Knife & Fork

q***r fat liberation therapist & forever theater kid in nyc.

11/11/2024

40 is here. Very fat, very gay, very loved.

What else? Mmm…

I had a crown fall out. My left incisor; I have no immediate plans to fix it. I’ve eaten glorious cake for breakfast for the last three days. Cake for breakfast every day, I say.

My 40th birthday was last Friday. And in 2016, my birthday was on a Tuesday (if you catch my drift). America quite often does some classic America-ing during my birth weeks. Lame.

My shiniest moments of last week were my sessions with the amazing humans I’m so lucky to know and spend time with each week. Heading into Wednesday, I had a lot of anticipatory fear about how to show up as therapist me. But that fear was soon replaced with plain ol’ surrendering to not knowing much of anything except how to be as tenderly present as I can with what I got (one less tooth and lots of cake!)

Four days into my 40s, and I guess I’m feeling more aware. I spent a large chunk of my early-mid 30s not so much, often chasing some unrealistic expectation of myself that felt not mine for choosing. And OHMYGAWD, if you are still working on breaking those intergenerational cycles and patterns, keep going. It’s worth it.

Some moving little nugget hazily came my way this weekend, from who has gotten ADHD lost at this moment. Something like… if we only have each other, we have so much.

I like that.

09/27/2024

‘s new song ❤️‍🔥Wild Heart❤️‍🔥 is a beautiful embodiment of collective effervescence—that juicy, energetic, harmony that arises when people come together in a shared ritual or experience. I recently got to feel that collective effervescence magic by being a proud member of the Wild Heart Chorus!

I’ve had ❤️‍🔥Wild Heart❤️‍🔥on repeat ever since the song was released last Friday, and I hope you’ll spend some time with it too! May this beauty of a mantra song bring you as much joy and groundedness as it’s brought me.

🩵💜💛🩷💚🧡

06/14/2024

🚨This is a PSA for both THE AMERICAN THEATER (you heard me) and fellow fat friendz/folks.

👀Some theaters(NOT ENOUGH) are starting to offer more “higher weight” seating options. It’s often mentioned in small print and/or a little bit of an experiment to keep an eye out for.

Fellow Fat Friendz/Folks:
🪩If you see these wider seats or if they are offered… give them a whirl! Take up space! You deserve to be comfortable, you deserve to see and experience art without the painful distraction of metal, plastic or 63 year old armrests digging into your luscious b***y!

🪩The perk of being an early passenger of the wider seating choochoo train, you may also end up getting really great seats!?!?! See the above photo evidence—on Wednesday my fat fun chair was in the front row of ‘s Soundcake: Aural Confections by Sapphira Cristál & Monét X Change. 🤩

THE AMERICAN THEATER:
🪩You should do this. Now. Go do buy some, install them, and advertise them WIDELY.
🪩Once you decide to try them you will need more than a handful of these chairs. Lincoln Center’s audience was probably 1000 + people. There were many, many, many more fat people than chairs were available. I saw 6 or 8 fat chairs total.
🪩When these chairs are offered, it is often as one stand alone wider seat all by itself. See above photo as evidence. As if there would not be two/multiple fat folks in a party that may want to sit together. 😜😜😜

🪩Anyhoo, it was a fun night and I really was exponentially more at ease. You almost ASSUME physical discomfort when trying to watch art in a theater.

Think of all the fat people who just skip your shows because of this.

Fat chairs everywhere, plz.

02/05/2024

I’m posting my newest creative commitment to myself to help keep the momentum of this collage party going! I’m trying to not be OVERLY set on doing each day ON the day, and so far it’s a lovely little creative ritual I’m spending time with this month. The month of prompts is on slide #4–join me! My harshest art critic(s) can be seen in slide #5. Slides 1-3 are the first 3 days of prompts, but (obviously) out of order…
1.) Postcard
2.) Bubbles
3.) Escape
4.)Februllage (no I did not make this title up, even though it sounds like something I WOULD …)
5.) Baby Edith & Baby Edith Pillow. They enjoy my art the most when there are little bits of collage paper all over the floor for them to chase because the scraps kinda look like bugs.

10/02/2023

And a Spookycute Boo to you, too!!!

👻🎃🕯️🌛🧙🍭🍁

📷This disgruntled artistic vision is from the “October” page of Baby Edith’s new wall CATlendar. Coming to a store near you NEVER, because there is only one copy somewhere in the Midwest.

08/28/2023

Feeling all giggly and excited about how much fun we are having. I’ve never known what to call myself on devised projects so currently I’m workshopping “SCRIPT ARCHITECT!” Lol 😂

Come see our FatLib play at the NADTA conference mid-October. 🎷There will be a smaller NYC showing before the conference. Reach out to me if you want to get more info. 🎷

08/25/2023

hi from leisuretown, usa. population: me

i love to float.

hope you find some float/leisure time this weekend 😎🌊

07/11/2023

✨I’ve made 2 new PAWmodoro style playlists for focus, flow and fun!
⏰25ish minutes of WERQ FLOW & 5ish minutes of BREAK!

🪩I DARE YOU: 25/5 x 1
🪩🪩🪩 DO THE THINGS!!!: 25/5 x 3

🌈How will you know when it’s time for the 5 minute break?

🎷Well, break begins EVERYTIME you hear Whitney Houston’s 1985 classic “How Will I Know”😽

(Playlists will live in my linktree and saved highlights)

07/06/2023

Spent some radically playful time adventuring to Flushing to engage in some joyfully chaotic crafting’! My goodness it was a treasure trove of delight!
🎷
I remember a meme/tok that explored how when we are working to understand our own individual neurodivergent unmasking process—much of the juicy healing can be found in returning to the things we loved and were drawn to as a child. Such wisdom can be gained in returning to the ways we intuitively knew how to regulate and soothe and keep ourselves safe. It can feel hard to make space for this when we live in a world that demands us to show up in certain ways—thus, I’m finding MUCH freedom in carving out little adventures for little me to re-tap into our naturally messy, colorful, silly, joyful, spontaneous self. I highly recommend a field-trip over to .diy before they get so successful you can’t get in the door. 🤩

(My masterpiece phone case has to dry for 5 whole days—which is literally a nightmare in patience for little & big Dani’s ADHD brain!!! 😹)

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