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You won’t want to miss the new anthology coming out this fall called “Sistah Vegan! Food, Health, Identity and Society: Black Female Vegans in North America.” Trust me, this is going to be a very important book. Editor Amie Breeze Harper gets all the connections, as you can see in this interview in Satya magazine.

Visit the Sistah Vegan Project online to get a taste of what’s to come. (Be sure to scroll down below the links to read Breeze’s account of how the controversy within the African American community about PETA’s comparison of human and animal slavery led her to begin to compile the voices of Black female vegans and how this in turn led her to new and more complex questions about how “white racialized consciousness shape[s] mainstream veganism” and, in contrast, how some Black North American women practice veganism “to decolonize their bodies and engage in health activism that resists institutionalized racism.”

Also on the website, you can read sample contributions from the anthology and listen to Breeze talk about “decolonizing our diets.” While you’re there, be sure to click on the link to sign up to be notified when the anthology is available.

Finally, you can help Breeze publicize the anthology by downloading and printing this flyer to hang or distribute at your local health food store, independent bookstore, or other suitable location. The publisher of this anthology is a very small press, so we’re all going to have to do our part to spread the word about this groundbreaking book.

August 6th, 2007 | Category: Activism, Books, Gender, Intersections, Race | Subscribe to comments | Leave a comment | Trackback URL