All the Small Drawings

Artist of Mexican descent in SoCal, working in the areas of painting + drawing, ceramics, and contemporary Latin American art history. Healer, Brujx, Gardener, Trans femme. she/her

[luntfontanne]

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

The Ultimate List of Black Owned Farms & Food Gardens

LISTS OF BLACK-OWNED FOOD BUSINESSES

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

A Reading List For Learning About Anti-Black Racism and Food

A Black History Month Reading List Centered Around Food and Farming

47 Food Studies Books, Not Just for Black History Month

A Food Justice Reading List

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Ducks swimming through a path in an icy river 

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[ezermeno]

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[ezermeno]

What I miss : p ?

[arte-historiaa-moved]

perro de luna - rufino tamayo (mexican-zapotec b. 1899-1991) 

1973

[ezermeno]

Since I've been gone. 2018.

[wholesomethemedmemes]

Just in case you were feeling discouraged.

[cosmic-sweat]

la chillóna /// a look inspired by @ezermeno’s story about a deity based on me ❤ an excerpt: “la chillóna is the patron goddess of poetry & the literary arts, she is said to have sprung the world into existence by the shedding of tears that became our rivers & mountains. they are often portrayed as a far brown femme clad in white lace & flowers with rosy red lips…”

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[cosmic-sweat]

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[ezermeno]

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[quotemadness]

I fall in love with myself, and I want someone to share it with me. And I want someone to share me, with me.

Eartha Kitt (via quotemadness)

[enfranchisement]

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[ezermeno]

I'm venturing into the world. Wish me luck.

[profeminist]

11-year-old girl launches #1000BlackGirlBooks

Campaign collects books in the name of social action

“In the past year, Philadelphia native Marley Dias has successfully written a proposal for (and received) a Disney Friends for Changegrant, served food to orphans in Ghana and recently launched a book club.

“I’m hoping to show that other girls can do this as well,” Dias told PhillyVoice. “I used the resources I was given, and I want people to pass that down and use the things they’re given to create more social action projects – and do it just for fun, and not make it feel like a chore.”

Dias’ latest social action project is the ”#1000BlackGirlBooks" book drive. Frustrated with many of the books she’s assigned in school, she confessed to her mother during dinner one night that she was unhappy with how monochromatic so many stories felt.

“I told her I was sick of reading about white boys and dogs,” Dias said, pointing specifically to “Where the Red Fern Grows” and the “Shiloh” series. “‘What are you going to do about it?’ [my mom] asked. And I told her I was going to start a book drive, and a specific book drive, where black girls are the main characters in the book and not background characters or minor characters.”

So far, she said, she’s collected about 400 books – nearly halfway to her goal of 1,000 by Feb. 1. The project is part of an annual social action effort she makes as part of the Philadelphia-founded GrassROOTS Community Foundation Super Camp for young girls, designed to empower and improve the health of ‘impoverished’ girls middle-school-aged and younger. Dias’ mother, Janice, cofounded the organization seven years ago with lead MC of The Roots, Tariq Trotter (aka, Black Thought).

Janice, who grew up in Jamaica, calls watching her daughter grow up with such an investment in giving back a surreal experience. She further explained that her daughter’s ”#1000BlackGirlBooks" project has been eye-opening even for her.

The two just wrapped up a book drive at Lingelbach Elementary School in Germantown but are still on their way to hitting the 1,000-book mark. By the end of the drive, they’ll put together a reference guide that compiles the book titles, authors and age groups. Books collected will be donated to a low-resources library in St. Mary, Jamaica, where Janice grew up – in the spirit of giving back to their roots.”

Read the full piece here

GO MARLEY!  FOLKS, IF YOU ARE ABLE TO HELP HER OUT: Book donations can be sent to 59 Main St., West Orange, N.J., 07052, Office 322.

You may be thinking “it will take some effort and $ to wrap and send a book though.” IS IT WORTH IT AND SHOULD YOU DO IT? 

Am I going to send a few books myself? YES. If she gets more than 1,000 books that’s even better, no problem!

#1000BlackGirlBooks #BlackGirlsRock 

[devotedtodiversityinart]

Boosting this excellent initiative! - jt

[ezermeno]

I feel some kind of way about mental illness running in my family. In a way I want to help guide them because I’ve had the most experience identifying and treating my own…but I just wish I were more equipped, you know.. Like, obviously I’m not a professional but I feel like given all my exp I should be able to do more : / idk…I hope I can at least help them feel more at ease and like they’re not alone in all of this.

[cartnsncreal]

#Flint #WhiteSupremacy

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