Sink your teeth into our digital journal—a collection of dreams, notes, explorations, and meaning-making in the food culture ecosystem, authored by the Food Culture Collective team, curated & edited by Ada Cuadrado-Medina.
Blooming Into the Black Femme EcoVerse
"Into the Black Femme Ecoverse '' is a gathering of Black femme land stewards and healers who are coming together to channel, portal jump and femme-fest love. This juicy expression of love is a collective dreamscape that digs into the potential of what our love for Mother Earth and her love for us can accomplish in setting us free.
As we reflect in stillness & in movement, calling upon Mother Earth in our midst with openness and sincerity, in rage and anger, in grief and surrender, we are asking ourselves—what radical insights, wisdom, and lessons do we consequently learn and go on to impart to our fellow living beings? How is our liberation tied to the relationships we are cultivating with Mother Earth?
Afro-Feminist Lifeways are a Path to Black Freedom
This piece is an introduction to the forthcoming digital exhibit, Into the Black Femme EcoVerse, created and curated by Digital Culture Fellow, Ugoada Ikoro. She explores how fellow Black womxn in communities across the US today are reimagining their foodways through healing modalities rooted in their heritage and liberation work with the land.
We are Black femmes who honor the cycles of birth and death. We embrace the rhythm of our inner nature, embodying the timeless dance that connects us to all of life. Across generations, we’ve answered the call to nurture the roots of Sankofa—of our freedom, pleasure, and abundance. It continues through us, like threaded silkwebs. Each and everyday, we honor the lifeways that garner our tapestry of our homeward journeys to love, liberation, and Black feminist freedom.
Seed Liberation & Reciprocity this Harvest Season with a Decolonized Playlist for Hungry Ears
This week, as we gather with our beloveds in our homes, in our kitchens, and around our tables, we’re reflecting on how our relationships to food, land, and each other can feed us in truly deep ways beyond just our stomachs. Our stories about these relationships are both reflections of our values and powerful tools for bringing them to life. So this harvest season, we’re grounding in liberatory stories rooted in joy, care, and mutual belonging with the land, waters, and peoples that nourish us.
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Black Food, Love + Liberation
Black Food, Love & Liberation is an ongoing series curated by our Digital Culture Fellow, Ugoada Ikoro. Each week, Ugo captures stories of joy, beauty, community care, and thriving (beyond surviving) hidden beneath mainstream narratives shaping Black foodways and our relationships to the land.
Around the Table
Our Around The Table series features informal conversations between food workers, thought leaders, elders, organizers, and creatives about emergent insights in food culture. Together, we sink our teeth into the juicy stories, live questions, and critical conversations buzzing in food and culture spaces.
Postcards from 2050
We invited Food Culture Collective community members to imagine forward with us—to a future rooted in care and belonging. Where our food culture is defined by reciprocal relationships and is accountable to the land, water, and people to which we belong. Read their postcards from the future here.
In the Test Kitchen
Dig into this collection of articles and think pieces written by Food Culture Collective staff, community members, and friends, focused on the question—how do we transform our shared food culture?
