DOI 10.60531/INSIGHTOUT.2023.1.2.| GERBER, KÜHNLENZ: DE-CONSTRUCTING FOOD_ INSIGHTOUT 1(2023) 17 as a source(especially in everyday historical con­texts) is certainly worthwhile and offers a previously often overlooked potential for the study of“race”, “class”and“gender”. An analysis of domestic work in“settler colonial house and plantation museums”, which barely touches on the(domestic and slave) work performed there, shows how focusing on or­dinary everyday things enables intersectional and power-critical views of US history that have been shaped by“race”,“class” and“gender” asymmetries and the way they are communicated in museums. Williams-Forson uses various household objects and cooking utensils from George Washington’s Mount Vernon Home Estate House Museum to show how the search for the“absent potential” of these objects can lead to an intersectionally more aware proces­sing and mediation of a history shaped by violence and inequality. Food and drink can serve as a means of construc­ting community. Holly Porteous demonstrates this using the example of a British museum that is also a library, archive and neighbourhood meeting point. Offering a cup of tea turns out to be an inclusive element for(new) visitors: not only does it make it easier for them to cross the threshold to the mu­seum and strike up a conversation, but it also helps them to stave off loneliness. A porcelain tea set is used; in other words, a special level of respect is shown to the guests by using a specific material culture. In this way, the museum becomes an inclu­sive venue that creates a sense of community and cohesion through a feminist reinterpretation of the practice of hospitality. “race” and a reflection of one’s own sense of positi­on in order to draw up and implement diversity- and classism-sensitive intervention formats. Personal life stories and emotions are a fundamental ele­ment of the intersectional exploration of not least media-mediated discourses, for example through food ads in Germany in the 1990s and 2000s. Their approach shows that one’s own experiences and sensitisation to specific classist forms of discri­mination gives rise to situated knowledge that can be used as a resource for empowerment and to ad­dress discriminatory structures. To make the text as inclusive as possible to its readership, it is published in both English and German. Ana Daldon uses a card game to test the waters, as it were, for the best way to exhibit the concept of fat. The fact that the results of the group work carried out in the workshop were so different also illustra­tes the constructed quality of exhibitions. This play­ful and creative approach also proves to be a queer method in that it dissolves the boundaries between museum experts, potential visitors, teachers and learners through a collective curatorial practice. Last but not least, queer and fat activism have simi­larities and parallels, also linguistically, through the re-appropriation of pejorative terms and experien­ces of discrimination and pathologising. As much as deconstruction was the common thread running through the workshop, the outcome itself was constructive. For one thing, the presentations resulted in the publication of this first edition of in­sightOut. Philipp Hagemann and Alexander Wagner see food and nutrition as decidedly political fields, and their contribution is devoted to the relationship between food, class and family-based care relationships. A research laboratory for interventions against clas­sism –*FLINK for short – is set up under the rubrics of gender, materiality, power, space, knowledge, Working and exploring collectively, i.e. through exchanges, meant that the suppo­sed gap between museum and university research receded into the background, as did the boundaries between scientific disci­plines and between objectivity and emotio­nality.