Abstract
This paper explores the ways in which indigenous queer (indigiqueer) poet Tommy Pico rethinks his relationship to food outside of commodity networks and attempts imagine a sustainable food culture through the act of queer commensality. Tommy Pico’s Feed (2019) will be read to appreciate the intimate relationship which contemporary foodscapes and food cultures share with histories of indigenous and queer oppression, and to elucidate how food can be appropriated as a technology through which alternative foodscapes can be fostered. This paper explores the ways in which Pico writes about the highly contested High Line in New York City, a location which offers queer eco-urbanism a space to foster a non-capitalist food culture yet faces the threat of gentrification. By exploring the concept of ‘emulsification’ which Pico coins as a radical methodology for rethinking the ways in which queer culture interacts with food, this paper elaborates on the ways in which indigiqueer urban food ecologies reimagine food culture.
Presenters
Caleb O’connorPhD Candidate, School of English, Drama and Film, University College, Dublin, Ireland
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Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
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KEYWORDS
Queer Studies, Contemporary Poetry, Indigenous Studies, Critical Food Studies, Eco-Urbanism
