CFP: Queerness & Recipes
Send us your pitches for our Spring 2024 issue
Our Winter 2024 issue NEW YEAR, NEW DIRECTIONS is live, with new posts highlighting student research on recipes of all kinds dropping every Thursday in March, but we’re already thinking about what’s around the corner.
We’re excited to announce that our Spring 2024 issue, co-edited by guest editor Lindsay Herring and our own Ryan Kashanipour, will center scholarship, activist work, and personal reflections on queerness and recipes, broadly construed. We invite proposals from students, activists, community elders, and professional researchers at all levels working in the fields of literature, art history, history, history of medicine and science, area and cultural studies, culinary studies, or folk studies. Besides traditional posts of 500 to 1,000 words, we also welcome submissions that center video or audio, as well as those highlighting digital archival collections. We are particularly interested in scholarship that breaks new ground or explores new directions in the relationship between queerness, LGBTQIA+ studies, recipes, and food.
Image of The Queer Cookbook: A fully-guided tour to the secrets of success in the homosexual kitchen! Compiled by Donna Clark and illustrated by David Shenton (Bloomsbury, 1997). Photo from an exhibit on queer cookbooks at McGill University, August through December 2021. Read more about the exhibit and queer cookbooks on their website, Historial Cooking Project.
Interested contributors should send a two- to three-sentence proposal outlining the topic of their post to lindsay.anne98[at]gmail.com no later than March 10, 2024. Contributors will be notified about accepted proposals the following week. Posts will be due by March 29th, 2024 for publication in April 2024.
Finally, please share this CFP widely with friends and colleagues working on queerness and recipes. We would be delighted to read your proposals!
The Recipes Project Editorial Team