Queering Nutrition and Dietetics LGBTQ+ Reflections on Food Through Art

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.

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 Fergaló 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, andBen 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. Achari 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 Overa New Leaf: Uncovering Gay Identity Alongsidea 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

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.