disabled pleasure MAXIMALISM

misery meals now available WORLDWIDE 📬

Jun 05, 2026

hiya everybody 💌 our anti-cookbook misery meals is now available for worldwide shipping(!!!) and to celebrate we are sharing some words by the icon Leah Piepzna-Samarasinha, from the Afterword of the book ~

a peek at the fold-out flow chart, used to navigate misery meals

Disabled pleasure maximalism looks a million ways. I loved food when I was flat on my ass with CFIDS/ME and had negative million spoons and dollars, loved it when I started to be able to zip around more, and everything in between. My library book recipes, dollar value meals, careful menu planning to make $20 stretch, and stolen cups of coffee in the all-night diner, all mattered. They were all ways I cripped pleasure and all ways I fought for and claimed my life.
Our disabled food pleasure maximalism carries us through so many forms of crip grief and hard times. This was true before the pandemic, it continues to be true as food prices ever rise and pandemics continue, as genocides unfurl and the vibe is perma-grievous. Most cookbooks never even think about disabled or depressed foodways, but we know that straws, pre cut veggies, mission critical shelf stable milk and foods and recipes that take zero executive function are the stuff of life.
Let this be one of so many books throwing out lifelines of recipes and crip food hacks to each other and shouting: our lives are real, and we deserve to live.

ORDER YOUR COPY OF MISERY MEALS HERE 𐂐◯𓇋

*international postage costs are currently high. we do intend to distribute to bookshops internationally and will let you know when we do.

misery @ Scope Makers’ Market

“Join us for an afternoon of creativity, conversation and community, featuring disabled-led businesses, inclusive employment discussions, and opportunities to connect with like-minded people across London.””

^^ we’ll be slingin misery meals here later this month~

if you’re in london, you can also pick the book up at The Common Press bookshop. all profits from book sales go towards the continued running of misery CIC x

🥒misery meals press & feedback🍯

it has brought us great joy to see and hear proof of misery meals out in the world. here are some highlights (send yours through!):

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to hear more about the process of making the book, you can listen to this interview on The Sick Times ^, and for a cheeky excerpt of the book’s Introduction, check Polyester Mag xox

📌misery message board📌

misery message board is a space 4 the misery community to share our offerings with each other. there are so many generous & creative freaks among us & we want to know what you’re up to! without going on instagram! send your bits; QTIBPOC arts, nature, news, organising, action, grief, party, question, call-out etc to hello@miseryparty.org with short blurb, link & image for inclusion <3

Workshop, Meal & Party (June 6, Sheffield)

I’m throwing a party / workshop / event in collaboration with queer space Gut Level in Sheffield this weekend! Zine-making / book talk / communal meal / cute DJs will be lush, come!

Decolonise Choir (June 14, LDN)

Decolonise Choir is a space where POC can come together and experience the joy and the resistance of collective song...we are back and ready to come together again for our first 2026 summer session of joy, strength, healing, and resistance in singing together. So come, bring your voice, share in the collective experience of harmonising, tap into the power of oral tradition, and have a good time!

HER OWN WORDS performance incubator (23 & 24 June, LDN)

HER OWN WORDS is an incubator for transfemme solo-performance. Join us for four pieces of new work spread across two nights at Hackney Showroom.

braiding sweetgrass sharing circle (June 28, LDN)

We continue our slow reading of this beautiful book at Stave Hill ecological park. BPOC only.

Petition 4 Trans Rights

Hi all, if you haven’t done so already can I ask you to sign this petition and write to your MP about the upcoming anti-trans EHRC code?

If this is passed without scrutiny by parliament it will effectively bar trans people from single-sex spaces aligned with who they are. It strips trans women out of the legal definition of "lesbian".

There is a one click link to send an email to your MP to ask them to take action and a petition you can sign on the Parliamentary website.

NEUROMANCERS: Jobs, Helpchat & Asylum Mag Takeover!

NEUROMANCERS is a peer-led organisation providing autonomous, abolitionist, and accessible mental health care for and by the neurodivergent+ community.

💸 We are currently recruiting for Finance Coordinator & Operations Assistant.

☎️ We have recently launched Peer Helpchat: an online, anonymous, and confidential rapid response resource for neurodivergent+ people in need of mental health support.

🪄And we are doing a takeover of radical mental health magazine ASYLUM, and are still accepting submissions!

🗣️miserable mentions🗣️

what’s been keeping the misery team alive recently…

maymana: been telling everyone I know about how much I loved watching the latest series of Race Across the World. lovely wholesome watch for anyone else struggling to do a lot in these times. the contestants are v sweet and it makes it feel like you’re travelling to all these remote beaut places in the world, all from the safe cocoon of bed

gayathiri: I've been making lots of no-cook, cold salads to keep the body temp cool. And turns out a simple tomato lettuce cucumber lemon juice olive oil combo is my favourite! And I've just tasted my first radish! So that's nice.

anjali: I read Michelle Tea’s Valencia and enjoyed! (pic of my friend Anna's copy of Valencia where I read it on some ancient inca stones at the Templo de la Luna in Cusco, Peru). Tea’s words are so alive, capturing a heady, messy queer existence across lesbian bars, and in the streets - a snapshot of Tea’s life at 25 <3