Food is an act of resistance and self-care. What does this look like for queer communities who are often portrayed in unrealistic ways in media and bound by social constructs? How does food sovereignty, culinary expression, and sexuality play a role in loving ourselves as queer folks?

Join Andreas of The Aphrodisiac Kitchen in discussion with Luz Cruz of Cuir Kitchen Brigade for a night of exploring and celebrating queer bodies and their relationships with food. 

This program is part of a virtual partnership series between MOFAD and Queer Food Foundation in June in celebration and recognition of Pride Month.

ANDREAS CARVER

Andreas is the founder of The Aphrodisiac Kitchen, an online based journal that explores plant based cooking and human interaction through romantic narrative.

LUCECITA CRUZ

Lucecita “Luz” Cruz is a Queer Afro Latinx farmer, organizer, chef and writer from the Puerto Rican Diaspora . They are fighting to protect front line communities who are affected by food injustice and climate change. They have organized with inter-generational BIPOC Queer and Trans folks around gender, race and food. Luz organizes in a way that combines writing, food and activism to better understand our current conditions and develop ways to help fix them. 

QUEER FOOD FOUNDATION

The mission of The Queer Food Foundation (QFF) is to promote, protect, fund and create queer food spaces; to celebrate and honor queer food workers and chefs that produce radically diverse and equitable food.