Michela Siuni

Food anthropologist PhD-ing at @soas • mostly focused on London, the senses, taste, Korea, and everything in between | (she/her)

[John B. Holbein @JohnHolbein1]

Why is it that we are so drawn to monocausal explanations of complex social phenomena?

[Michela Siuni @siusmic]

Interested in hearing about some great new work in #foodstudies? I'm presenting my latest dissertation on Kimchi diplomacy in Britain this coming Thursday! See you all there🥢🤓

[GAFS @GradFoodStudies]

We're celebrating the winning dissertations in an online event on 25th Jan. A big shout out to our PhD winners Sarah Shultz (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Nino Bariola (@UTAustin), & MA winners Michela Siuni (@SOAS) & Haley McFadden (Boston University).
Zoom link in bio.

[Matt Margolis @ItsMattsLaw]

Every em-dash I use makes me stronger and my argument more believable

[Keeks 🦋 @DietCoke_Esq]

As a millennial, I have about 1-2 more “unprecedented times” in me before I move into a pineapple under the sea

[kemi @kemimarie]

social media was so fucking fun when it wasn’t so damn money centered

[Emily Stewart @EmilyStewartM]

we need to normalize small talk that just opens with “so what’s your deal,” which is the one true question.

[Jeremy, Writer & Dad & Collector of Parks @JeremyWingert79]

My hot take is that most of us have not adequately processed the trauma of the pandemic. And our sprawling, unprocessed trauma chews away at our brains in myriad ways that make us anxious about why we can’t seem to live our lives as instinctively or as joyously as we did in 2019.

[john sturgis @sturgios]

Just read the phrase "the older generation born between 1981 and 1996" and now I need a lie down

[Caroline Fitzgerald @goalscaroline]

PSA: Check on your women’s sports friends this week - Serena & Sue retired within 5 days of each other and we are not well

[Icona @iconawrites]

Are you “burned out” or are you having a reasonable reaction to a never-ending barrage of bad news which you can do very little about.

[Annette Taddeo @Annette_Taddeo]

I’m just curious why it’s age appropriate for kids k-5 to learn about hiding under desks and not that sometimes people have two dads.

[David Gardner @byDavidGardner]

I don’t know, man, maybe some dudes from the 1700s who owned people and would be mystified by the sight of a dishwasher weren’t right about everything in perpetuity

[Amy S. Choi ⁷ @awesomechoi]

Are you kidding me with this photo. Are you fucking KIDDING me. We’re still doing this?

[Michela Siuni @siusmic]

Important thread below for anyone that needs a refresher in European history or anyone that hasn’t quite managed to grasp the magnitude of what’s happening. It’s way deeper than race.

[Holly Cameron @_hollycameron]

I wish we would all start say covid ‘protections’ instead of ‘restrictions’. It’s ultimately protections being lifted. Words matter, and I wonder how things may be different if we’d got this right at the start.

[Sean Bair Flannery @sean_m_flannery]

An under-discussed effect of COVID is how we kind of lost casual friends. The incidental buddies you ran into at a BBQ, holiday party or softball game- just rapture-like disappeared. Now everyone you talk to is either coworker or 1 of the 5 most important people you've ever known

[Michelle MiJung Kim (she/her) @mjmichellekim]

In a society where Asian women experience perpetual erasure, minimization, and invalidation, please remember that whatever you’re feeling is valid and real. Whatever needs you have to feel safe are important and urgent. Please create space to check in with yourself.

[Ross Sayers @Sayers33]

It's true that we all have 24 hours each day, but each person has different pressures. In Queer Eye, Bobby has 24 hours to renovate a 5 bedroom house. Antoni has 24 hours to throw together a cute lil salad.

[Melanie Cheng @mslcheng]

The healthcare system is not a religion. You don’t have “hope” and “faith” and “belief” in it. You fund it. You put money into staffing it adequately.