ABSTRACT
This book chapter explores food practices employed by Vancouver-based arts collective, Love Intersections, which is a group of queer artists of colour whose central arts practice revolves around employing cultural production as a tool for social transformation. Drawing from intersectional, queer, diasporic, decolonial, social practice arts and feminist theory, we will reflect on the role of food sharing as conduit for cultivating relationships, as a tool for “queering” dominant systems, as a form of dialogical aesthetic – and how these themes intersect with the cultural work that Love Intersections produces. By examining two food-based projects – Diverse Appetites and Hot Pot Talks – we examine the possibilities that food-based practices of diasporic queer artists of colour offers regarding cultivating, nourishing, and fermenting intersectional conversations and embodied practices of social justice.
