Episode 112: The Practice and Politics of Food in the Chinese Diaspora (With Sim Cheuanghane)

Sim Cheuanghane is a multidisciplinary artist, curator and DJ who recently wrote an anthropology thesis entitled "Food as Practice: Navigations of Chinese Diasporic Identity Through Food Making and Sharing". This work explores the Chinese diaspora and the role of food in the process of re-connecting and re-constructing individual and collective identities and forging solidarity.

Through their work, we learn how food takes on meaning beyond nourishment — to signify movement, pleasure, connection, emotion and even a form of protest for racialised people. Sim’s work is rich with emotion, story and taste- so we are excited to have them them speak to it.

In this interview, Sim mentions a zine on Chinese Protest Recipes, which can be found here.

This episode was hosted by Darren Lesaguis and Sara Khan with special guest Sim Cheuanghane. It was produced and edited by Shareeka Helaluddin. Cover image: a portrait of Sim courtesy of the artist.

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