Latest Queer the table Podcast Episodes
Rebel Eaters Club: Fatphobia (& Foodphobia) is Anti-Blackness with Da’Shaun Harrison
Queer The Table - February 24, 2021 00:52 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsThis 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 s...
A Quick Scheduling Announcement
Queer The Table - December 23, 2020 19:44 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsQTT will be back Jan 18th. Until then have a great holiday season and a happy new year!
Something Different About Us
Queer The Table - November 04, 2020 17:49 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsNico 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...
Rest + Resilience With Ianne Fields Stewart
Queer The Table - September 29, 2020 19:32 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsThis 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 St...
Changing Shape
Queer The Table - September 03, 2020 18:12 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsThis 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 arou...
"Good Outlaws"
Queer The Table - August 11, 2020 22:15 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsNico 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.php Heritage Ra...
A New Kind of Restaurant Critic: Soleil Ho
Queer The Table - July 28, 2020 15:46 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsWhen 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 conv...
The Harriet Tubman Freedom Farm
Queer The Table - July 13, 2020 19:33 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsNico speaks with Dallas Robinson, a self-described young black Dyke, who is working to bring a visionary farm and education center to life. 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 s...
Queer the Table Live
Queer The Table - July 02, 2020 20:20 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsThis 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 com...
Food is Medicine
Queer The Table - April 17, 2020 16:59 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsThis 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...
More than Just Rainbow Cupcakes
Queer The Table - December 16, 2019 17:59 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsThis 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 tirle...
Episode 10: Cheers for Queer Beer!
Queer The Table - December 02, 2019 15:49 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsWhen Bhavini Patadia met their now-girlfriend Saskia Ullman, they didn't even really drink beer- they just drank it to impress her. On today's episode, both Bhavini and Saskia tell the story of how that initial attempts to woo a girl led to the founding of Queer Beer: a full-fledged brewery driv...
Spaces for Joy
Queer The Table - November 04, 2019 16:31 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsAs big (an often fraught) holidays approach, we're feeling grateful for spaces where we can gather around a table with queer chosen family. On today's episode, we travel through space and time to two such spaces: the storied "lesbian potluck," and its more modern, Brooklynite rendition: Queer So...
The Sweet Stuff With Edd Kimber
Queer The Table - October 07, 2019 14:04 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsJoin us this week for a conversation with the deligtful Edd Kimber, winner of the very first season of The Great British Bake Off. He joins Nico to talk about about what his life was like before the show and the twists and turns its taken in the 9 years since. Queer the Table is powered by Simp...
The Corners of Their Mouth
Queer The Table - September 23, 2019 23:36 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsNico sits down for a conversation with Robin Elan and L.M. Zoller, authors of The Corners of Their Mouth to talk about gender reveal cakes, the context LGBTQ+ bloggers bring to their writing, and what queer food is and can be. Queer the Table is powered by Simplecast.
Kay Lahusen's Gay Table
Queer The Table - September 09, 2019 14:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsThis week on Queer the Table, we've got a guest episode from our friends at Making Gay History. Host Eric Marcus traveled to the suburbs of Philadelphia to eat dinner at Kay Lahusen's monthly LGBTQ dinner in the retirement community where she lives. Join Kay around the table with other elder L...
QUEERBOSS Pt: II - Sana Javeri Kadri and Andre Springer
Queer The Table - August 12, 2019 20:31 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsThis is the second Queer the Table QUEERBOSS episode. This time, Nico talks with Sana Javeri Kadri, founder (and chief feelings officer) at Diaspora Co., and Andre Springer, founder and queen of Shaquanda's Hot Sauce. Tune in for conversations about qtpoc taking up space and building a more eq...
Fall in Love with Truelove Seeds
Queer The Table - July 29, 2019 16:28 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsNico sits in a park with Owen Taylor- queer seed keeper and social justice activist Owen Taylor. They talk about how seed keeping is tied to cultural sovreignty and, maybe, queer family building. This episode also features music from Owen's band, My Gay Banjo! https://trueloveseeds.com/, @see...
QUEERBOSS: Doug Quint and Jessie Nguyen
Queer The Table - July 15, 2019 16:53 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsIn the first half of the show, Nico talks to Doug Quint about how what was supposed to be just a summer gig turned into the sensation that is "Big Gay Ice Cream." Then, they talk with Jessie Nguyen about what it's like to be opening a restaurant and coming out at the same time. www.biggayice...
Everything About Food is About People
Queer The Table - July 01, 2019 14:49 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsThis week, host Nico Wisler talks with Julia Turshen about the subversive power of cookbooks, how special it is to make dinner for other queer folks, and Pose. Julia Turshen is the bestselling author of Now & Again (named the Best Cookbook of 2018 by Amazon and an NPR ‘Great Read’), Feed the R...
A Footnote Not to be Forgotten
Queer The Table - June 24, 2019 22:07 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsWelcome to Queer the Table! All season long, we'll be talking about the importance of gathering in queer community to eat together; so it feels important to start with a reminder that the right to do that- especially to do that visibly, and in public space, has been hard won. Tune in to hear t...
Mini-Episode: Merry and Gay at the Garden Party
Queer The Table - June 17, 2019 17:59 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsHappy Pride Month from Queer the Table! This week's mini episode features an interview with and very special invitation from Glennda Testone, the executive director of The Center- the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center in NYC. Each year, The Center kicks off pride with The G...
Queer The Table is Coming Soon!
Queer The Table - May 13, 2019 11:30 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsComing Soon to Heritage Radio Network: 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 o...
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