It's important especially for white vegans to understand the perspectives of other, black, vegans - where people came from, how they came to veganism, how white colonialism and the history of slavery has affected others.
This book was cool in establishing a feeling of "hey, there's different people just like me." Welcome back. Well, actually two books.One is an Afro-futuristic themed novel, integrating ethical food objects to tell the story of systemic racism, violence, green capitalism, and the colonization of another planet to sustain the ‘better’ class of plant-based consuming elite….Would anyone like to connect me with a publisher that you think would be interested in the new NOVEL that I am writing? Or honey. I wish the collection of essays lived up to my expectations. For example, “Why are many white people so blind to racial issues?” Consider writing it in a way that excludes the use of ‘blind’ because it can be ableist and implies that blind people are incapable of understanding racial power dynamics simply because they can’t “see”. Too bad it was penned by mostly academic cis women, many of whom seemed far too invested in ad hoc Afrocentric rituals based on the sanctity of the womb and some other gender essentialist, cissexist nonsense, to make room for the existence of anyone who might be queer, who might be trans, or who just don't relate to the classroom, after years of being told we don't make the cut. The author of this book critically looks at veganism from an African American woman's point of view and assists us (black vegan women) in voicing our concerns about race, feminism and the “All social inequities are linked. I appreciated their honest and willingness to disagree. I've enjoyed the vegans of color blog and recently picked up Vegan Soul Kitchen, but I had yet to come across anything specific to African American women. Don’t keep on holding off. If you are a vegetariI wanted to get this book as soon as I saw it - it seems very rare to come across a book about vegans from an African American woman's perspective. Some questions to be addressed:Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. This is a nonBlack kid telling him this and even though I’m doing antiracism education with the kids, I have not talked about this word yet to any depths, but now I will… However, now that many kids are singing this song to get kids to say ‘n*gger’, me and my husband have had to teach them what this word means, along with his younger sister who has been singing it, aloof. Sich mit der Idee zu befassen, dass Hinterfragungen von Rasse, Gender und Weißsein, innerhalb des Veganismus, nicht sinnlos sind: Reflektionen über die Sistah Vegan Conference Dieser Text als PDF (der Link öffnet sich in einem neuen Fenster) Quelle: ‘Engaging with the idea that interrogations of race, gender, and whiteness in veganism is not pointless: Reflections… Collectively, these activists are de-colonizing their bodies and minds via whole-foods veganism.