‘Common indeed are the ethnographies in which poverty and inequality, the end result of a long process of impoverishment, are reduced to a form of cultural difference. We were sent to the field to look for different cultures. We saw oppression; it looked, well, different from our [...]
Read full post...It seems strange to say about the saddest day of the Jewish calendar, but I’m actually excited for Tisha B’Av tonight.
This year we have thrown ourselves headfirst into the exploration of everything in this world that doesn’t work quite like we say it does. We have explored the history that has expanded the difference [...]
Read full post...For the last four years, most of my food advocacy has been on a college campus. I worked in my community. I had a stake in the aesthetics, the educational priorities, the social and environmental footprint, and, of course, the food itself. No one questioned if I had a right to be there, voicing [...]
Read full post...We’d walked maybe a couple of miles under the ever-thickening gray clouds, bouncing slightly to the barely audible rhythm of the brass band that drifted from somewhere out in front of us and trying desperately to stay ahead of the mounted police or, better said, their horses—the horses that, unsympathetic to the slow pace [...]
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