Main description:

* Chapters bring the voices of LGBTQ+ into the spotlight through art and contribute to experiential learning, allowing for more understanding of the lives of LGBTQ+ peoples within the dietetic profession
* Includes arts-based research that has the capacity to acknowledges multiple truths within the world and to give voice and representation to LGBTQ+ individuals
* Topic cover eating disorders, body image, creative practices in nutrition counseling, weight stigma, and gendered understandings of nutrition. Special attention is paid to experiences of marginalization, homophobia, heteronormativity within dietetics and nutritional healthcare, and the intersections of oppression, poverty, social justice, and politics

Contents:

PART 1 - Eating, Food, and Bodies 1. Double Visioning: A Two-Spirit Reflection on Food 2. The Unbearable Straightness of Intuitive Eating 3. Invisibility - In Visibility: Art-Based Autoethnography of a Bisexual Vegan Woman with Type 1 Diabetes 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 5. Fermentating Trans Care: Embracing Animacy as a Life-Affirming Alternative to Nutritionism 6. Thirst Trap 7. Coming Together over Food: Coalitional Possibilities Surfacing in/through (Un)Healthy Queerness 8. Queer(y)ing Foodways: An Agrifood Feminist Killjoy Critique of Narratives Dominating Foodways 9. Styling Flesh: Queer and Trans Bodies and the Neoliberal Commodification of Health Veganism 10. How Sociocultural Structures Shape Body Image and Dietary Practices among Gay, Bisexual, and Queer Men's Communities 11. Delicious Queer Bodies 12. The Impact of the Outsider's Gaze and Societal Norms around Food and Bodies on Queer Individuals 13. Food has Genders (and Sexualities): Negotiating Foodways, Bodies, Weight, Health, and Identity 14. My Daily Meal PART 2 - Communities, Connections, and Celebrations 15. The Eating Test: Notes from a Jewish Lesbian Omnivore 16. Breaking Out of the Pack: Roller Derby and the Journey to Self-Discovery 17. Social Failure and Personal Best: An Autoethnography of Food and Gender in the Life of a Queer Youth Who Cooks with Vermouth 18. Recipe for a Queer Cookbook 19. Girlfriends: A Culinary (Re)collection 20. Gender-Reveal Cakes and Transphobia 21. Meat Cute 22. Achari Anecdotes: Exploring Queer Food Cultures in Indian Kitchens 23. Not Ready Yet 24. Food, Consumption, and Queer Subjectivity in Contemporary American Cinema 25. Have You Eaten Today? 26. Food as Cultural and Body Shame: Experiences of an Ethnic Sexual Minority Emerging Adult 27. Turning Over a New Leaf: Uncovering Gay Identity Alongside a Vegan Journey PART 3 - From the Front Lines: Queer Care in Practice 28. The Cerberus Helmet Project: Feast of Wisdom 29. Fairy Tales: Fables from BC Dietitians 30. Still Dreaming After All These Years that Dietetics Be (Made) Relevant 31. Being Trans in Dietetics: A Step in the Movement towards Trans and Queer Liberation through Collaborative Conversation 32. Light of a New Day 33. How Recovering from an Eating Disorder Made Me Queer 34. Nutrition in Chemsex 35. Ace(ing) ED 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 37. A Case Study Exploring Relations Between Creativity, Queering and Undoing Coloniality in Dietetic Theory