Race & Racism 11/23

Sistah Vegan Blog:
A Critical Race Feminist's Journey Through the 'Ethical Foodscape'...and Beyond

Oct 9, 2014

On Ferguson, Thug Kitchen, and Trayvon Martin: Intersections of [Post]Race-Consciousness, Food Justi

Source: http://cdn.hiconsumption.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Thug-Kitchen-Eat-Like-You-Give-a-Fck-Cookbook.jpg “On Ferguson, Thug...

Aug 20, 2014

Watching Slaughterhouse vs. Strawberry Harvest Videos: How Plant Harvesting is Often Romanticized as

In 2014, I was on one of my FB sites dedicated to anti-speciesism. Someone posted this photo below. Source: Facebook I do understand why...

Jul 15, 2014

Foraging in my neighborhood: is it a privilege?

I like to forage while I walk from home to get the kids from nursery school. I push them back up the hill in our double stroller and it...

Apr 15, 2014

When 'All you need is a good fuck' doesn't get you fired.

WARNING: May be triggering for those who are survivors of sexual assault and harassment. This is a short message, but it’s been something...

Mar 19, 2014

[Video] Scars of Suffering and Healing: A Black Feminist Perspective on Intersections of Oppression

This is the talk I gave at the Activist’s Table Conference, which took place at UC Berkeley on March 15, 2014. It was sponsored by the...

Oct 21, 2013

The Black Queer Experience is Not 'Our' Experience: Breeze Harper's New Social Fictio

It is official. I have signed a contract with Sense Publishers to publish the book Scars for 2014. Sense Publishers is the perfect press...

Sep 29, 2013

Diversity Rhetoric as Healing or Hurting? Decolonial Politics, Self-Care, and Structural Change in a

I gave a talk at Occidental College Sept 30 2013, 430-6pm. It was called Diversity Rhetoric as Healing or Hurting? Decolonial Politics,...

Sep 27, 2013

Revisioning Food Sovereignty: "Trayvon Martin, PETA, and the Packaging of Neoliberal Whiteness&

On September 25, 2013 I gave a lecture at Scripps College in Ontario, California: “Trayvon Martin, PETA&The Packaging of Neoliberal...

Sep 24, 2013

"All racial identity is racist!": The Broken Record of White Post-Racial Utopian Fantasies

I must sound like a broken record by now. But, here I go. In 2005, I did a call for papers for contributions to the Sistah Vegan...

Sep 18, 2013

Engaging with the idea that interrogations of race, gender, and whiteness in veganism is not pointle

(Photo of Dr. A. Breeze Harper) The Sistah Vegan Web Conference took place on September 14, 2013. It was titled “Embodied and Critical...