misery meals: a crip community anti-cookbook for when eating and cooking is hard

How do we feed ourselves when we can’t get out of bed? When we aren’t even sure we want to be alive? When every time we try to make rice, it feels like the first time?

misery meals is a choose-your-own-adventure collection of recipes, art and resources by mad and disabled, queer and trans, global majority people world-over, to be used always, but especially when we’re feeling miserable. This is an intuitive guide for when we need to eat but aren’t sure exactly when or what or fucking how. Think of it as an anti-cookbook.

The wisdoms of disabled, queer and colonised people were never the purview of those communities alone. Everyone needs to know how to nourish ourselves when we can’t move, when we have limited ingredients, when we’ve lost all hope. We could all do with the space to listen to and work with our bodies just a little bit more. We deserve it!

This book explores no-cook cooking, no-chew eating and no-appetite nourishment, to reimagine the cookbook as a place where access needs around nutrition are centered through an artistic, radical, mental health, crip justice lens. As well as recipes, we’ve collected hacks, developed a food safety plan and written trauma-informed guides to food shopping, batch cooking and appetite regulation.misery meals is a love letter to the sad stomach, the bloated brain, the soupy soul. This is for all of us! This has been all of us! And there’s no shame in any of it.