Feminist Food Stories: Recent Episodes
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Hi everyone — Isabela here with our second-last edition of this autumn’s SPOTLIGHT series. Today, we’re honoured to feature an audio interview with Lama Obeid, a Ramallah-based writer and reporter whose work focuses on culture, gastronomy, and food politics in the context of the ongoing Israeli occupation.
This interview is a deep dive into themes from Lama’s work, which we covered in a short feature last May. Today, Lama and I discuss:
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Palestinian food culture, particularly its emphasis on communal cooking and eating
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The impact of the occupation on food sovereignty in Gaza and the West Bank
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The sensitivities of reporting on food culture and heritage when people don’t have enough food to eat
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The importance of recognizing Palestinian recipes as Palestinian
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What food means to Lama’s identity as a Palestinian woman, and much more.
A note on context
This interview was recorded in late June of 2025. The situation on the ground in Gaza has continued to evolve, but the themes discussed here by Lama remain critical. Over the summer, the world bore witness to devastating levels of starvation architected by Israel, which UN Secretary-General António Guterres referred to as a “man-made disaster, a moral indictment — and a failure of humanity itself”. While a so-called ceasefire came into force on October 10, the violence has not stopped: Palestinian health authorities said 260 people had been killed since the ceasefire began. Bisan Owda, a journalist on the ground in Gaza, reports that Israel is only allowing “junk food” to enter Gaza, and that farmers remain barred from returning to the east and north areas of the strip, which constitutes nearly all of the territory’s fertile land. “A nation that is not independent in its food cannot be free,” she adds. This echoes many of the arguments made by Lama in today’s podcast.
At the time of publishing, the UN Security Council has just voted to approve a US-backed Gaza peace plan, despite Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continuing to insist that there can be no viable path to Palestinian statehood. Even if Palestine is slipping away from the headlines, it’s imperative to continue talking about it, and we’re so grateful that Lama took the time to do that with us. To stay up to date with her work, subscribe to her incredible newsletter, I Come From There, where she shares poetry, interviews, fiction, and some of her reporting. - Isabela
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In January 2024, we sat down with hosts Jackie Turner and Matthew Kessler to record an episode for one of our favourite food podcasts, Feed by Table Debates. We’ve been fans of Feed since its inception — in the early days of FFJ, they were running a season on power in the food system — and to be hosted on our own episode was truly a dream come true. The episode was just released two weeks ago, and we’re syndicating it here as we know many of you will be interested in the topics we discussed.
This Feed season focused on the overarching question: “should food systems be more natural?” In this episode, we wanted to explore the deeper questions around “natural” diets: whose labour makes them possible, who can afford them, and how culture and experience shape our food choices. We dive into these issues and uncover how a simple "natural foods" search on TikTok exposes striking gender dynamics.
As host Jackie aptly notes in her introduction to the podcast, the political context around this discussion has changed significantly in the 13 months that have passed since recording. “Making America Healthy Again” by shifting towards more natural foods is now firmly on the U.S.’ political agenda, with RFK at the helm. Meanwhile, recent surveys show that the share of Republican men who believe that women should return to their “traditional roles” was at 48% in November 2024, up from 28% in May 2022 (among Republican women, this figure has similarly jumped from 23% to 37% ). What do these figures mean in the context of an unprecedented political interest in changing the ways that Americans eat? On whose backs are those in power expecting this shift to be built? The TikTok “Tradwife” (in essence, women who embrace and promote traditional gender roles) clips that Jackie shares with us in the episode give us some indication. In retrospect, they were a harbinger of the cultural shifts that were already churning in the last Biden year and for all of their aesthetically-pleasing serenity, offer a more dystopian vision of what (or who) will become the lifeblood of America’s “health”.
As always, we’d love to hear what you think — and please subscribe to Feed if you haven’t already!
Isabela and Zoë
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Can we square our love of animals with our inability to stop eating their body parts? In this short audio essay, Feminist Food Journal editor Isabela chronicles her evolving relationship with vegetarianism and stubborn love of offal to unpack what meat means to our sense of self.
This podcast features writing and sound editing by Isabela Bonnevera and original music by the Electric Muffin Research Kitchen.
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This is an audio reading of Meat: The Four Futures, first published last week by TABLE researcher Tamsin Blaxter as part of our MEAT issue. Tamsin breaks down the gendered dimensions of different future visions on meat, weaving together strands of feminist and postcolonial history to examine why certain futures resonate differently with different folks, and what direction techno-meat is heading in.
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By Amirio Freeman
At the end of every school year growing up, there was always one event that I looked forward to more than any other summer activity: family cookouts—especially those featuring my dad as the grill master. I have yet to taste a burger that’s better than one grilled by my father and I cower at the thought of attempting to replicate his mastery. As the oldest of three boys, there’s a shared sense that I’m responsible for preserving this family tradition. However, the domain of grilling has always felt overly masculine and, therefore, incompatible with a queer Black boy like me.
Meat has long been associated with masculinity, and one of the preeminent methods of cooking meat has long been associated with men. Just look at the way Father’s Day ads are consistently inundated with images of men placing an assortment of foods on heat. In my Southern household, grilling is also steeped in a rich Black tradition. Still, the overwhelming maleness of grilling imagery and culture has made it a tradition that I’m hesitant to continue. But at the same time, there is something about the maleness of the act that is intriguing: Especially in my family, the spaces where grilling is happening are also where men are together in rare moments of intimacy. While grilling invokes in me an anxiety around a kind of gender failure, there’s also a kind of queerness to grilling, which creates portals to Black male tenderness.
In this podcast, through a conversation with my father, I dig into the gender, racial, and queer dynamics of grilling. Drawing on references to literature investigating meat’s link to masculinity, the piece offers an intimate dialogue between family members about how the act of bringing meat to a flame reflects Black food traditions in need of stewards, impositions of gender performance, and food as a vehicle for queer possibilities.
Further Reading
One Nation Over Coals: Cold War Nationalism and the Barbecue by Kristin L. Matthews, in American Studies, 50(3/4), 5-34. (Or read this summary blog)
Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue by Adrian Miller (Or read this interview with the author)
Credits
This episode was scripted and narrated by Amirio Freeman and edited and produced by Joy Imani Bullock.
Amirio Freeman (he/they) is a writer, interviewer, and audio storyteller who explores the relationship between humans and our beyond-human kin through a Black, queer lens. Amirio’s writing has been published in Broccoli Magazine, It’s Freezing in LA!, and Are.na Annual, among other publications. In partnership with Loam, the publishing branch of the Weaving Earth Center for Relational Education, they hosted the Loam Listen podcast from 2020-2022 as well as developed the Down to Earth Deck. Amirio is from coastal Virginia and currently resides in Philadelphia, PA, where they write their newsletter, PLANTCRAFT.
Joy Imani Bullock is a multimedia creative and dedicated storyteller. She works with mediums including film photography, digital photography, and video.
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The Shadow Mothers, an essay about the foreign domestic workers who power the city of Hong Kong. Through the story of her family’s own foreign helper, Jia, author Chelsea Lee reflects on the meaning of love and labour, given that Jia sacrificed much of her own life so Chelsea’s family could have theirs.
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In this podcast, Troy Bright, a self-taught orca researcher, shares his knowledge of orcas’ rich matriarchal societies, their unique food cultures, and how our human food systems are putting this way of life at risk. This includes over-extraction of salmon, a key food source for orcas which Indigenous nations managed sustainably for thousands of years before colonization; Isabela dig into the links between the historical treatment of Indigenous women in the salmon canning industry and high levels of food insecurity among Indigenous and racialized women in British Colombia today.
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In this episode of Feminist Food Stories, Isabela sits down with Alison Hope Alkon, Associate Professor of Teaching in the Community Studies Program in the Department of Sociology at UCSC and co-editor of A Recipe for Gentrification: Food, Power, and Resistance in the City. Published in July 2020 by NYU Press and focused on large to mid-sized cities in Canada and the US, the edited volume explores the complex links between food, urban development, gentrification, and the right to the city.
Isabela and Alison reflect on the book’s findings to discuss why we should include food in conversations about gentrification, and vice-versa; how to understand gentrification as an outcome of cultural or structural drivers; how well-intended activities like urban agriculture and food activism can inadvertently displace vulnerable communities, and how gentrification links to gender and racial justice.
Credits
This episode features research, writing, and sound editing by Isabela Vera and original music by the Electric Muffin Research Kitchen.
Big thanks to all contributors to A Recipe for Gentrification, whose insights and analysis were instrumental in shaping this interview.
Transcript
A full transcript of the episode is available online here.
Further reading
Books
Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class, and Sustainability. (2011). Edited by Alison Hope Alkon and Julian Agyeman.
Urban Alchemy: Restoring Joy in America's Sorted-Out Cities (2013). Mindy Thompson Fullilove.
Journals
Anguelovski, I. (2015). Alternative food provision conflicts in cities: Contesting food privilege, injustice, and whiteness in Jamaica Plain, Boston. Geoforum, 58, 184-194. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2014.10.014
Anguelovski, I., Brand, A. L., Ranganathan, M., & Hyra, D. (2022). Decolonizing the Green City: From Environmental Privilege to Emancipatory Green Justice. Environmental Justice, 15(1), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1089/env.2021.0014
Bonotti, M., Barnhill, A. Food, Gentrification and Located Life Plans. Food ethics 7, 8 (2022). https://rdcu.be/dhzRR
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Esta es una versión en audio del artículo "Sin ellas no hay maíz ni país", escrito (y narrado aquí) por María Villalpando para nuestro número de TIERRA.
You can also read and listen to the original English-language version.
En México, el trabajo y conocimiento de las tortilleras, — mujeres que hacen y venden tortillas de manera tradicional — son fundamentales para conservar la agrobiodiversidad y las prácticas alimentarias tradicionales. Al reflexionar sobre el uso de la leña para la transformación de los alimentos en el campo mexicano, encontramos el particular vínculo entre las relaciones de género, la construcción de soberanía alimentaria y el uso de recursos energéticos para la transformación del maíz en alimento.
Por María Villalpando | Traducido por Ignacio Ahijado
María Villalpando es una estudiante de doctorado mexicana en la Universidad de California, Berkeley. María está interesada en las complejidades de los espacios rurales de México y entiende la escritura y la investigación como prácticas socialmente comprometidas.
Ignacio Ahijado es traductor, mediador intercultural y gestor de comunicación en Nested CoLab. Actualmente vive en Lisboa, enclave atlántico desde donde busca construir puentes entre personas, culturas y territorios.
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In this episode, FFJ co-founding editor Zoë Johnson had the honour of speaking with Melanie Allen and amanda david about their work with the incredible Black Farmer Fund. They cover power in our food systems, the complexities of cultivating land in a capitalist settler-colonial context, and much more.
Credits
This episode features writing and sound editing by Zoë Johson; Research by Zoë Johnson & Isabela Vera; and original music by the Electric Muffin Research Kitchen.
Audio clips include Dr. Alice Ragland, from her recording of “More Radical Than It May Seem” from Feminist Food Journal, and Karen Washington, from the video “Community Wealth Building” by Black Farmer Fund.
Transcript
Full transcript of the podcast available here.
Shownotes
Learn more about Black Farmer Fund on their website, where you can also watch the powerful “Black Farmers Thriving” video series. For more information on investing, you can email invest@blackfarmerfund.com.
Check out amanda david’s initiative, Rootwork Herbals and read about the Jane Minor BIPOC Community Medicine Garden.
Further Readings
“The Great Land Robbery” (Vann R. Newkirk II, The Atlantic)
“Help Black Farmers, Who Know Hyperlocal Doesn’t Mean Fancy” (Tressie McMillan Cottom, The New York Times)
“Race, Land, and the Law: Black Farmers and the Limits of a Politics of Recognition”(Brian Williams and Tyler McCreary, Black Food Matters: Racial Justice in the Wake of Food Justice)
“The USDA Is Set To Give Black Farmers Debt Relief. They've Heard That One Before” (Emma Hurt, NPR)
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ḥačatakma c̓awaak (Everything is interconnected)
In this episode of Feminist Food Stories, editor Isabela sits down with Charlotte Coté, Professor in the Department of American Indian Studies at the University of Washington and author of A Drum in One Hand, A Sockeye in the Other: Stories of Indigenous Food Sovereignty from the Northwest Coast.
They discuss the role of gender in Indigenous food sovereignty in both the past and present, the risks of “culinary imperialism” in blanket calls to veganize our diets, how social media enables Indigenous peoples to tell their own stories about food, and the ways that going back to the land with a “colonized” mindset can lead to missed opportunities for true connection.
Transcript
Full transcript of the podcast available here.
Shownotes and further resources
Coté, C (2022). A Drum in One Hand, a Sockeye in the Other: Stories of Indigenous Food Sovereignty from the Northwest Coast. University of Washington Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv289dw4p
Coté, C. (2022, Oct 17). ḥačatakma c̓awaak (everything is interconnected). Indigenous food sovereignty, health, resilience and sustainability. Talk given at President’s Dream Colloquium on Indigenous Peoples and Local Community Perspectives on Sustainability and Resilience. Simon Fraser University, Harbour Centre, Vancouver.
Coté, C. (2022, Oct 6). “c̓uumaʕas. The River that Runs through Us”. Talk given at the Oregon Humanities Center, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon.
Coté, C. (2022, Sep 28). UO Today interview: Charlotte Coté (Tseshaht First Nation), Amer. Indian Studies, University of Washington. University of Oregon.
Coté, C. (2022, March 16). Exploring Indigenous Food Sovereignty with Dr. Charlotte Coté. MOHAI History Café. Download program transcript: https://adobe.ly/3PGcnPs
Coté, C. (2022, March 3). Charlotte Coté with Dana Arviso: Stories of Indigenous Food Sovereignty from the NW Town Hall Seattle.
Coté, C. (2019). hishuk’ish tsawalk—Everything is One: Revitalizing Place-Based Indigenous Food Systems through the Enactment of Food Sovereignty. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 9(A), 37–48. https://doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2019.09A.003
Nast, C. (2020, November 8). This Inukj Throat Singer is Bringing Cultural Pride to TikTok. Vogue. https://www.vogue.com/article/shina-novalinga-indigenous-inuk-throat-singer-tiktok
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In an interesting twist, this is an in-house interview with FFJ’s founding editors. Isabela talks to Zoë about her master's thesis research on bunabéts, otherwise known as coffee houses, in Ethiopia and the links between serving coffee feminization and the sexualization of feminized labour.
Zoë's research went on to be published in the Journal of Gender and Research. You can read it here.
This podcast features writing, research, and sound editing by Isabela Vera and Zoë Johnson and original music from the Electric Muffin Research Kitchen. You can also listen to it on Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts.
Further reading
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Bhopal, K. (2010). 'Gender, Identity and Experience: Researching Marginalised Groups.' Women's Studies International Forum, (33, 3: 188-195).
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Campbell, R., & Wasco, S. M. (2000). 'Feminist Approaches to Social Science: Epistemological and Methodological Tenets.' American Journal of Community Psychology, (28, 6: 773-791).
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Cornwall, A., & Anyidoho, N. A. (2010). 'Introduction: Women's Empowerment: Contentions and Contestations.' Development, (53, 2: 144-149).
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Cornwall, A., Harrison, E., & Whitehead, A. (2008). 'Gender Myths and Feminist Fables: The Struggle for Interpretive Power in Gender and Development.' In A. Cornwall, E. Harrison, & A. Whitehead,(Eds: pp. 1-19 ). Gender Myths and Feminist Fables. Malden. MA: Blackwell Publishing.
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Devault, M. L. (1990). 'Talking and Listening from Women's Standpoint: Feminist Strategies for Interviewing and Analysis.' Social Problems, (37, 1: 96-116).
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Gregson, N., & Rose, G. (2000). 'Taking Butler Elsewhere: Performativities, Spatialities and Subjectivities.' Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, (18, 4: 433-452).
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Hoppe, K. (1993). 'Whose Life Is It, Anyway?: Issues of Representation in Life Narrative Texts of African Women.' The International Journal of African Historical Studies, (26, 3: 623-636).
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McRobbie, A. (2009). The Aftermath of Feminism: Gender, Culture and Social Change. London: SAGE.
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Peacock, J. L., & Holland, D. C. (1993). 'The Narrated Self: Life Stories in Process.' Ethos, (21, 4: 367-383).
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Shain, F. (2012). '"The Girl Effect": Exploring Narratives of Gendered Impacts and Opportunities in Neoliberal Development.' Sociological Research Online, (18, 2: 181-191).
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van Stapele, N. (2014 March). 'Intersubjectivity, Self-Reflexivity and Agency: Narrating About "Self" and "Other" in Feminist Research.' Women's Studies International Forum, (43: 13-21).
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This is an audio reading of Just Because I Bottom, Doesn’t Mean I’ll Make You a Sandwich, narrated by Pericles Santis and writtenby Jay Gee for our SEX issue. Read the original article here.
Further reading
Atwood, S. F. (2019). The Determination of Gender Roles and Power Dynamics Within Female Same Sex Couples. University of Northern Iowa. https://scholarworks.uni.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1404&context=hpt
Gill, R., and Orgad, S. (2018). The Shifting Terrain of Sex and Power: From ‘sexualization of culture’ to #MeToo. Sexualities, Vol. 2(8), 1313-1324. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1363460718794647?journalCode=sexa
Milton, J. (2022, February 8). ‘The long, deep, surprisingly versatile history of bottoms: From Ancient Greece to modern misogyny’. Pink News. https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/08/bottoming-history-gay-bottoms/
Tarrant S. (2013). Men Speak Out: Views on Gender, Sex, and Power. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Men-Speak-Out-Views-on-Gender-Sex-and-Power/Tarrant/p/book/9780415521086
Trotman, A.D. (2017). Relationship and Power Dynamics in Women’s Same Sex Abusive Couples. University of Rhode Island. https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1619&context=oa_diss
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Is there social, political, economic, and cultural war being waged on fat bodies? Scholars have argued that fat stigma is contributing to the social and physiological harm of fat people and that this stigma is in fact a central driver of morbidity and mortality at a population level. For FFJ’s second issue, WAR, our editor Zoë brings you another episode of Feminist Food Stories featuring her conversation with two scholars working at the intersection of food studies and fat studies. They discuss the war on “obesity”, its roots, its manifestations in the food movement, and their hopes for fat food justice in the future.
This podcast features writing, research, and sound editing by Zoë Johnson and original music from the Electric Muffin Research Kitchen. You can also listen to it on Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts.
SHOWNOTES
Transcript
Read the show transcript here.
Further reading
Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C.(Ashanté M. Reese)
Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness(Da’Shaun L. Harrison)
“Can't Stomach It: How Michael Pollan et al. Made Me Want to Eat Cheetos” (Julie Guthman)
“The Fallacy of Eating The Way Your Great-Grandmother Ate” (Virginia Sole-Smith)
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia(Sabrina Strings)
Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement(Monica White)
“It’s Not a Food Desert, It’s Food Apartheid” (Karen Washington)
Modern Food, Moral Food: Self-Control, Science, and the Rise of Modern American Eating in the Early Twentieth Century (Helen Zoe Veit)
“Public Health’s Power-Neutral, Fatphobic Obsession with ‘Food Deserts’”(Marquisele Mercedes)
More activists and scholars to read, learn about, and follow:
Cat Pausé
Erica Zurawski
Lindley Ashline
Psyche Williams-Forson
Ragen Chastain
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Paris, 1942. A group of women storm a grocery store on the Rue de Buci to seize the sardines on sale that day and distribute them to a hungry crowd. A scuffle ensues, shots ring out — and at the end, two policemen are dead. Today, the Rue de Buci event is remembered as an act of women’s resistance during wartime. But is that all there is to it?
In this episode of Feminist Food Stories, founding editor Isabela sits down with Paula Schwarz, the Lois B. Watson Professor Emerita of French & Francophone Studies at Middlebury College and author of Today Sardines Are Not For Sale: A Street Protest in Occupied Paris, to discuss the intersections of wartime food politics and gender, and why and how resistance is remembered in different ways.
This podcast features writing and research by Isabela Vera; sound editing by Isabela Vera & Zoë Johnson, and original music by the Electric Muffin Research Kitchen. You can also listen to it on Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts.
SHOWNOTES
Transcript
Read the show transcript here.
Further reading
Boyle, E. (n.d.). Wartime Memories: Louise Mardon. https://www.eleanorboyle.com/wartime-memories/louise-mardon
Brown, T. (2022). The Breadwinners: The Women Whose Hunger Drove the French Revolution. Feminist Food Journal.
Hunt, K. (2010). The Politics of Food and Women's Neighborhood Activism in First World War Britain. International Labor and Working-Class History, 77(1), 8-26. doi:10.1017/S0147547909990226
Schwartz, P. (1999). The politics of food and gender in occupied Paris. Modern & Contemporary France, 7:1, 35-45, DOI: 10.1080/09639489908456468.
Schwartz, P. (2020). Today Sardines Are Not For Sale: A Street Protest in Occupied Paris. Oxford University Press. (If you’re interested in reading it, you can order it using the discount code here!)
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For this month’s Letter from the Editors, Zoë spoke with three feminist activists behind a virtual cooking class in support of Feminist Workshop (a Ukrainian NGO). In this podcast, they discuss food, war, and feminist organizing.
This podcast was written and produced by Zoë Johnson with original music by the Electric Muffin Research Kitchen.
SHOWNOTES
Transcript
Read the show transcript here.
Resources
Learn more about Feminist Workshop and donate to their feminist and queer mutual aid in Lviv via GoFundMe;
Check the list of feminist, LGBTQI, disability justice groups in Ukraine and donate to them directly;
Read the Solidarity Statement and Call for Action; and
Follow Sonaksha Iyengar, who did the beautiful graphics for Cooking Up Resistance.
Featured Audio Clips
Woman at war by Benedikt Erlingsson (2018): Ukrainian folk singers
Feminist Workshop: “Sex, Freedom, Money: What more do feminists want? (“СЕКС, СВОБОДА, ГРОШІ: ЧОГО ЩЕ ХОЧУТЬ ФЕМІНІСТКИ?”)
NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday: “Ukrainian women are volunteering to fight, continuing a tradition”
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This is the audio version of ‘The Childless Mothers’, a piece written by Lauren Gitlin for our MILK issue and read here by the author herself. Lauren is a former food scholar, journalist, and wine professional who currently owns and operates Villa Villekulla Farm, a goat microdairy in Barnard, Vermont.
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Passover is upon us, and what better time to reflect on a Jewish mother's love for her children? Our MILK highlight of the week is editor Isabela's audio story, A Treasure for My Daughter, where she explores growth and sacrifice through the lens of her mom's non-kosher kitchen (and fluffy matzo balls). Dig in, eat on, and celebrate the eternal complexity that is food and family.
This podcast features writing and research by Isabela Vera; sound editing by Isabela Vera & Zoë Johnson, and original music by the Electric Muffin Research Kitchen. You can also listen to it on Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts.
SHOWNOTES
Transcript
Read the show transcript here.
Photos
For reference, here is my mom and I enjoying French delights on a trip to Paris that we took in March 2005, lieu of my having a bat mitzvah.
Further readings
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Milk is a highly contested beverage, but not always for the reasons you might think. In this episode of Feminist Food Stories (and as part of our MILK issue), editor Isabela looks at how milk is used as a tool of racial and gender oppression by both extremist alt-right forces and discreet government policies. For part of this story, she sits down with Alice Yao, an associate professor with the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago, to discuss Yao’s work on the links between milk consumption and Western imperialism.
This podcast features writing and research by Isabela Vera; sound editing by Isabela Vera & Zoë Johnson, and original music by the Electric Muffin Research Kitchen. You can also listen to it on Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts.
SHOWNOTES
Transcript
Read the transcript of the show here.
Further readings
Freeman, A. (2013). The Unbearable Whiteness of Milk: Food Oppression and the USDA. UC Irvine Law Review, Vol. 3, p. 1251, 2013. https://ssrn.com/abstract=2338749
Stănescu, V. (2018). ‘White Power Milk’: Milk, Dietary Racism, and the ‘Alt-Right’, Animal Studies Journal, 7(2), 103-128. https://ro.uow.edu.au/asj/vol7/iss2/7
The Economist. (2015, March 28). No use crying: The ability to digest milk may explain how Europe got rich. https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2015/03/28/no-use-crying
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