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 cis-heteronormativity 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.
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Little Loli Loves Local Food
Celebrate local food and eating healthy with Little Loli’s cookbook!
Little Loli shares her favourite seasonal recipes as she anticipates the changing of the seasons. Using local Nova Scotian ingredients, she helps her Nana make squishy-squash fall soup, creates enchanted birthday cupcakes with her friends, and prepares a bubbling ‘n’ bursting tart filled with fresh rhubarb. While Loli uses ingredients from Nova Scotia, she invites everyone to get creative and use ingredients that are local to them.
She hopes you’ll join her in creating fun, healthy foods that can be shared with the whole family.
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Queer Compassion in 15 Comics
This unique comic anthology takes its readers on a journey through different art styles and queer perspectives, from first Prides to multi-generational friendships to finding community among chosen families. The comics in Queer Compassion offer kaleidoscopic insight into the colorful, heartbreaking, empowering, funny, and diverse lives of queer people around the world by centering compassion as a way to inhabit and build community.
These comics are created by queer artists for queer audiences and with the intent for queer self-expression and representation. Social science researchers spoke to diverse members of LGBTQ+ communities to explore their beliefs about and experiences of compassion. Fifteen queer comics were commissioned to illustrate those stories, making the process of creating each comic a unique collaboration between researchers and artists, blending data exploring the meanings of compassion for queer folks with the creativity, passion, and understanding of a queer comic artist.
These stories reflect not only the harsh realities that many queer people face but they also uplift queer voices, illustrate strength, and capture queer resolve to make life more compassionate. Queer people, living in a cis-heteronormative world, often face experiences of marginalization, discrimination, stigma, trauma, and invisibility in everyday life. Queer Compassion shows that its titular emotion can be the bridge that brings understanding and creates community connections — a bridge that is particularly needed at this time.
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Rainbow Reflections: Body Image Comics for Queer Men
Art and scholarship come together in this stunning full-colour comics anthology. Thirty-eight short comics reflect on body image from the perspectives of queer men, exploring our understandings of masculinity, attraction and self-worth.
Interspersed throughout the book are fact sheets with the latest findings in queer men's health research, providing readers with a mix of scholarly literature and heartfelt depictions of personal experience.
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