Queering Nutrition and Dietetics
LGBTQ+ Reflections on Food Through Art
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Book Description
This book presents experiences of LGBTQ+ people relating to food, bodies, nutrition, health, wellbeing, and being queer through critical writing and creative art.
The chapters bring LGBTQ+ voices into the spotlight through arts-based scholarship and contribute to experiential learning, allowing for more understanding of the lives of LGBTQ+ people within the dietetic profession. Divided into three parts, the first explores eating, food, and bodies; the second discusses communities, connections, and celebrations; and the final part covers care in practice. Topics include body image, eating disorders, weight stigma, cooking and culinary journeys, queer food culture, queer practices in nutrition counseling, and gendered understandings of nutrition. Exploring not only experiences of marginalization, homophobia, transphobia, and cisheteronormativity within dietetics and nutritional healthcare, this collection also dives into the positive connections and supportive communities that food can create. Special attention is paid to the intersections of oppression, colonialism, social justice, and politics.
This book will be beneficial to all health professionals, educators, and students creating and fostering safer, more inclusive, and more accepting environments for their LGBTQ+ clients.
Table of Contents
PART 1 - Eating, Food, and Bodies
1. Double Visioning: A Two-Spirit Reflection on Food
Margaret Robinson
2. The Unbearable Straightness of Intuitive Eating
Maxie Castle and Lucy Aphramor
3. Invisibility – In Visibility: Art-Based Autoethnography of a Bisexual Vegan Woman with Type 1 Diabetes
Lee Ann Thill
4. Out of the Closet, Into Some Other Kind of Prison: One Gay Asian Man’s Journey Finding Self-Worth While Navigating Body Image and Eating Disorders
Jeffrey Sotto
5. Fermentating Trans Care: Embracing Animacy as a Life-Affirming Alternative to Nutritionism
Esther Kaner
6. Thirst Trap
Fran Lawn
7. Coming Together over Food: Coalitional Possibilities Surfacing in/through (Un)Healthy Queerness
Emerson "Kai" Armstrong and Shinsuke Eguchi
8. Queer(y)ing Foodways: An Agrifood Feminist Killjoy Critique of Narratives Dominating Foodways
Michaela Hoffelmeyer
9. Styling Flesh: Queer and Trans Bodies and the Neoliberal Commodification of Health Veganism
Fergal ó Baoill
10. How Sociocultural Structures Shape Body Image and Dietary Practices among Gay, Bisexual, and Queer Men’s Communities
Adam W.J. Davies, Dalia El Khoury, Nathan Lachowsky, David J. Brennan, and Ben Klassen
11. Delicious Queer Bodies
Deonté Lee
12. The Impact of the Outsider’s Gaze and Societal Norms around Food and Bodies on Queer Individuals
Alo Greening
13. Food has Genders (and Sexualities): Negotiating Foodways, Bodies, Weight, Health, and Identity
Ramiro Fernandez Unsain, Mariana Dimitrov Ulian, and Fernanda Baeza Scagliusi
14. My Daily Meal
Michelle Forrest
PART 2 - Communities, Connections, and Celebrations
15. The Eating Test: Notes from a Jewish Lesbian Omnivore
Bonnie J. Morris
16. Breaking Out of the Pack: Roller Derby and the Journey to Self-Discovery
Kaitrin Doll
17. Social Failure and Personal Best: An Autoethnography of Food and Gender in the Life of a Queer Youth Who Cooks with Vermouth
Edward Chamberlain
18. Recipe for a Queer Cookbook
Alex Ketchum
19. Girlfriends: A Culinary (Re)collection
Gunita Gupta
20. Gender-Reveal Cakes and Transphobia
L.M. Zoller
21. Meat Cute
Mikhail Collins
22. Achāri Anecdotes: Exploring Queer Food Cultures in Indian Kitchens
Anil Pradhan and Andronicus Aden
23. Not Ready Yet
Laura Bockus-Thorne
24. Food, Consumption, and Queer Subjectivity in Contemporary American Cinema
Megan L. Wilson
25. Have You Eaten Today?
David Ng and Jen Sungshine
26. Food as Cultural and Body Shame: Experiences of an Ethnic Sexual Minority Emerging Adult
Enoch Leung
27. Turning Over a New Leaf: Uncovering Gay Identity Alongside a Vegan Journey
Julia Russell
PART 3 - From the Front Lines: Queer Care in Practice
28. The Cerberus Helmet Project: Feast of Wisdom
Lynette A. Peters
29. Fairy Tales: Fables from BC Dietitians
Gordon Ly, Jon Leung, Peter Lam, Gerry Kasten, Treena Hansen, Shelly Crack, Anna Brisco, and Marissa Alexander
30. Still Dreaming After All These Years that Dietetics Be (Made) Relevant
Jacqui Gingras and Lucy Aphramor
31. Being Trans in Dietetics: A Step in the Movement towards Trans and Queer Liberation through Collaborative Conversation
Kathryn Fraser, Nat Quathamer, and Marin Whebby
32. Light of a New Day
Fabien Lutz-Barabé
33. How Recovering from an Eating Disorder Made Me Queer
Kesley Moran
34. Nutrition in Chemsex
Jason Simpson-Theobald
35. Ace(ing) ED
Mikey Anderson
36. "Going from Invisible to Visible": Challenging the "Normal" Ranges, Cut-Offs, and Labels Used to Describe the Sizes and Shapes of Transgender and Gender-Diverse Bodies
Whitney Linsenmeyer and Melik D.H. Coffey
37. A Case Study Exploring Relations Between Creativity, Queering and Undoing Coloniality in Dietetic Theory
Lucy Aphramor
Editor(s)
Biography
Phillip Joy is an assistant professor at Mount Saint Vincent University. His research focuses on queer nutrition and health. He is the co-editor for Rainbow Reflections: Body Image Comics for Queer Men.
Megan Aston is a professor and the associate director of Research and International Affairs at Dalhousie University in the School of Nursing. She teaches and researches in the areas of social justice, community, family, and perinatal health.