Tuesday, May 19, 2026
Women of Color Rewriting Our Food Stories: Transnational and Intersectional Feminist Food Studies

Join us for an early celebration of Culiniaria: Women of Color Rewriting Our Food Stories, a dynamic entry in the evolving field of feminist food studies. Editors and professors Farha Ternikar and Janaka B. Lewis will be in conversation with contributor Armani Stewart and moderator Willa Zhen to discuss how gender, race, class, geography, and religion all shape the ways women use food.
We need this volume in the lexicon of food studies research and analysis. It challenges us to think differently—not just about food but about the connectedness of food. Food and wellness; food and social care; food and caste, religion, and apartheid; food, dance, and performance; food and modern language, media, and communication; food journalism; and food and the performances of joy. This is an exciting volume because it includes all these vantage points and an array of methods and methodologies to advance these narratives.
— From the foreword by Psyche Williams-Forson


