My Wiscon panel schedule

[firecat]

Will you be coming to Wiscon?

We All Start Somewhere: Welcoming Social Justice Newbies
Fri, 4:00–5:15 pm
Conference 4
Moderator: Jacquelyn Gill.
Many people aren't born into families that talk a lot about or value social justice. We come from all different backgrounds with all different kinds of experiences. When someone wants to gain a better understanding of and start practicing social justice, how do we, as a community, welcome them and offer opportunities for education? How do we deal with the same basic questions over and over again? What do we do well? What could we do better?

Privilege in the Kitchen: Food Snobbery and Culinary Condescension
Sat, 2:30–3:45 pm Caucus
Foodieism is all the rage these days and while there's nothing wrong with making and enjoying good food, it seems to go hand in hand with a sense of condescension when it comes to cheap, simple fare; fattening foods (except for bacon, of course); and "poor food," the kind of thing prepared with a packet of this and a couple cans of that. Let us discuss economics, classism, racism, sizeism, and ableism in the ways we prepare, present, and talk about food.

Comments

[megpie71]

Unfortunately Wiscon is a bit of a walk for me (from Australia *grin*), so I won't be able to make it. I agree with other people that the second panel sounds intriguing, and I'd love to hear how it went.

Personal anecdata: Up until about three or four years ago, my partner and I used to eat a lot of lamb shank casseroles and other cheap cuts of meat (gravy beef, chuck steak, pork spare ribs etc). Then the foodies found them, and the prices for a couple of lamb shanks doubled, and the prices of all the cheap cuts went up out of our reach - not helped by the dole rate being frozen by the government, either. These days the only meat we can afford on a regular basis is either cheap mince, cheap sausages, or chicken drumsticks. None of which are precisely exciting or interesting, or even much good in a slow cooker. So instead of being able to prepare a slow cooker meal early in the day when I have all my spoons, I now have to put something together later in the day, when I'm more likely to be tired out and uninterested in cooking, and it's much more likely to be something put together out of a few cans of whatever I have in the pantry. So there's a neat intersection of food snobbery, class effects, and disability effects for you.

[firecat]

I'll try to write up something. Thank you for the personal anecdata. May I share it at the panel? If so what name do you want me to use for the attribution?

[megpie71]

Using it is fine, credit me as Megpie71. Might want to make it clear that it's an Australian context - but I suspect there are similar situations happening in the US as well.

[firecat]

Thank you! Will do.