Racial Indigestion Barbara Bell and affirming manual for mental

and affirming manual for mental health clinicians working with patients of diverse gender and sexual identities

informed by (among others) Dylan Thomas

Taking a biopsychosocial approach

New Hampshire

Racial Indigestion Barbara Bell and affirming manual for mentalWinner of the 2013 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize presented by the American Studies Association Winner of the 2013 Association for the Study of Food and Society Book Award The act of eating is both erotic and violent, as one wholly consumes the object being eaten. At the same time, eating performs a kind of vulnerability to the world, revealing a fundamental interdependence between the eater and that which exists outside her body. Racial