Chewing the Fat: Romancing the Pig: A Queer Crip Tale from Barbecue to Xenotransplantation

Kim Q. Hall is the director of the Women’s Studies program and a professor of Philosophy at Appalachian State University. Hall has edited a number of volumes on disability studies and feminism, including the under-contract Oxford Handbook of Feminist Philosophy. Hall’s recent work has probed questions of disability, queerness, and sustainability discourses, with special attention to issues in food systems and food justice. Hall’s talk is entitled “Romancing the Pig: A Queer Crip Tale from Barbecue to Xenotransplantation.” This event is co-sponsored by the Yale Sustainable Food Program and the James Mandelbaum and Steven Byrnes Resource Fund for LGBT Studies.