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DOING NOTHING IS NOT SUSTAINABLE . . .
because when we destroy others, we destroy ourselves.
Monique Melton makes the startling point that when White people take action only at times of great violence toward Black people, we are relying on Black suffering and death to motivate us.
Doing nothing except when the violence hits close to home, or is more devastating than usual, is not sustainable. If the only doctor you could visit was one in the emergency room, and you had to have life-threatening wounds to be admitted, would you be satisfied? Would you feel safe?
Doing nothing because the problems feel too large or overwhelming is not sustainable - no one escapes the toll that racism takes on humanity.
If you are only paying attention when you have the time, when you have the money, when you have the space, when it feels the worst, when you're most uncomfortable...then you are caught in the cycle of violence that furthers the pain and suffering of Black people.
Nothing any one of us can do will ever be 'enough'. The question of 'enough' is a collective question. The collective is made up of you and me.
In a newsletter last week, Desiree Adaway wrote, "I love us more than I hate these systems of oppression."
Don't do nothing. Don't do it all yourself. Don't strive for 'enough'.
Do something. Start today. Don't stop.
In community,
Dor + Tay
photo of dried Raja Mircha (aka Ghost Chili) piled high at Dimapur Market by Devraj Chaliha for GFJ Stories
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tidbits...
resources on anti-racism, environmentalism and food culture AKA stuff we're reading / listening to / watching / noticing / thinking about / captivated by this Tuesday . . .
"Far from being passive victims, women have always resisted, and they have always been violently repressed by those defending capitalism." - Thea Walmsley for A Growing Culture shines a light on the business of gender equality in agriculture.
Eric Kim's chamomile tea cake with strawberry icing is worth an annual subscription to the NYTimes.
"It’s never the grandma who gets the first book deal" - the NYTimes covers 89-year old Emily Meggett's cookbook, Gullah Geechee Home Cooking, out now.
Shalom & Polepole on achieving balance between work and home life.
Since December 2019, the Not Our Farm project has collected and shared stories from over 80 workers on farms not their own in the United States and Canada. Read their stories and catch up on the first (of many, we hope) Not Our Farm newsletters.
From the Farmers Market Coalition, the Anti-Racist Farmers Market Toolkit is here.
How one chef's cancer treatment transformed into a nonprofit to support Atlanta food workers' during times of injury or instability: read The Bitter Southerner's story on Atlanta restaurant Staplehouse and nonprofit Giving Kitchen.
We did not know of Urvashi Vaid's work before her death this week, but now we will never forget her contributions to the world.
View and share this free guide to How to Write a More Equitable Job Post, and stay tuned for new resources to deepen this work.
"We have to preserve our individuality, the Indigenous quality of our food because it is only then would people come to know about our culture and tradition." Read the latest GFJ Story on Axone, or Akhuni, a fermented soya bean paste that illuminates the politics of translating 'stinky' foods to unaccustomed palates. Words by Makepeace Sitlhou, photos by Devraj Chaliha.
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