long time no see lol
I HATE BEING AMERICAN
i put together a list of readings on the history of agriculture, food & food justice in black communities in america that i’ve been working through, thought i’d share it here in case others are interested:
articles/lists
- “Black Communities Have Always Used Food as Protest” by Amethyst Ganaway
- “Restaurants Must Use This Moment to Change, Too” by Amethyst Ganaway
- “Cooking Up Change: How Food Helped Fuel The Civil Rights Movement” by Nancy Schute
- “How to Eat to Live: Black Nationalism and the Post-1964 Culinary Turn” by Jennifer Jensen Wallach
- “There were nearly a million black farmers in 1920. Why have they disappeared?” by Summer Sewell
- “The Great Land Robbery: The shameful story of how 1 million black families have been ripped from their farms” by Vann R. Newkirk II
- “Their Family Bought Land One Generation After Slavery. The Reels Brothers Spent Eight Years in Jail for Refusing to Leave It.” by Lizzie Presser
- @/NFUDC (National Farmers Union): How to fight racism in agriculture (twitter thread dated June 2, 2020)
- Want to See Food and Land Justice for Black Americans? Support These Groups.
- 21 Individuals and Organizations Building Stronger Black Communities and Food Systems
books (**full text available for free)
- **Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement by Monica M. White
- **Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class, and Sustainability ed. Alison Hope Alkon and Julian Agyeman
- **Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C. by Ashanté M. Reese
- **Dispossession: Discrimination against African American Farmers in the Age of Civil Rights by Peter Daniel
- The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South by Michael W. Twitty
- Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power by Psyche A. Williams-Forson
- In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World by Judith A. Carney & Black Rice by Judith A. Carney
- Recipes for Respect: African American Meals and Meaning by Rafia Zafar
- Southern Food and Civil Rights: Feeding the Revolution by Frederick Douglass Opie
- Every Nation Has Its Dish: Black Bodies and Black Food in Twentieth-Century America by Jennifer Jensen Wallach
- Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America by Marcia Chatelain
- Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land by Leah Penniman
podcasts / television
- Sporkful – When White People Say Plantation & When Black Chefs Created Plantation Food
- The Kitchen Sisters / Hidden Kitchens – Hercules and Hemings: African American Cooks in the President’s Kitchen – King’s Candy: A New Orleans Kitchen Vision – Georgia Gilmore and the Club from Nowhere: A Secret Civil Rights Kitchen
- 1619 – Episode 5: The Land of Our Fathers, Part 1 & Part 2
- Chef’s Table – 6x01: Mashama Bailey (on Netflix)
further reading lists
ppl who bind: what binders have you used that are awesome? which ones have u used that are terrible? i really want a binder but i have no idea where to start, and don’t wanna waste money on a crappy one
just once in my life i wanna get up in the morning without going through the full seven stages of grief first
What are the extra two?
Denial 2 and Astral Projection
fine af
talk about this is going around - but it’s really hard to find credible, up-to-date sources on it. so hopefully this clears some things up
the theme is Black Lives Matter.
so like.. there’s news floating around (but not on credible websites) about trump wanting to make it okay to deny same sex couples to adopt, but if you look into it, it seems like everything around this happened last summer/ fall - and is not currently happening. Am I missing something?
Ok so I’ve been losing sleep over this for literal years. Consider the Smuckers Uncrustable. Is it a sandwich, a pie, or a dumpling? Please help.
it’s official classification is actually as a form of ravioli, if that helps
Torbernite - Margabal Mine, Aveyron, Midi-Pyrénées, France
listen my dude…. reagan.
I'm am DECEASED lol