Every 10 years—say, the years we turn 30, 40, 50, and 60—we all go back to school for a year.
How can food system activists depict the unphotogenic, the mundane-but-important?
We believe that a mother is automatically and naturally a multitasker, that once she has a child she will never again devote herself fully to any pursuit other than mothering.
This past weekend some friends came over for a late Sunday lunch. It was a cold, windy early March day, with a blizzard in the forecast.
In the department of "problems we thought we solved decades ago," deforestation of the Amazon rainforest, which was a major target of environmental movements in years past, has radically increased since 2015.
How do we create dialog among people who hold radically different political positions? What rhetoric can I use to emphasize the shared interests of groups that don't currently have much to do with one another? How do we engage productively with hatred, fear, and rage?
I'm taking inspiration today from Nourish | Resist, a newly formed collective of food-industry people of color using food spaces to transform and mobilize communities.