[POLLEN] has been going great! It's been so fun and interesting talking through the complexities of these topics with you all. Check out our reading materials and notes from what you put in your mouth below. There is one episode left! Check out the reading/viewing list for that here.
Reading/viewing list:
- Youth Food Bill of Rights, Gather Film Clip, What you put in your mouth can change the world, The Man Who Relives Slave History Through Food (reading & watching, total time 20min)
- (Optional) The Honorable Harvest, How Black Culinary Historians Are Rewriting the History of American Food, Arrest of an imu organizer heats up debate over Hawaiian language rights, The (R)evolution of Indigenous Food Systems in North America, Pueblo Food Experience (CW: diet and weight)
- Check out the COLLABORATIVE PLAYLIST
Notes:
- "People associate food with identity. We eat this. This is us. They eat that. That is not us." - Michael Twitty
- Why are people reluctant to relate to their enslaved ancestors? Is it internalized shame or unaddressed grief? What do we lose when we lose these connections?
- People are the experts of their own bodies and experiences.
- How do we encourage ourselves and others to make good food choices without putting blame or the burden of choice on already marginalized people?
- What do we stand to gain from reconnecting with food spiritually, physically, and culturally?
- Indigenous cultures are translators of the land and water.
- Why does eating ancestral foods matter?