Best of 2016: Top 10 Sistah Vegan Blog Posts From the Past Year
2016 is coming to a close. During this time of year, I publish the top 10 Sistah Vegan blog posts from the last year. I hope you enjoyed this past year’s articles, pictures, and videos. Please consider donating to the Sistah Vegan Project through Patreon to keep us going strong and fund our two book projects. Enjoy the recap.
Top 10 of 2016
‘LITTLE RACIST’ PEBBLES: WHEN YOUR 5 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER IS ASHAMED OF HER AFRO
THE [WHITE SAVIOR] ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM: ALLY THEATER, SAVIOR COMPLEX, AND SPEAKING FOR ‘THE OTHER’
WEARING A HOODIE AND GOING VEGAN ARE ‘EASY AS PIE’?: WHAT TYPE OF SUPPORT ARE YOU REALLY ASKING FOR?
“SUSPICIOUS” [BLACK] PERSON MOVING IN? OR MAYBE THEY TREAT EVERYONE THAT WAY?
[VIDEO] UPROOTING WHITE FRAGILITY: INTERSECTIONAL ANTI-RACISM IN THE ‘POST-RACIAL’ ETHICAL FOODSCAPE
“VEGANISM SHOULD ALWAYS ‘TRUMP’ INTERSECTIONALITY: MAKE VEGANISM GREAT [AND WHITE] AGAIN!”
“HOW COULD ‘WE’ LET TRUMP HAPPEN?” DON’T INCLUDE [BLACK] ME IN YOUR [WHITE] ‘WE’]
FANON’S TEARS, OCTAVIA’S HOPE: THE ONGOING TRAUMA OF RACIALIZED VIOLENCE AND STRATEGIC IGNORANCE
(Credit: Pax Ahimsa Gethen 2016)
Dr. A. Breeze Harper is a senior diversity and inclusion strategist for Critical Diversity Solutions, a seasoned speaker, and author of books and articles related to critical race feminism, intersectional anti-racism, and ethical consumption. As a writer, she is best known as the creator and editor of the groundbreaking anthology Sistah Vegan: Black Female Vegans Speak on Food, Identity, Health and Society (Lantern Books 2010). Dr. Harper has been invited to deliver many keynote addresses and lectures at universities and conferences throughout North America. In 2015, her lecture circuit focused on the analysis of food and whiteness in her book Scars and on “Gs Up Hoes Down:” Black Masculinity, Veganism, and Ethical Consumption (The Remix)which explored how key Black vegan men use hip-hop methods to create “race-conscious” and decolonizing approaches to vegan philosophies. In 2016, she collaborated with Oakland’s FoodFirst’s Executive Director Dr. Eric Holt-Gimenez to write the backgrounder Dismantling Racism in the Food System, which kicked offFoodFirst’s series on systemic racism within the food system.
Dr. Harper is the founder of the Sistah Vegan Project which has put on several ground-breaking conferences with emphasis on intersection of racialized consciousness, anti-racism, and ethical consumption (i.e., veganism, animal rights, Fair Trade). Last year she organized the highly successful conference The Vegan Praxis of Black Lives Matter which can be downloaded.
Dr. Harper’s most recently published book, Scars: A Black Lesbian Experience in Rural White New England (Sense Publishers 2014) interrogates how systems of oppression and power impact the life of the only Black teenager living in an all white and working class rural New England town. Her current 2016 lecture circuit focuses on excerpts from her latest book in progress, Recipes for Racial Tension Headaches: A Critical Race Feminist’s Journey Through ‘Post-Racial’ Ethical Foodscape which will be released in 2017, along with the second Sistah Vegan project anthology The Praxis of Justice in an Era of Black Lives Matter. In tandem with these book projects, she is well-known for her talks and workshops about “Uprooting White Fragility in the Ethical Foodscape” and “Intersectional Anti-Racism Activism.”
In the spring of 2016, Dr. Harper was nominated as the Vice Presidential candidate for the Humane Party— the only vegan political party in the USA with focus on human and non-human animals.
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