This is what it looks like to publish a book about cars as a fat, queer, unapologetic femme. This is just a tiny slice of what I have to endure just to teach people about their vehicles.

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Hi, I'm Chaya, a queer automotive educator, journalist, influencer, and author of Mechanic Shop Femme's Guide to Car Ownership. My mission is simple: Teach queer folks and women about their cars while being my bold, colorful, unapologetic, fat self.

Mechanicshopfemme.com/book

There is a coup going on in the @nytimes cooking community Facebook group. Here's the scoop: A member posted about making sure to vote, and the moderators removed his post since the group is supposed to be a haven from politics, focused only on food. The members, numbering over 62k, weren't having it and made it clear that food is undoubtedly political. They began to fashion food to spell VOTE, using captions only directly related to food. The creativity and patriotism is inspiring. Here are some of their creations.

#Introduction

I recently realized that I never introduced myself here. So here goes a thread. I'm a queer, fat, Jewish femme. My work is mostly about cars as an automotive educator, writer, and speaker. Not DIY, I write about cars in a way that the average driver can understand. I think it's essential to be a full person while doing my work. So I do more than just cars. I also write about queer life and love and the "plus-size experience." My goal is to uplift plus size people of color, non-male mechanics, queer folks, and other marginalized voices.