Food literacy for all videos by year 2022
March 29th, 2022 In this Food Literacy for All session Raphael Wright, Alita Kelly, and Jason Bang discussed “Supplying Kimchi and Collards during a Global Pandemic”. Alita Kelly launched a grocery store in Grand Rapids that sources products first from Black, brown, indigenous, local or womxn-led farms and businesses. Raphael Wright is the founder of Urban Plug […]
March 22nd, 2022 In this Food Literacy for All session, Savala Nolan discussed “Why Fatphobia? Understanding the Roots and Uses of Anti-fat Bias”. Savala Nolan discusses how Fatphobia (or anti-fat bias) is widespread and has deep roots in the United States–but it isn’t inevitable or innate. It is learned, and it is particular to specific
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March 15th, 2022 In this Food Literacy for All session, Malik Yakini discussed “Building Black Food Sovereignty: An Update”. Malik Yakini is a co-founder and executive director of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network, which aims to combat food insecurity and cultivate food sovereignty in Detroit’s Black community. The organization has operated the city’s
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March 8th, 2022 In this Food Literacy for All session, Deanna Belleny Lewis discussed “Cultivating a Food System Grounded in Equity: The Role of Healthcare and Healthcare Providers”. This session explores the intersections of public health nutrition, health equity, and weight stigma. Deanna defines and discusses the importance of cultural humility and developing identity awareness
February 22nd, 2022 Dr. Hi’ilei Hobart is the author of Cooling the Tropics: Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment (forthcoming). She is a Professor at the University of Texas at Austin and examines the intersections of temperature, taste, and settler colonialism in Oceania. Dr. Hobart is interested in how personal and political investments in coldness facilitate
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February 15th, 2022 In this Food Literacy for All session, Priya Fielding-Singh discusses “How the Other Half Eats: the Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America”. Inequality in America manifests in many ways, but perhaps nowhere more than in how we eat. In this virtual presentation, sociologist and ethnographer Priya Fielding-Singh draws on her
February 8th, 2022 In this Food Literacy for All session, Dr. Marcus Coleman and Angela Chalk discuss “Beginning Farmers, Environment, and Feeding Community”. Angela Chalk is the Executive Director of Healthy Community Services in New Orleans, an organization that helps residents grow their understanding about how coastal land loss and flood risk impacts communities. She
February 1st, 2022 In this Food Literacy for All session, Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford explores the deleterious impact of weight bias on the impact on the health outcomes of the population. She ascertains how health professionals harbor implicit and explicit bias and evaluates strategies that medical organizations have taken to fight weight bias. Register to
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January 25th, 2022 Marilyn Wann and Chef Fresh Roberson invite people to notice anti-fat beliefs and weight hierarchy and then imagine divesting from those oppressive systems. What if thinner ≠ better? What if weight ≠ health? What if people of all sizes could feel at home in our bodies and fully welcome in society? Register
January 18th, 2022 Instagram posts. TikToks. Food TV shows. Cookbooks written for men. Dude food. Wheaties, protein shakes, and electrolyte-enhanced waters. How do these various foods and media shape who we are and think we can be, how we want to feel, and what we hope to look like? Are they good for us, or
