Catherine Morley, Makaela Hurtubuise, Sydney Lasko, Julia Blackwood
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This work presents a personal reflection on the representation of the bodies of gay men through the mixing of visual and written reflections. Four distinct visual archetypes: Yaoi, Bara, Male Pin-Up, and Muscle Queen are represented in the artwork. Each of these archetypes serves as a cultural lens through which the physicality and identity of gay men are both viewed and constructed. Yaoi artwork is often characterized by slender “beautiful boys.” Bara contrasts sharply with Yaoi, presenting burly and often overtly muscular forms that celebrate a different gay masculinity, one grounded in strength and robust physical presence. The Male Pin-Up, with its roots in classic Americana, captures the idealized male form, exuding a timeless charm and eroticism that transcends the everyday. Then, the Muscle Queen, a colloquial term for gay men who engage in body-building activities to attract others. Through the lens of these archetypes and creative writing, the reader can reflect on the social and cultural constructions of bodies.
{"title":"Ink and Iron","authors":"Phillip Joy, James Iain Neish","doi":"10.32920/jcd.v7i2.2106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32920/jcd.v7i2.2106","url":null,"abstract":"This work presents a personal reflection on the representation of the bodies of gay men through the mixing of visual and written reflections. Four distinct visual archetypes: Yaoi, Bara, Male Pin-Up, and Muscle Queen are represented in the artwork. Each of these archetypes serves as a cultural lens through which the physicality and identity of gay men are both viewed and constructed. Yaoi artwork is often characterized by slender “beautiful boys.” Bara contrasts sharply with Yaoi, presenting burly and often overtly muscular forms that celebrate a different gay masculinity, one grounded in strength and robust physical presence. The Male Pin-Up, with its roots in classic Americana, captures the idealized male form, exuding a timeless charm and eroticism that transcends the everyday. Then, the Muscle Queen, a colloquial term for gay men who engage in body-building activities to attract others. Through the lens of these archetypes and creative writing, the reader can reflect on the social and cultural constructions of bodies.","PeriodicalId":486847,"journal":{"name":"Journal of critical dietetics","volume":"111 34","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141822680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In this article, I explore both my personal experiences within queer men’s communities engaging with dieting practices and my journey encountering assessments for gynecomastia. Gynecomastia, a medical condition that typically describes cisgender men’s experiences with enlarged breasts and extra fat tissue on their pectorals, is an under-discussed medical condition that intersects with conversations around gender, sexuality, body image and self-esteem. Within queer men’s communities, the hegemonic emphasis on toned, ‘fit’ bodies and muscular pectoral muscles leaves individuals with gynecomastia with body image and self-esteem challenges. Accordingly, hierarchical notions of queer masculinities often position feminine embodiment, particularly that which is associated with fat and fleshiness, as lesser than. In this poststructural autoethnographic article, I engage with my personal experiences of being assessed for gynecomastia and personal histories with body image challenges. Through this, I describe the hegemonic norms within queer men’s communities that constitute feminized and fattened embodiments as inferior and place my personal experiences with body image and self-esteem challenges within a larger socio-cultural and political landscape that devalues bodies outside of hegemonic and masculinized norms. I provide implications for dietetic professional practices throughout the article and advocate for an awareness of social and cultural norms around gender and sexuality in dietetic professional practices.
{"title":"“I Just Want to Be Normal!”","authors":"Adam Davies","doi":"10.32920/jcd.v7i2.2052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32920/jcd.v7i2.2052","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, I explore both my personal experiences within queer men’s communities engaging with dieting practices and my journey encountering assessments for gynecomastia. Gynecomastia, a medical condition that typically describes cisgender men’s experiences with enlarged breasts and extra fat tissue on their pectorals, is an under-discussed medical condition that intersects with conversations around gender, sexuality, body image and self-esteem. Within queer men’s communities, the hegemonic emphasis on toned, ‘fit’ bodies and muscular pectoral muscles leaves individuals with gynecomastia with body image and self-esteem challenges. Accordingly, hierarchical notions of queer masculinities often position feminine embodiment, particularly that which is associated with fat and fleshiness, as lesser than. In this poststructural autoethnographic article, I engage with my personal experiences of being assessed for gynecomastia and personal histories with body image challenges. Through this, I describe the hegemonic norms within queer men’s communities that constitute feminized and fattened embodiments as inferior and place my personal experiences with body image and self-esteem challenges within a larger socio-cultural and political landscape that devalues bodies outside of hegemonic and masculinized norms. I provide implications for dietetic professional practices throughout the article and advocate for an awareness of social and cultural norms around gender and sexuality in dietetic professional practices.","PeriodicalId":486847,"journal":{"name":"Journal of critical dietetics","volume":"111 34","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141821213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This research explores experiences of compassion in the eating disorder recovery processes of 2S/LGBTQ+ people. There exists a growing body of evidence suggesting disparities in the assessment, treatment, and overall care of eating disorders in 2S/LGBTQ+ communities. One concern is a potential lack of compassion, which can exacerbate feelings of isolation for 2S/LGBTQ+ individuals. To gain a deeper understanding of this issue, we embrace a queer poststructuralist approach to our research that disrupts traditional knowledge and acknowledges experiences as socially constructed. Semi-structured interviews with 14 self-identifying 2S/LGBTQ+ people who have experienced eating disorder care were conducted. Analysis of the data revealed three main types of experiences: 1) Experiences of otherness, 2) Experiences of compassion in eating disorder care, and 3) Experiences of compassion in queer communities. To “queer” our findings, we present them through graphic art and non-traditional scientific writing. The graphic art represents participants’ experiences and is followed by critical discussions that further explore the socially constructed nature of their experiences. Our findings underscore the critical need for enhanced compassion for 2S/LGBTQ+ people during treatment with eating disorders.
{"title":"Artful Compassion","authors":"Phillip Joy, Megan White, Megan Aston","doi":"10.32920/jcd.v7i2.1983","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32920/jcd.v7i2.1983","url":null,"abstract":"This research explores experiences of compassion in the eating disorder recovery processes of 2S/LGBTQ+ people. There exists a growing body of evidence suggesting disparities in the assessment, treatment, and overall care of eating disorders in 2S/LGBTQ+ communities. One concern is a potential lack of compassion, which can exacerbate feelings of isolation for 2S/LGBTQ+ individuals. To gain a deeper understanding of this issue, we embrace a queer poststructuralist approach to our research that disrupts traditional knowledge and acknowledges experiences as socially constructed. Semi-structured interviews with 14 self-identifying 2S/LGBTQ+ people who have experienced eating disorder care were conducted. Analysis of the data revealed three main types of experiences: 1) Experiences of otherness, 2) Experiences of compassion in eating disorder care, and 3) Experiences of compassion in queer communities. To “queer” our findings, we present them through graphic art and non-traditional scientific writing. The graphic art represents participants’ experiences and is followed by critical discussions that further explore the socially constructed nature of their experiences. Our findings underscore the critical need for enhanced compassion for 2S/LGBTQ+ people during treatment with eating disorders.","PeriodicalId":486847,"journal":{"name":"Journal of critical dietetics","volume":"108 23","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141821857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Engulfed by gender dysphoria? A feeling as if your body is other, wrong, mismatched, misconstructed, or visibly queer in the therapeutic milieu. Why does it feel overwhelming as a practicing queer art therapist to explore my own experience with gender even alongside gender-diverse clients? I find myself combing through those ruminating thoughts as depicted in my comic with the overwhelming amounts of slime taking over the composition–can the client tell? Can they see my dysphoria? The eating disorder that led to my experiences of this oozing effect of dysphoria? The restricting of calories to punish my body? How can I, the art therapist, be an expert on eating? “Eating healthy?” Body image? Exercise? Gender? Dysphoria? Euphoria? Will they still trust me if they knew? What if I can’t even accept my own body? Sharing similar experiences of living in a body that feels queer in the most literal sense – strange, odd, different – a struggle that might be a point of connection even across differences…I wonder: Should I disclose? Is that crossing a line? How can I navigate this ethical dilemma when the literature and professional discourse neglect to attend to these queer concerns? In an attempt to depict this idea of gender dysphoria impacted by an eating disorder, I leaned into my artist identity as an art therapist by creating a comic using an oozing slime texture to engulf the disengaged figure in the comic. This slime, sticky and elastic in texture, represents the overwhelming thoughts of living in a body that sometimes feels and looks otherworldly to cis-normative bodies and ideals that conform to society. Slime captures the experience of a body feeling malleable, genderless, organic, and otherworldly. Slime often gets tied to language such as gross, weird, and strange, which historically gets tied to queer bodies. However, as a queer artist growing up in the nineties, the images of slime feel nostalgic, safe, and a recurring theme in my other artworks. The comic intends to bring up, for the viewer, thoughts about how an artist and therapist experience their body both physically and mentally in the therapeutic space. In what ways do they perform gender? Succumb to gender norms? It invites queer therapists to give themselves grace in the therapy space and continue expressing their gender authentically while asking why it also often feels like an endless pursuit. Body Unmatched shows the painful turmoil one can go through to come to a space of accepting one's body and the disordered eating through the repetitive line work in the comic. It brings to light the constant battle or discussion in one's mind about the gendered expectations of others, and self-reflection.
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I revisit prior auto-theoretical work on disordered eating, recounting its focus and explaining how it has since provoked me to rethink my art practice, in particular how it feels to use chance (aleatory) operations and how they intervene in the perfectionism that affects my self-image. I narrate the process of drawing several scribble portraits and reflect on how they elude the nagging pressure of perfectionism allied with realism. I cite recent review literature on the relation between perfectionism and disordered eating and on the efficacy of art therapies in eating disorders’ management and conclude by suggesting that chance operations from the historical and contemporary artistic avant-garde may offer useful strategies for future intervention and management of eating disorders.
{"title":"Addendum to My Daily Meal","authors":"Michelle Forrest","doi":"10.32920/jcd.v7i2.2045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32920/jcd.v7i2.2045","url":null,"abstract":"I revisit prior auto-theoretical work on disordered eating, recounting its focus and explaining how it has since provoked me to rethink my art practice, in particular how it feels to use chance (aleatory) operations and how they intervene in the perfectionism that affects my self-image. I narrate the process of drawing several scribble portraits and reflect on how they elude the nagging pressure of perfectionism allied with realism. I cite recent review literature on the relation between perfectionism and disordered eating and on the efficacy of art therapies in eating disorders’ management and conclude by suggesting that chance operations from the historical and contemporary artistic avant-garde may offer useful strategies for future intervention and management of eating disorders.","PeriodicalId":486847,"journal":{"name":"Journal of critical dietetics","volume":" 394","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141823837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This review examines Phillip Joy and Megan Aston’s Queering Nutrition and Dietetics: LGBTQ+ Reflections on Food Through Art. Through intimate and critical reflexivity, the featured authors and artists offer readers a unique interpretation of nutrition and dietetics as a field that begs revitalization. By delving into the lives of queer individuals and their relationship with food, Joy and Aston address the prevalent marginalization that exists within nutritional healthcare. Queering Nutrition and Dietetics challenges conventional norms and opens new avenues of understanding through creative exploration and community building. This review explores the book's mission to create a more diverse and inclusive future, compelling readers and practitioners to take part in dismantling the barriers within nutritional healthcare and dietetics.
这篇评论探讨了菲利普-乔伊和梅根-阿斯顿（Megan Aston）的《Queering Nutrition and Dietetics》：LGBTQ+ 通过艺术对食物的反思》一书。通过亲密和批判性的反思，特约作者和艺术家为读者提供了对营养学和饮食学的独特诠释，将其视为一个亟待振兴的领域。通过深入探讨同性恋者的生活及其与食物的关系，Joy 和 Aston 解决了营养保健领域普遍存在的边缘化问题。Queering Nutrition and Dietetics》挑战了传统规范，通过创造性的探索和社区建设开辟了新的理解途径。这篇评论探讨了该书的使命，即创造一个更加多元化、更具包容性的未来，迫使读者和从业人员参与到消除营养保健和饮食学障碍的行动中来。
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Sainath Yeminedi, Deborah Norris, Linda Mann, Phillip Joy
LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, and other gender and sexually diverse) people have had a complex and rich history in India. Considering the influences of early Hindu teachings, the British East India Company, and the impacts of modern-day legislation, we trace some of the major knowledge, understandings, and events that have continuously reshaped the way LGBTQ+ people live in India. Our review of these key ’turning points’ in India can provide critical insights on the discrimination and stigma that is faced by many LGBTQ+ people in India. Discrimination can influence many aspects of health, including access to sufficient, safe, and nutritional foods. Understanding the roots of societal bias and stigma experienced by LGBTQ+ individuals in India is the first step in instituting policy changes that can address their health and food security needs. Insights from this work can also inspire future research focusing on the historical contexts of other cultures where LGBTQ+ people experience discrimination.
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During dietetic training, and often in post-graduate education, there is much focus on communication skills, and they are one of the cornerstones of clinical practice. Effective communication skills are utilised to gain and deliver information to patients and other healthcare professionals and negotiate behavioural change. However, what has been, and to some extent still is lacking, is education surrounding the appropriate use of language regarding inclusivity, such as relating to sexuality and gender identity. Utilizing appropriate language is key to building and sustaining therapeutic relationships and ensures that both the clinician and patient have the same interpretation of what is being asked. Both clinically, as well as within the research and industry setting, the appropriate use of language allows all parties involved to deliver and receive information in the most effective way. This opinion piece rooted in experiences and clinical practice of the author will focus on some useful language that should be considered when consulting with the LGBTQIA+ community relating to identities, relationships and activities within this diverse group of people.
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Sophia Hou, Megan White, Eric Ng, Sue Kelleher, Min Gao, Phillip Joy
The right to food is a fundamental human right, as established in international conventions and declarations. However, Canada has not explicitly protected the right to food in its Charter or National Food Policy. Food insecurity is a multifaceted issue requiring collaboration across different policy arenas and jurisdictions such as healthcare, housing, social assistance, and agriculture. For Two-Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex, asexual, and other sexually and gender diverse (2S/LGBTQIA+) populations, intersecting forms of discrimination and barriers to health, including ingrained cisheteronormativity, must also be considered. We approach the topic of food insecurity among 2S/LGBTQIA+ populations and the associated policy implications through the lens of Kimberle Crenshaw’s critical theory of intersectionality. Intersectionality theory recognizes that marginalized and polymarginalized groups experience discrimination along multiple axes. Policies which fail to recognize this serve to distort polymarginalized people’s lived experiences with issues such as food insecurity and may result in their legal and structural erasure. We aim to peel back the layers of policies affecting 2S/LGBTQIA+ Canadians experiencing food insecurity to reveal points of intersection that may have been rendered functionally invisible. First, we will describe the current national policy context related to food security and 2S/LGBTQIA+ communities. Then, we will undertake a multi-axes analysis to attempt to illuminate the complex and multi-dimensional experiences of 2S/LGBTQIA+ populations living with food insecurity, using Nova Scotia as a regional case study example. We conclude by exploring the implications for dietetic practice across health and food systems in improving the health of 2S/LGBTQIA+ populations.
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