A study co-written by Lisa Jordan Powell, a UBC postdoctoral researcher in the faculty of land and food systems, was featured in a Globe and Mail opinion column.
The study, titled “The Perilous Whiteness of Pumpkins,” examines the symbolic whiteness associated with pumpkins in the modern-day United States.
“Science that built on the foundations of masculine rationality and abstract logic can’t possibly reflect the experience of women and minorities. Therefore, feelings, anecdotes and ‘lived experience’ vastly outweigh what used to be known as ‘objective truth,’” the author wrote.
