Brown Bag Lecture: “Put a Taste of the South in Your Mouth: Carnal Appetites and Intersextionality”

Jaime Cantrell, UM Visiting Assistant Professor of English. Thinking sex through food in hypervisible works of lesbian poetry and fiction expands the possibilities for negotiating sexuality beyond the individual body and into the social realm. If we “stand detached” from sexuality and “bracket its familiarity” within the multiple identity forming sites and fracturing spaces that a model of thinking food reveals, we begin to develop a politics of sexuality rooted in connection and disconnection, where bodies live in food and sex knowledge and through structures of intense sociality.

Brown Bag Lectures take place each Wednesday at noon during the school year in Barnard Observatory.