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Jaya Saxena

@jayasaxena.com
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Founder-Owner of @weareravenous.com Series Editor at Best American Food and Travel Writing Queens, NY she/her Tips to jaya@weareravenous.con

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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 3h
I do not recognize the Nets
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 3h
New York has two cutie pie basketball teams playing in two arenas with the most evil vibes imaginable and I think that's beautiful
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 5h
And a reminder that there are many ways to support Ravenous, whether it's through a paid subscription, our tip jar, or a tax-deductible donation www.weareravenous.com/support-us/
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Ravenous is worker owned, meaning every dollar we make goes directly to running and growing our publication; There are no investors to pay back here. Your support makes all this possible, so here are ...
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 5h
Talked about the new wave of independent food media with @devrafirst.bsky.social at @bostonglobe.com. I think we're building something good. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/30/l...
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Food media strikes back - The Boston Globe
In an era of upheaval, journalists are launching independent publications. Will this experiment work?
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 8h
I know what college is for and can mean both purely educationally and from a social opportunity standpoint, especially as you add any marginalized identity into it, but this is the cost of people taking your resume more seriously and it's disgusting
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 8h
I keep thinking about this and Nikole Hannah-Jones' pieces and how all the pain and devil's bargains with modern K-12 schooling is all in service of sending kids to places like this. At every "elite" high school, this is the goal. For fucking what?
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 19h
Ok so don’t see Primetime when you’re already sad
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 29/09/2026
Today @thecourtneyesmith.bsky.social asks, why are people playing screamo in the cafe? www.weareravenous.com/loud-music-r...
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There’s a Good Reason the Back of House Doesn’t Pick the Playlist
I just wanted some coffee and pizza. I got an earful of screaming infidelities.
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 29/09/2026
cool
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 29/09/2026
I mean it has four of the same letters
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 29/09/2026
Some people desperate to let you know they've never met a brown person before
Someone suggesting my name is a "nom de plume of a Georgetown alumna. School motto is Hoya Saxa"
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 29/09/2026
woooo!!!!!
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 29/09/2026
What an odd thing to say! No, this is just my name
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Having real #MeToo flashbacks today, what with various news stories going around, and thinking a lot about how women were encouraged to rip themselves open and show off our trauma, in all its Technicolor glory, so that men might begin to believe us
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 28/09/2026
Loved this piece from @francesdoingthings.bsky.social about Filipino eating in Forgotten Island
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
January 2025: I’m a trad wife who thinks women who work should be burned at the stake, please ignore the $50,000 I make on insta posting butter I had my servant churn Today: did you know women are people? I promise never to sell you gals out again unless its convenient
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 28/09/2026
I also think that as unionized media shops have been completely decimated by layoffs, there is less power among staffers to fight for freelancers, and idk that the media unions know what to do about that yet
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 28/09/2026
One thing I've noticed is that upstart worker-owned places are trying our best to pay as much as possible, but because none of us have millions is still far from how much we want to pay. But the rates at the big media companies haven't budged or gotten worse objectivejournalism.org/2026/09/free...
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Freelance journalism rates have barely changed since 2000
New data from the National Writers Union offers a glimpse into a bleak picture of decades-long wage stagnation in freelance journalism.
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 28/09/2026
Loved this piece from @francesdoingthings.bsky.social about Filipino eating in Forgotten Island
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Ted Leo 🍉 @tedleo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Which is just to say that if you think you’re siloing yourself off from the working class by NOT listening to modern country music, you are, in fact, in a silo of your own creation.
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Ted Leo 🍉 @tedleo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Entering the modern country music/working class discourse to say that New York City did not even HAVE a country music station for the entirety of my youth in the 70s & 80s. Closest the working classes got would’ve been Glenn Campbell (and specifically, “Rhinestone Cowboy” or “Gentle on my Mind”).
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 23/09/2026
Had an "Old Man Yells at Cloud" moment about restaurants not putting where the fuck they are on their Instagram pages
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 25/09/2026
Wait you guys are getting job interviews?
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 25/09/2026
"Just in Maryland, the hospitality industry is $26.5 billion in economic output. It supports more than 242,000 jobs...This is going to affect your community, pick up the phone, call your representatives, make sure that people in office are passing the important bills that we need."
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
you guys broke watergate
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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 24/09/2026
For @pastemagazine.bsky.social , i wrote a little about surviving, and being older than Nevermind, which turns 35 today. www.pastemagazine.com/music/nirvan...
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I never expected Nevermind to grow old with me
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 25/09/2026
"Just in Maryland, the hospitality industry is $26.5 billion in economic output. It supports more than 242,000 jobs...This is going to affect your community, pick up the phone, call your representatives, make sure that people in office are passing the important bills that we need."
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 24/09/2026
I spoke to chef Carlos Raba about the Menu of Solutions, a slate of immigration legislation that a coalition of food orgs and restaurants say will bring down the cost of food. And about why it's so frustrating to frame immigration rights through grocery costs. www.weareravenous.com/the-key-to-c...
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The Key to Cheaper Groceries? Immigration Reform
Seat The Table wants to pass a slate of immigration legislation to protect immigrants and keep food prices down. Chef Carlos Raba explains how the two are connected.
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 24/09/2026
I spoke to chef Carlos Raba about the Menu of Solutions, a slate of immigration legislation that a coalition of food orgs and restaurants say will bring down the cost of food. And about why it's so frustrating to frame immigration rights through grocery costs. www.weareravenous.com/the-key-to-c...
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The Key to Cheaper Groceries? Immigration Reform
Seat The Table wants to pass a slate of immigration legislation to protect immigrants and keep food prices down. Chef Carlos Raba explains how the two are connected.
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 24/09/2026
Our household is in shambles
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 24/09/2026
LA Times is reporting that AI signs are bringing in business at a local burrito place. More evidence that they don't gross everyone out! www.latimes.com/food/newslet...
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Freaked out by 'AI slop menus'? They might be — gulp 🤢 — here to stay
Bizarre AI slop menus with unsettling food images are taking over restaurants in L.A. and beyond. Why some restaurants say they work.
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Courtney E. Smith @thecourtneyesmith.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hello today is the day I break that indie rock broke back in 2004. You are welcome for this news update. And go listen to this podcast, my god.
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 15/05/2026
Periodic reminder that I am also the series editor of the Best American Food and Travel Writing anthology, and that you should be submitting your writing to bestamericanfoodtravel@gmail.com. Yes, from your newsletter/zine/indie pub! Full guidelines here media.sailthru.com/fss/flelv5/d...
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 23/09/2026
I mean idk where the info is I just wanna know their address and hours
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 23/09/2026
Ok I figured it out and it's new and unfinished and weird but whatever come through
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 23/09/2026
Had an "Old Man Yells at Cloud" moment about restaurants not putting where the fuck they are on their Instagram pages
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Ravenous @weareravenous.com · 23/09/2026
For the love of god, just tell me where you are.
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Restaurants, Your Address Shouldn’t Be a Secret
For the love of god, just tell me where you are.
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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 21/11/2025
MAMDANI: And I just think that there are barriers, barricades, to helping Americans that we can break down TRUMP: Uh huh MAMDANI: And breaking down barriers? Reminds me of a certain Broadway show *smiling widely* where they worked together to break a barricade? TRUMP: *sitting bolt upright* Phantom
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 23/09/2026
If you're in Brooklyn tonight come see me read...something! I'll figure it out by then I promise. www.instagram.com/p/DcmW7NbRqwO/
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Ashok Selvam @shokdiesel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Frickin’ @aemccarthy.bsky.social. Do you think I am going let her do this by herself? Consider this MATCHED.
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Ravenous @weareravenous.com · 22/09/2026
As you may know, we’ve been working over the last month to secure 300 new paid subscribers in 30 days. Welp, today’s day 30, and it’s the final day to score our biggest discount ever. Join @katkinsman.bsky.social and the rest of the flock today! Here's 30% off a subscription: buff.ly/EYirJYs
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Ravenous @weareravenous.com · 21/09/2026
I'm sorry for all those rude things I said about Chicago's most notorious liqueur
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I Think I Might Have Been Wrong About Malört
I'm sorry for all those rude things I said about Chicago's most notorious liqueur
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 22/09/2026
Today is the last day!!!
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Amy McCarthy @aemccarthy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
we're already halfway to 10 new paid subscribers, don't you want to become the sixth? or the seventh?? even the EIGHTH???
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Beloved @jayasaxena.com is directly in her wheelhouse writing about AI slop in the food world in her new-ish worker-owned food publication. www.weareravenous.com/for-ai-food-...
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For AI Food Slop, Gross Is in the Eye of the Beholder
AI food imagery would still be a problem even if it didn't look horrifying.
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 22/09/2026
I'm gonna match Amy on this, let's raise some money
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 22/09/2026
gearing up to get another book ready to send into the world right now and i just wanted to take a second to say that you should get your hands on a copy of SIMPLICITY if you like anything i've ever made. i'm still so immensely proud of it.
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Ravenous @weareravenous.com · 21/09/2026
While corporate media is cutting costs and getting rid of human workers, we’re aiming to do the exact opposite. We want to hire talented food freelancers who have something important to say. Help us fund our freelance budget and join smart readers like @joshgondelman.bsky.social. buff.ly/EYirJYs
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 22/09/2026
Today is the last day!!!
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 21/09/2026
I’ll weigh your soul against a bag of dusty Bazzini peanuts
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