Cooking is Resistance
Cooking is Resistance
A conversation about food, war, and feminist organizing
Appears in this episode
For this month’s Letter from the Editors, Zoë spoke with three feminist activists behind a virtual cooking class in support of Feminist Workshop (a Ukrainian NGO). In this podcast, they discuss food, war, and feminist organizing.
This podcast was written and produced by Zoë Johnson with original music by the Electric Muffin Research Kitchen.
SHOWNOTES
Transcript
Read the show transcript here.
Resources
Learn more about Feminist Workshop and donate to their feminist and queer mutual aid in Lviv via GoFundMe;
Check the list of feminist, LGBTQI, disability justice groups in Ukraine and donate to them directly;
Read the Solidarity Statement and Call for Action; and
Follow Sonaksha Iyengar, who did the beautiful graphics for Cooking Up Resistance.
Featured Audio Clips
Woman at war by Benedikt Erlingsson (2018): Ukrainian folk singers
Feminist Workshop: “Sex, Freedom, Money: What more do feminists want? (“СЕКС, СВОБОДА, ГРОШІ: ЧОГО ЩЕ ХОЧУТЬ ФЕМІНІСТКИ?”)
NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday: “Ukrainian women are volunteering to fight, continuing a tradition”
Cooking is Resistance
I so enjoyed listening to this interview with the three activists behind Cooking Up Resistance. I attended the borscht making event and shared my pot of soup with dear friends. It was lovely to listen to the voices of these young activists as they “unpacked like cabbage” what motivates and inspires their work - from a very small act, like taking out a drone with a pickle jar to “all the beautiful smart ideas born when women get together”. Thanks Zoë , for bringing this interview to us and demonstrating that care is the antidote to violence and the ethics of care is demonstrative of the world we want. A friend recently shared her family’s Seder prayer with me , “we say let everyone who is hungry come and eat. We are not free until all of us are free..” Feminist Workshop a great organization and I am glad to have learned more about them and the work they do not only in the Ukraine but in all of Europe.
Amazing!! The mindfulness showed by these women to ensure that their organizing was not for Ukrainians, but for people in the Ukraine, is a huge distinction that matters. These women are amazing to listen to and seeing as “care is the antidote to violence”, these women are pockets of peace in the world. A joy to listen to, thank you!!