dialogues about the intersection of race, culture and food from the folks who make change happen!















Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Bringin' Back the Love

How do we bring the love back to our communities? As women of color, we have almost been conditioned to compete with each other over men, hair, style, etc. At the same time, rely on one another for survival to to co-parent our children.

Can this good food movement begin to mend our hearts toward one another?

We manifest the bad stuff with the 'good hair' - 'bad hair' thing and we heal ourselves with emerging groups, like Sisters Grow, started by Farmer Micheline Brown, who craved a space for women from the African Diaspora to come together and share, support and I think heal.

Through our reclaimation of our food soveriegnty we really are also re-integrating our cultures and relations with one another, as we heal our food system and move back toward our original soul foods, lots of greens, fresh fruits and root starches... that are not overly cooked, and grease-ified.

Women, we can heal our selves and our communities, ultimately the world.

Food can be our medicine or our poison.... It never ceases to amaze me that this movement continues to touch on so many unexpected areas.

How can you bring the love today?

Ase-O!

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