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Our BODY issue is coming! We're calling for pitches on all things related to food, flesh, and feelings. Slide into our inboxes at [email protected] by June 12, midnight CEST.
More info in the CfP below 👇
Pitch us by June 12, 2024
This week from issue #07 MEAT, we bring you a story by Mwinji Nakamba Siame, which uses cultures of meat production and consumption in Namwanga communities in Zambia to illuminate how power is negotiated between genders more broadly. Blending personal narrative, history, and philosophy, Mwinji explores how Western feminist frameworks struggle to capture the complex interactions between women, animals, and meat in the Global South.
Read it now on our Substack.
Reflecting on care, justice, and relationality at ORFC 2023
Exciting update! We're thrilled to announce our collaboration with two incredible women-led organizations, and .global, for the 10th U.S.-ASEAN Women's Leadership Academy for YSEALI. This year's Academy will nurture the leadership of over 60 young women addressing food insecurity in Southeast Asia, and we couldn't be prouder to partner with these impactful organizations.
Meet our collaborators:
🌾 AGREA: An innovative, for-purpose, sustainable agri-business dedicated to alleviating poverty and hunger in farming and fishing communities. Leveraging their subject expertise and regional networks, AGREA will lead sessions featuring experts across the food value chain, delving into intersectional issues of gender and food security.
🙋🏻‍♀️ Wedu: An NGO committed to closing the gender leadership gap in Asia. Wedu has nurtured the leadership development of women changemakers through training, mentorship, and education funding for over a decade. Wedu will draw on its extensive expertise in women's leadership as the main implementing partner for this programme.
This week’s SEA offering is a short documentary (our first-ever video) on the impacts of climate change and overfishing on girls living along Lake Malawi. The clip, was filmed and produced by the team behind the fantastic documentary, - and . It tells the story of F***y, a young girl who dreams of one day becoming a nurse.
Despite the ethical and environmental questions around fishing, coastal food cultures centred on fish, mollusks, and crustaceans provide a connection to place and a sense of identity. But what culinary possibilities emerge when we reconceptualize “seafood”?
🌊 This week from our SEA issue, Elise Schloff ( ), brings us her personal reflections on eating from the sea and a unique recipe 🍮
If you’re anything like us, reading ’s brilliant piece in our CITY issue made you want to make marmalade. 🍊 This week, paid subscribers get access to the recipe! We hope you will use this recipe to build some marmalade-related memories of your own, as you reflect on Theo’s insights about the links between food, identity, colonial histories, and gendered taste.
(If you’re not yet a paid subscriber, please consider supporting us if you can! ❤️)
🏙 We are kicking off our CITY issue with Sohel Sarkar's examination of the gender, caste and class-based anxieties surrounding street food in India.
In this evocative piece, Sohel traces street food’s cultural history and shows how prohibitive injunctions against street food are used to control women’s access to public space. But despite its prohibitive underpinnings, or perhaps because of it, she argues, street food can also be a site of subversion and resistance.
This piece is sure to make you think — and make you hungry!
đź“– https://feministfoodjournal.substack.com/respectable-lives-and-transgressive
In the final piece from our EARTH issue, FFJ co-founding editor Zoë Johnson had the honour of speaking with Melanie Allen and amanda david () about their work with the incredible . They cover power in our food systems, the complexities of cultivating land in a capitalist settler-colonial context, and much more. 🎧 Listen now on Substack or wherever you get your podcasts. https://feministfoodjournal.substack.com/p/building-power-with-black-farmer-fund-podcast
Did you know, paid subscribers get access to audio versions of many of our pieces? Treat yourself to some quality content this weekend: For a limited time, get 20% off annual subscriptions to FFJ to take advantage of these audio perks!
https://feministfoodjournal.substack.com/weekendaudio
Have you read Alice Ragland’s piece, “More Radical Than It May Seem: Reclaiming ancestral bonds through herbalism and farming”?
Published on Tuesday as part of our EARTH issue, it is a must read for anyone interested in learning about the connections and disconnections of slavery, the agricultural system, and Black resistance in the US. Read and listen now 👇
đź“–https://feministfoodjournal.substack.com/p/more-radical-than-it-may-seem
🎧https://feministfoodjournal.substack.com/p/more-radical-than-it-may-seem-audio
"When I cultivate sage and basil from my garden I’m reminded of the generations of women before me who did the same," writes Alice Ragland in the latest piece from our EARTH issue.🪴
In this powerful essay, Alice grapples with her family's history of enslavement and discusses how, through food and herbalism, she is connecting to her ancestors, using their tools of resistance to continue the fight against ongoing systemic racism in the United States.
đź“– Read it now: https://feministfoodjournal.substack.com/more-radical-than-it-may-seem
🎧 Paid subscribers can also listen to an audio version of the piece, read by Alice: https://feministfoodjournal.substack.com/more-radical-than-it-may-seem-audio
🌏 Check out the whole EARTH issue here: https://feministfoodjournal.substack.com/s/issue-04-earth
We're thrilled to announce the publication of our third piece as part of FFJ's EARTH issue 🌎 MarĂa Villalpando brings us a story about tortilleras — a name given to women devoted to the making and selling of tortillas — and their central role in preserving time-honoured ways of growing, cooking, and eating maize in rural Mexico.
Head over to our Substack to read MarĂa’s exploration of the complex relationships between food sovereignty, gender, and fuelwood use in the ancestral home of what has now become the world’s largest food crop. 🌽
*Photo Credits: (1 & 3) and Adrain Orozco (2)
📣 Calling all writers, urbanites, urbanists, urban farmers, feeders, thinkers, and feminist city aficionados. Pitches are open for our CITY issue! 🌆 We are looking for stories that explore food, gender/feminism, and cities in all their intensity, inequality, diversity, and contradictions.
Have a story idea or know someone else who might? Read and share our concept note and pitch guidelines here: https://feministfoodjournal.substack.com/p/pitches-are-open-for-our-city-issue
We cannot wait to read your story ideas! Please send them to [email protected] by midnight CET on February 23.
Pitch us by February 23, 2023
Le***an Land — our second EARTH piece. McKenzie Schwark looks at how we can see the modern TikTok trend as a digital manifestation of a decades-old movement by q***r women to escape the heteronormative patriarchy by building rural communes. What does it mean for these utopias to move online at a time when q***r communities in the US are under renewed attack?
Q***r utopias, real and imagined
We are so excited to share the first piece from our EARTH issue with you next week — coming Tuesday, January 17th. 🌍
EARTH is our fourth issue and with it, we're shifting to a staggered publishing model. In a nutshell, our essays will now be coming to your inbox one at a time, until the whole issue has been released. We hope it will suit your rhythms and reading pattern, and can't wait to hear what you think.
You can subscribe and listen on our Substack 🎧
And just like that, it's 2023. What are we looking forward to this year? For Isabela, it's attending the : "It’s our first time participating in a conference on behalf of FFJ."
Read more in our latest newsletter: https://feministfoodjournal.substack.com/p/ffj-reflects
You can also visit our ORFC exhibitor page: https://orfc.org.uk/exhibitor/feminist-food-journal/
Did you know that our and issues include audio stories?
Our editors Zoë and Isabela sit down with some amazing academics to learn more about their work on the politics of food.
1. 🎧 There's a War on Fatness. Zoë speaks to Alanna Higgins and Jennifer Brady, two scholars working at the intersection of food studies and fat studies. They discuss the war on “obesity”, its roots, its manifestations in the food movement, and their hopes for fat food justice in the future.
2. 🎧 On the "Unbearable Whiteness" of Milk. Isabela speaks with Alice Yao, an associate professor with the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago, to discuss Yao’s work on the links between milk consumption and Western imperialism.
You can listen to FFJ's audio stories on our Substack, as well as on Apple and Google podcasts. 👂👂🏽👂🏿
Latkes, chickpea confit, wellington, flatkaka and pierogi are some of the recipes featured in the FFJ holiday newsletter sent out to our paid subscribers this week.
These are some of our favourite recipes for this festive time of year, and we offer reflections on what these dishes mean to us. Hope you enjoy digging in 🍴
We were so thrilled to learn that Feminist food journal made 22' award for design this year 🪩
It was the perfect opportunity for us to create this long-overdue appreciation post for our very own , who does all the illustrations herself. We’ve picked out some of our favourites from the three issues we published this year. They’ve uplifted and encapsulated the stories we share in our journal and FFJ wouldn’t be the same without them. Do you have any favourites? Let us know!
You can find these and plenty more with their accompanying stories on our Substack ✨
Btw - if you’re a big fan of the oyster or magicians with cheese, you can order one as a card with our FFJ for a Friend package, still available until after the holidays!
Mariam Adetona's Chicken, Chips, and Teargas explains how "protest food" proved key to supporting the popular movement against Nigeria's infamous Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), with a group of young Nigerian feminists as a driving force.
In our WAR issue, Rachel's Hobley's
essay House of Meat follows three generations of
women living under occupation in Bethlehem. They
embody the principles of sumud (steadfastness), a
concept which encapsulates the essence of the
Palestinian story, by making decisions about the
kitchen, preserving culinary knowledge and
maintaining familial honour through exceptional
cooking.
Subscribe and listen to Rachel's reflection on her
piece on our Substack.
As the year ends, we're revisiting some of our essays from WAR and MILK.
We loved this piece from our WAR issue, "Für Später", where Lisa Gow reflects on how her grandmother, who lived through a world war and several dictatorships, used food to tie together her past and place. Memories of hunger became lifelong lessons in thrift that she passed down through generations, and she dedicated her cooking to the Central and Eastern European foods she knew.
Paid subscribers can also listen to Lisa reflect on her piece in her own words.
Food is a crucial subject all over the world. It's at the center of our lives, and food has everything to do with gender. But there is a gap between feminist and food media, which leaves out important
It was a long, sweaty summer in the Northern Hemisphere, but we aren’t here to cool you down. Our S*X issue is hot off the press and ready to land with a sizzle in your inbox. Read our full Letter from the Editors below.
Our S*X issue is here
Mark your calendars: our S*X issue is dropping on Monday, October 17. It was worth the wait, we promise.
Pitches are open for our EARTH issue, focused on gender and all things related to our earth home: climate change, farming, foraging, and more. Check out our full concept note on Substack, and get in touch with your pitch by September 8th, midnight CEST, at [email protected]
đź”—https://feministfoodjournal.substack.com/p/write-for-our-earth-issue
From our issue: In Bethlehem, the tomato tells of steadfast resistance. Read 'House of Meat' by Rachel Hobley here: https://feministfoodjournal.substack.com/p/house-of-meat?s=w
In Bethlehem, the tomato tells of steadfast resistance
What are we taking away from our WAR issue? The resiliency of the human spirit and the myriad ways in which food nourishes it. During an editing season when reading the news brought much despair, our WAR stories filled us with a cautious sense of hope. We hope they will do the same for you! Read them at https://feministfoodjournal.substack.com/s/issue-02-war
Our WAR issue is here! It explores the gendered dimensions of food in times of conflict, with stories of ingenuity and resilience coming everywhere from Kashmir to occupied Paris in World War II. You won’t want to miss it. Read and listen to it now on our Substack.
https://feministfoodjournal.substack.com/p/our-war-issue-is-here?s=w
The WAR issue
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Exciting update! We're thrilled to announce our collaboration with two incredible women-led organizations, @agreaphl and @wedu.global, for the 10th U.S.-ASEAN Women's Leadership Academy for YSEALI. This year's Academy will nurture the leadership of over 60 young women addressing food insecurity in Southeast Asia, and we couldn't be prouder to partner with these impactful organizations. Meet our collaborators: 🌾 AGREA: An innovative, for-purpose, sustainable agri-business dedicated to alleviating poverty and hunger in farming and fishing communities. Leveraging their subject expertise and regional networks, AGREA will lead sessions featuring experts across the food value chain, delving into intersectional issues of gender and food security. 🙋🏻‍♀️ Wedu: An NGO committed to closing the gender leadership gap in Asia. Wedu has nurtured the leadership development of women changemakers through training, mentorship, and education funding for over a decade. Wedu will draw on its extensive expertise in women's leadership as the main implementing partner for this programme. #YSEALIWLA2024 #WomenFeedTheFuture
Did you know, paid subscribers get access to audio versions of many of our pieces? Treat yourself to some quality content this weekend: For a limited time, get 20% off annual subscriptions to FFJ to take advantage of these audio perks! https://feministfoodjournal.substack.com/weekendaudio
Have you read Alice Ragland’s piece, “More Radical Than It May Seem: Reclaiming ancestral bonds through herbalism and farming”? Published on Tuesday as part of our EARTH issue, it is a must read for anyone interested in learning about the connections and disconnections of slavery, the agricultural system, and Black resistance in the US. Read and listen now 👇 📖https://feministfoodjournal.substack.com/p/more-radical-than-it-may-seem 🎧https://feministfoodjournal.substack.com/p/more-radical-than-it-may-seem-audio
Our first audio story from EARTH is live 🌍 In ḥačatakma c̓awaak (Everything is interconnected), Isabela sits down with Dr. Charlotte Coté to discuss her new book 'A Drum in One Hand, a Sockeye in the Other'. They cover Indigenous food sovereignty, gender, social media, veganism, language, and more — a must-listen for anyone interested in decolonized approaches to thinking about land and food.
Looking to give differently this holiday season? We've got you covered with FFJ for a Friend, a package of three low-carbon gifts for a friend, a family member, or yourself. Part physical, part digital, offering both instant gratification and something to look forward to in the New Year, FFJ for a Friend is the perfect way to give differently this holiday season. In addition to delighting your recipient, you'll be supporting independent, women-led media, and helping us to bring you MILK & three more issues we have planned for next year. Shop 👉 www.feministfoodjournal.com/support
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