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Sistah Vegan Blog:
A Critical Race Feminist's Journey Through the 'Ethical Foodscape'...and Beyond

Oct 27

Pt. 1: Afrofuturism as a Regenerative Future: Beyond The 'Cruelty-Free' Plantation Model of FoodTech

My name is Dr. A. Breeze Harper. I am the founder of theThe Sistah Vegan Project. I live in the USA. I was born and raised here. Literally, this is the site of genocide of millions of #indigenous people & their land stolen. #Africans were enslaved to build the agricultural system which directly created the wealth of white landowning men (and women). This was the birth of USA's food system, economics, & racial caste system. As a Black woman, activist, and academic scholar, I

Oct 4, 2017

[Podcast]: On Working with White Fragility as a Black Feminist and Food Studies Scholar

[New Podcast] Dr. A Breeze Harper on Working with White Fragility interviewed by Dr. Eric Garza. Fresh off the audio press. Episode 19: Dr A Breeze Harper on Working With White Fragility Despite having brown skin and being a “melanated peoples”, I burn in the sun in approximately 5 minutes. It can be as ‘cool’ as 69 degrees Fahrenheit and I will burn…My mother used to always joke, “You would have made a horrible field slave”, which kind of makes perfect sense. She has always

Sep 4, 2017

Black Mammyism in Mainstream Veganism and Beyond

This was in 2011. I finished my PhD in 2013. But I wanted to reshare this video about Black Mammyism. I will reflect on this in my new book/talk event October 7, 2017 (see details after the video) . Below is my upcoming event and information about my latest book project which, for the first time in my life, incorporates humor into the serious topics of Black feminism, veganism, food ethics, and Black motherhood. If you liked the above video, maybe you’d like to check out my m

Aug 16, 2017

AR/Vegan Groups Silence on Anti-Racism/Anti-White Supremacy Statement and Action Plans

If you have not already done so, urge your favorite and other USA based animals rights and / pro-vegan organizations to release an official statement and action plan on how they do not support white supremacy/racism(if they have not yet done this). Urge them to not take the ‘cosmetic diversity‘ approach and to understand that racism can take on many forms, not just Neo Nazis and KKK groups (check out racial micro-aggressions and neoliberal racism for instance). Urge them to

May 23, 2017

Diversity, Inclusion, and Opportunities: An Interview with Animal Charity Evaluators

[Updated May 23 2017, 17:30 PST] The Sistah Vegan Project was excited to hear about the work Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) is doing in the animal advocacy world in terms of implementing new diversity initiatives. We decided to ask them a few questions about their organization, their new diversity and inclusion initiative, as well as telecommuting opportunities available at ACE– which is great for those of you seeking paid opportunities that focus on animal advocacy. The ma

Feb 18, 2016

Uprooting White Fragility: Intersectional Anti-Racism Within the Ethical Foodscape

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Feb 9, 2016

[Vegan Special Edition]: A Progressive Investment in Whiteness (‘Non-Racist’ ‘Crue

[Updated February 11 2016 to explain “progressive” a little better] It’s been awhile, but the above is the latest from the Snarky Fanon series by The Sistah Vegan Project. Snarky Fanon is the comic/visual representation of how I experience the USA as a Black cisgender bisexual woman (raised in a working class household)…who then discovered how to analyze the meaning of my embodied experience through critical race feminism and Frantz Fanon’s groundbreaking critical race psycho

Nov 25, 2015

Response to Whitesplaining Black Lives Matter (“Black men do not get shot if they beat up thei

Yesterday, yet another white identified woman responded, on Facebook, to my Vegan Praxis of Black Lives Matter spring 2015 conference. Having never attended the event, she wrote how “ridiculous” the event idea was, that “All Lives Matter”, and then whitesplained that “Black men do not get shot if they beat up their girlfriends” (a random ‘connection’ she was making after reading that a Black man who abused his girlfriend didn’t end up getting shot by the police). She makes t

May 26, 2015

From Seed to Table[t]: Can Foodie-Tech Startups Change a Neoliberal, Racist, and Capitalist [Food] S

On CNN.com, I watched this video: Will Blue Apron Kill your Grocery Store?. Since watching it, so many questions and comments have popped into my head. Basically, what is up with this boom in the food-techie startup world and the lack of critical race and critical whiteness scholarship around it within the mainstream media and academic publications? Actually, I have been thinking about writing about food-tech businesses for the last few years. It’s kind of hard not to, living

May 12, 2015

Oregon Adventures: Talking about scars and whiteness, racial micro-aggressions from a Sarah Palin su

I had a fantastic time during my book talk tour in Oregon this past week (May 6-10 2015). I read from and analyzed my new novel Scars: A Black Lesbian Experience in Rural White New England . I read the food object in my novel and explained how they can tell us about current racial power dynamics in the USA. Highlights to share include ending my University of Oregon-Eugene talk at the podium while nursing my 1 year old, Kira Satya, on my right boob while answering questions.

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Sistah Vegan Blog: A Critical Race Feminist's Journey Through the 'Ethical Foodscape'...and Beyond

Sistah Vegan Blog:
A Critical Race Feminist's Journey Through the 'Ethical Foodscape'...and Beyond