Today’s readings and Professor’s Vioori’s lecture through the lens of queer and feminist foodways exposed me to a topic that I was previously unfamiliar with, particularly the connection between veganism/vegetarianism and the LGBTQ community.

In regards to the comics, I did not initially think of the potluck and outdoor wedding in terms of using this as a means to save money, possibly due to lack of familial support, and to break away from the traditional norms associated with most heterosexual weddings (i.e. wearing white, at a fancy venue, with heterosexual family members, etc). I also liked how the comics made an effort to breaking away from explicit stereotypes about groups of people in the scene at the diner, when at first the characters had assumptions that were later broken in a positive way.