1/1/2024 0 Comments Okra projectAccording to their website, “34% of Black trans people report living in extreme poverty. The Okra Project hires Black Trans chefs to prepare take away meals for those without housing, and to visit homes of those in need to cook meals. This is not a soup kitchen or a bread line. It is a foundation on which many other parts of people’s lives and identities are built. Stewart is making sure there’s equality and equity in Black Trans people’s diets. I am not part of this demographic so it can be easy for me to forget what a luxury it is to be able to assume certain aspects of my daily life such as meals. And so to have that kitchen be filled with someone who looks, loves, and lives like you, is a luxury and a joy”, says Ianne. “For Black people, in particular, the kitchen is such a place of family lineage. The Okra Project was founded in 2018 by Ianne Fields Stewart to serve healthy meals and fight hunger in the Black Trans Community. The Okra Project has been doing the essential work of supporting their vulnerable community since before the pandemic. This is a principle that is shared in our industry by many but in particular there is one group changing the lives of people in need. Community is something I’ve learned at HMG+, and I know is one of their core principles. Whether it’s reaching out to family, friends, or neighbors, or it’s supporting your local food banks, religious organization, or mutual aid group, all of it helps. Writers at the New York Times share recommendations for artworks-public memorials, books, film-that challenge racism.Īnd the Daily Shout-Out goes to Knopf and Alice Quinn for their work editing Together in a Sudden Strangeness: America’s Poets Respond to the Pandemic, a new anthology due out on Tuesday.The healthiest way to deal with this pandemic is to connect with your sense of community. Rocío Cobo-Piñero talks to the Conversation about the rise of queer narratives in African literature. “I want to get what truly happened correct, and as for the things I make up, I want them to be grounded in research.” Karen Tei Yamashita discusses her new collection, Sansei and Sensibility, and writing with integrity, no matter the genre. I felt like I was a part of the nature that was all around me, that I was no different from the wildflowers that were growing at that time.” Jericho Brown talks to the Bitter Southerner about youth, home, illness, and the enduring anti-Black violence in America. “There was a field on the side of the cleaners where I began to pay attention to the natural world for myself. He celebrates the public spirit of artmaking in this time of crisis and urges artists to continue to lean into radical forms of publishing and mutual aid. Paul Soulellis reflects on the creative artifacts of the pandemic era: collaborative Google Sheets, virtual workshops, urgent poetry and zines, and more. But I will never accept a relationship in which I’m forced to work on the feelings of a single person over my own or my organization’s goals.” Rigoberto González writes on responsible allyship, and how to recognize when someone is taking over the movement. “I can accept disagreement and even pushback. How could it not with some of the finest authors, scholars, poets, and critics of the twentieth century among its bullet points? Still, I am left to wonder: Who is this for?” Lauren Michele Jackson questions the sudden proliferation of anti-racist reading lists. “The movement and realignment/redistribution of resources (locally and nationally) is yearslong/lifelong labor.” Hanif Abdurraqib has pledged to donate all his 2020 royalties from his book A Fortune for Your Disaster to the Okra Project, a collective that supports the Black trans community with home-cooked meals and other resources. Every day Poets & Writers Magazine scans the headlines-publishing reports, literary dispatches, academic announcements, and more-for all the news that creative writers need to know.
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