Boston University Course Encourages Students to Interpret Meals as Expressions of Gender Identity
“How is your food choice representing your gender identity?”
So much of higher education is just stupid now. How does this count as the pursuit of scholarship?
Campus Reform reports:
What’s on the menu at Boston University? ‘Queer Food’ backed by $350 million in federal funding
One might assume “queer food” refers to donuts, bananas, or sausages. At Boston University, the term is the subject of a course offered to undergraduates.
In a course titled Food, Gender, and Sexuality, Professor Megan Elias encourages students to move past nutrition and instead interpret meals as expressions of gender identity, sexual orientation, and relationship structures, including non-binary or polyamorous identities. The class frames everyday choices at the dining table as part of a larger effort to “recognize” identity and challenge traditional assumptions about family roles and social norms.
Elias has expanded these ideas beyond the classroom. She is a co-author of Queers at the Table: An Illustrated Guide to Queer Food (with Recipes), a book that analyzes how food can be used to question gender hierarchies and social expectations. In university-produced videos and campus features, Elias emphasizes that queer food is not something to be strictly defined, but something to be acknowledged as part of a broader gender experience.
In a Boston University YouTube video from the university’s Faculty Angle series, Elias says she is “not interested in making a definition of queer food, but a recognition,” adding that “queer food has always been” and that “queer people have always been cooking.” She asks students questions like, “How is your food choice representing your gender identity?” and “How is that different if you’re non-binary? … if you’re polyamorous?” She concludes, “We use food to understand the bigger picture of human experience.”
The course encourages students to examine familiar ideas about cooking and family dynamics through this same lens. In a YouTube video, Elias says that the way people think about food and preparation “tends to get entangled with gender norms,” and uses the example of “mom’s home cooking” to illustrate how certain assumptions about who cooks can leave out other types of households, encouraging students to consider the “range of people involved in home cooking.”
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The only people who care about the 5% of abnormals are the abnormals, their friends and relatives, and the grifters who profit off of them. I don’t care about queer, trams, gay, gender fluid cooking. I just don’t.
BU is a school I attended for a while in the late 70s. It was a crap school then and it definitely has changed.
(Sherloque is showing his phone to Caitlin and Ralph at S.T.A.R. Labs):
(Sherloque’s phone buzzes)
Ralph: You gonna get that or…
Sherloque: Adler. With these emoticon pictogram things that she send me.
Caitlin: Oh, master detective like you can’t decode a few emojis?
Sherloque: I can decode these emojis no problem, huh? Heart, she like me. Kissy face, want to kiss me. Peach, eggplant, she like fruit and vegetable…
That Sweet Meteor of Death cannot come soon enough.
What does Mac and Cheese with a hot dog say?
That I am a poor college student just trying to survive until I graduate without borrowing crushing levels of debt.
That an the $1 bowl of chili at the student union was how I survived in the 70’s. I graduated with my MBA debt free and skinny.
Skinny after a diet of mac and cheese and hot dogs? You go, girl!
Need a more meaningful course, “The Acceptance of Mentally Diseased College Professors And Their Marketing Methodology.”
That there is some mind blowing BS. If it’s pass/fail grading, then it’s sort of legit, sort of. but not really.
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