Bobbi Salvör Menuez and Precious Okoyomon Cook for The Cut

The Cut paid a visit to artist and actor Bobbi Salvör Menuez, the co-brains behind the "queer food project," Spiral Theory Test Kitchen, a "conceptual dinner series founded by L.A.-based artist Glenn Kaino and chef Niki Nakayama," and poet and artist Precious Okoyomon. "Menuez isn’t a chef ('The idea of it makes me laugh,' they say), but this is where they’ve landed: the next-next Chloë Sevigny as genderqueer-intellectual-cook-poet-activist," writes Katy Schneider. More:

When it’s time for the fifth course, Menuez brings the pigeon to the table; there’s one bird for every two people. “You’re meant to share,” Menuez serenely whispers. The idea is to break down the barrier between near strangers. I share my bondage-­wrapped pigeon with a woman who enthusiastically rips off its glossy head with her fist. “It takes you to the edge of your comfort around sharing and hygiene and what is appealing and what is appetizing,” Menuez says.

In January, Menuez got a call from their agent: [their new movie] Adam would be premiering at Sundance, and she wondered if they wanted to go. “It was the first film where I’d be credited with my new name,” Menuez says, “and I thought, I’m just going to go back out there and see how it feels.” They came out officially on Instagram the day before the premiere. Afterward, they agreed to start going back out for jobs again, and within months, Menuez had booked a role on Euphoria. Next came an independent film directed by Margarita Jimeno called Grind Reset Shine. They also performed in Hayden Dunham’s show at PS1 and posed in W magazine in a suit and short blue hair. They kept cooking dinners.

Read on at The Cut.