Poor People Food: What Jelly Reveals About Poverty Management by Kyla Wazana Tompkins

Poor People Food: What Jelly Reveals About Poverty Management by Kyla Wazana Tompkins

An excerpt from Deviant Matter: Ferment, Intoxicants, Jelly, Rot Deviant Matter delves into a vast archive that includes nineteenth-century medical and scientific writing; newspaper comic strips and early film; the Food and Drug Act of 1906; the literature of Martin Delany, Louisa May Alcott and Herman Melville; and twenty-first century queer minoritarian video, installation, and performance art. In this excerpt, Tompkins explores the representa…