides essential support to keep our mics on. We've got some fresh new thank you gifts available, like our limited edition bandanas. Keep Queer the Table on the air: become an HRN Member today! Go to heritageradionetwork.org/donate.

Nico speaks with Dallas Robinson, a self-described young black Dyke, who is working to bring a visionary farm and education center to life.

This is a broadcast version of last month's Queer the Table Live event, in partnership with the Hetrick Martin House. Nico was joined by Vanessa Parish, Christopher Murray, Andre Springer and John DeBary to talk about the ways in which queer folks, and particularly QTPOC are nourishing their communities through this time of crisis. In March, HRN began producing all of our 35 weekly shows from our homes all around the country. It was hard work stepping away from our little recording studio, but we know that you rely on HRN to share resources and important stories from the world of food each week. It’s been a tough year for all of us, but right now HRN is asking for your help. Every dollar that listeners give to HRN provides essential support to keep our mics on. We've got some fresh new thank you gifts available, like our limited edition bandanas. Keep Queer The Table on the air: become an HRN Member today! Go to heritageradionetwork.org/donate.

This week, Nico checks in on Emmett Findley, the director of Communications at God's Love We Deliver. Gods Love formed at the height of the AIDS Crisis to provide delicious, medically-tailored meals to New York City's most vulnerable. Today, they've have had to reorganize every aspect of their operations to keep serving during this pandemic.

This week, Nico is joined by Ingrid Nilsen. Ingrid launched her first YouTube Channel in 2009, quickly amassing millions of followers under the moniker "missglamorazzi." Ingrid went viral in 2015 when she posted a raw, emotional coming out video on her channel. Since then, she has become a tirless advocate for LGBTQ+ rights and representation. Her latest project, Cooking With Pride, is a web-series that queer invites chefs to teach viewers to make, and tell the stories behind, their favorite dishes.