Today was a day filled with a little bit of procrastination. I mean I did go to the laundry mat, and did a few other odds and ends around the apartment but for the most part I kicked back a little bit, which is probably good because things are a little busy in my world. [...]
I threw this together last night and it was pretty dang yummy, to my surprise! Ingredients: 2 T Cooking Oil (I used EVOO) 1 clove garlic, minced 1/4 cup chopped bell peppers (any color) 1/4 cup chopped green onions 2 1/2 cups cut carrots 4 small cut potatoes 1 large can 100% Pure Pumpkin 2-15.5 [...]
I want to start this blog by saying that no one does domestic like a femme, but I don’t like the connotations attached to that, because the best cooks I know are butches (included at the top of that list is my partner) etc. etc. etc. That said, there is a specific sort of domesticity [...]
A lot of us spend a lot of time talking about the invisibility that femmes face in our daily lives in terms of not always being read as queer and I think most if not all of us have had the experinece of feeling as though our particular queered femininity was not apprecaited or welcome [...]
My mother gave me a recipe book including all of my family’s favorite dishes as a gift for my graduation from college (last week!). Tonight I made “Spanish Bean Soup” (alternately, Garbanzo/Chickpea Soup) in less than an hour. As I understand it, the soup originated in Tampa at Columbia Restaurant which features Spanish cuisine in [...]
both photos by Kate Bornstein This week was the NYC release of Visible: A Femmethology. Having another opportunity to read at Bluestockings and getting to spend the evening with spectacular femmes and femme ally contributors was sooo good. Hearing everyone’s voices really blew me away and added so many more dimensions to the pieces that [...]
