urbanfoodie

*20-something, filipina american urbanite
(Minneapolis via NYC, SF, & the Chicagoland area)
*creator, consumer, and all-around enthusiast of food
Aug 10
driftlessinthecity: brownroundboi: CALL for participants Recipes for the People: Documentary seeking contributorsSummer 2011    (please circulate widely)  Looking for QTPGNCTSPOCs and of mixed ancestry passionate about food and social change!  (Transgender, Bisexual, Lesbian, Gay, Queer, Gender Non-Conforming, Two-Spirit, People of Color, Mixed Ancestry) Due to lack of financial and physical access, participants must be located in the NYC area! From colonizers & grandmothers To body image & food deserts Of health & history For blessings & community Sharing our tables & stories Recipes for the People COMING SOON A people of color’s history of food We’re looking for new contributors to work with    Recipes for the People (RFP). If you care about food, how it shifts you, your communities, and this world, consider a contribution. If you grow food, passionately make food, write about food, and if food is intrinsically part of your collective/political/artistic/spiritual practice, part of a liberation process, then we would love to talk with you!    Recipes for the People (RFP) is in the process of working on a documentary that focuses on POC/native/two-spirit/mixed mostly* queer ans trans people, and their relationship to food—- making, growing, eating, culture, action.   we will be shooting end of AUGUST 2011- SEPT 2011. if you or someone you know is interested, please have them email: recipesforthepeople@gmail.com   or call: (773) 814-6503 no later than 8/22/2011. Priority will be for QTGNCTSPOC people who understand the intersections of ability, race, sexuality, size, class, gender, religious/spiritual affiliation, nation of origin, age, citizenship status, and many other identities. I’d love to see some friends in here so reblog, get involved if you fall within the community defined.

driftlessinthecity:

brownroundboi:

CALL for participants 
Recipes for the People: Documentary seeking contributors
Summer 2011   

(please circulate widely)
 

Looking for QTPGNCTSPOCs and of mixed ancestry passionate about food and social change!  (Transgender, Bisexual, Lesbian, Gay, Queer, Gender Non-Conforming, Two-Spirit, People of Color, Mixed Ancestry) Due to lack of financial and physical access, participants must be located in the NYC area!


From colonizers & grandmothers
To body image & food deserts
Of health & history
For blessings & community
Sharing our tables & stories Recipes for the People
COMING SOON A people of color’s history of food



We’re looking for new contributors to work with    Recipes for the People (RFP). If you care about food, how it shifts you, your communities, and this world, consider a contribution. If you grow food, passionately make food, write about food, and if food is intrinsically part of your collective/political/artistic/spiritual practice, part of a liberation process, then we would love to talk with you!
  
 Recipes for the People (RFP) is in the process of working on a documentary that focuses on POC/native/two-spirit/mixed mostly* queer ans trans people, and their relationship to food—- making, growing, eating, culture, action.
 

we will be shooting end of AUGUST 2011- SEPT 2011. if you or someone you know is interested, please have them email: recipesforthepeople@gmail.com   or call: (773) 814-6503 no later than 8/22/2011.

Priority will be for QTGNCTSPOC people who understand the intersections of ability, race, sexuality, size, class, gender, religious/spiritual affiliation, nation of origin, age, citizenship status, and many other identities.

I’d love to see some friends in here so reblog, get involved if you fall within the community defined.

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Jul 16

Racism by Any Other Name Smells Just as Rotten

It was my first day of kindergarten. A shy and precociously anxious four-year-old, I looked around at the other kids and wondered whether any of them would want to play with me during recess. It was a day of many firsts, as I didn’t go to pre-school or daycare like other kids. For the first time in my life, I had a space all my own there in my little desk with its cubby  – my name, neatly printed on a sign in the shape of a yellow No. 2 pencil, confirmed that. Stephanie Pituc. (I still feel that same sense of pride when I see my name in print).

I sat down at my desk, along with the other kids, and waited to see what would happen next. Ms. Todaro, a White woman with short curly blond hair, rosy cheeks, and the warm demeanor you expect from a kindergarten teacher, greeted us and said that she would be taking attendance. As she went down the roll and got closer and closer to the “P’s,” my heart beat loudly in my chest as I feared that somehow I would mess up this first test of my competence.

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