About
pruneah Kim (she/her) is a PhD candidate in American Culture Studies at the University of Michigan. As a critical food scholar, she is invested in honouring the lived experiences and expertise of queer and diasporic communities’ use of food as a worldbuilding strategy. Her dissertation project, Visceral Consumption: Digital Food Cultures and Asian American Racialization, explores how food and digital food media act as key technologies of racial formation that make Asian American racialization a visceral object of consumption in the everyday. In situating viscerality as the privileged site through which seemingly abstract and immaterial logics of colonialism and postcolonialism are registered materially and intimately in our everyday, visceral consumption accounts for how viscerality becomes a critical site through which racial consumption occurs, especially in our computational present.
Her work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as the Critical Perspectives of Food Studies anthology, the Canadian Geographer, and Knots: An Undergraduate Journal of Disability Studies. Along with her academic work, pruneah collaborates with Toronto-based food organizations to create and facilitate community-based food programming and mutual aid projects focused on expanding practices of cultural food security and sovereignty.
