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The Cultural History of Cuisine & Queer Relationships to Food

In this collection of articles and essays, we will explore what foods carry meaning beyond addressing physical hunger; the rituals and traditions that surround food preparation and sharing; how one comes to identify with cuisine and its local, national, or familial history; and the significance of diet in our lives.

In Food and Community: How Vietnamese Drinking Culture Taught Me to Love My Queerness

Alex Nguyen

Family, Ancestors, and Finding Peace in the Comfort Foods of Survival

Rafael Ofelo Rashaad Riascos

Craters on the Moon: On Love & Forgetting Between My Body and Food

Paul Saiedi

The Queer Afro-Jew’s Guide to Culinary Liberation

Jordan Daniels

Creating My Place at the Table: How Food Became a Source of Self

Dani Maddox

Queer Pleasures of the South Asian Kitchen

Sohel Sarkar

Setting the Table for Queer Futures: Potlucks as a Site of Queer Community-Building and Resistance

Lynn Huynh

The Secret Roti Recipe That Bridged Time, Geography, and the Space Between My Father and Me

Keshav Kant

BlackGayBoysInTheKitchen

Shamari Reid

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