Nourishing resistance : stories of food, protest, and mutual aid / edited by Wren Awry.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Awry, Wren, editor.

Milstein, Cindy, writer of foreword.

ProQuest ebook central

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food--Political aspects.

Food.

Food--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 170 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oakland, CA : PM Press, [2023]

Biography/History:

Wren Awry is a writer, editor, and archivist whose work ranges from researching and writing about the role of food in labor strikes, mutual aid projects, and revolt to helping with community dinners at their local, collectively run social center. Cindy Barukh Milstein, a diasporic queer Jewish anarchist, author of Paths toward Utopia: Graphic Explorations of Everyday Anarchism and Anarchism and Its Aspirations, and editor of anthologies such as Rebellious Mourning: The Collective Work of Grief, Deciding for Ourselves: The Promise of Direct Democracy, and There Is Nothing So Whole as a Broken Heart: Mending the World as Jewish Anarchists.

Contents:

Foreword / Cindy Barukh Milstein

Introduction / Wren Awry

On feeding others as an act of resistance / an interview with Cheshire Li

Cooking revolutions in the popular pot / Virginia Tognola

The contentious biryani : Rice, nation, and dissent / Paridhi Gupta

La Morada : When a restaurant is a sanctuary / Alyshia Gálvez

The way it could be : Toward food sovereignty and against state dependence / Luz Cruz

The Anishinabeg's call to protect the moose / Laurence Desmarais

On farming as a practice of abundance and liberation / an interview with mayam

"Remaking the commons" : A history of eating in public / Gaye Chan and Nandita Sharma

From "building the bases for a different life : an interview with Hong Kong Anarchists Black Window" / Lausan Collective and Black Window

The wine bottle's intrinsic blight / Lisa Strid

Plastic / Katie Tastrom

On fat activism and the power of being an outsider / an interview with Virgie Tovar

Everywhere that feeling lived : Making a queer food podcast / Nico Wisler

Queer potlucks offer food for capitalist critique and collective action / Lindsey Danis

The hearth of revolution / Shayontoni Rhea Ghosh

Rehearsing for rebellion : On "Bella Ciao" and Italy's radical rice weeders / Alessandra Bergamin

On the food of the West Virginia mine wars / an interview with Mike Costello

Notes on utopian failure in the commune kitchens / Madeline Lane-McKinley

Abundance and other lessons on the Lower East Side / Wren Awry

Uthando Luvunwa Apha : A postcapitalist love story / te'sheron courtney

Are you a kindergarden abolitionist? A list of what's possible in the next economy / sumi dutta

Seeds planted by Nana Tota / Nelda Ruiz.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: NOURISHING RESISTANCE.

ISBN:

9781629639963

1629639966

Publisher Number:

99995919691

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.