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Drag Cuisines: The Queer Ontology of Veganism

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posted on 2023-04-04, 19:50 authored by Allison P FrazierAllison P Frazier

Drag Cuisines is an interdisciplinary study of the cultural, social, and historical interconnectedness of veganism, queerness, and animality. To interrogate these links requires mixed methods such as the collection of oral histories with self-identified queer vegans, analysis of animal themes in queer film and literature, social media analysis, and analysis of food cultures and restaurant rhetorics. Following work by prominent American Studies scholars, this project posits that the practice of veganism embodies queer performativity in how queerness and animality are ontologically linked.

History

Degree Type

  • Doctor of Philosophy

Department

  • American Studies

Campus location

  • West Lafayette

Advisor/Supervisor/Committee Chair

Bill Mullen

Additional Committee Member 2

Yvonne Pitts

Additional Committee Member 3

Sharra Vostral

Additional Committee Member 4

TJ Boisseau