Womyn and transfolk in APOC are putting a zine together that focuses on decolonizing our diets. Food is political; what we eat and how we eat affects land, animals and us.  It is also a tool that can be used for struggles. That being said here’s what we are looking for:

Confessions, recipes, testimonials, images, dilemmas, struggles and poems about food and health.
500-1,000 words
No later than March 7, 2009
Email to anixtla@yahoo.com
You must identify as a person of color.
This project is open to womyn and transfolk , but we are also looking for men to contribute through submissions.

Some of the Topics that we are looking for are listed below. They are meant to be used as a guide but definitely not inclusive so please feel free to expand and express:

1. Food and Sexism: Attitudes to consuming meat and possessing female bodies.
2. Commodification and the selling of traditional indigenous diets such as “super exotic foods”
3. Health and fast food’s genocide of people of color
4. Healthy multi-cultural recipes
5. Food traveling: local vs non local, foods that are mistaken as indigenous to a region and a people.
6. Diets people eat influenced by colonization and imperialism. Idea that western diet is superior.
7. Men’s relationship to food and their division of labor
8. Nurturing and taking care of our bodies.
9. Vegan diets and the way dairy and meat is consumed.

Recipes or entries do not need to be strictly vegetarian, but since this is about decolonizing our diets we are trying to keep it healthy and as harm free as possible. We understand that not everyone is ready to be vegetarian so we welcome recipes that include healthier ways to consume meat and dairy.

Anarchist womyn and transfolks of color, come be part of the editorial collective!! email at anixtla@yahoo.com for next meeting info.

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