Our Food While Living Colored
- clockThursday, January 30, 2020 at 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
- pin4305 University Ave, San Diego, CA 92105-1601, United States
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About this Event
Wisdom will be shared by Diane Moss of Project New Village. We will be hosting group discussions on what food means to the Black Womxn community of San Diego. Youth, accomplices and allies are welcome! Free food will be provide. There is limited seating, so please RSVP ASAP! This event has a suggested donation of $25 to fuel the movement, which can be given at our fundly page, fundly.com/march-for-black-womxn-1.
ATTENTION: This is an event about food justice and Afro-Centric health! It is not a space for fatphobia, ableism, or weaponizing health. M4BWSD wants to have a discussion about the systems, stereotypes and biases that are in place when it comes to health for Black Womxn. We also want to highlight diversity in bodies and variations in what wellbeing looks like within the Black Womxn community. The conversation we plan on having at this event and in follow-up events to this series (that will take place after the M4BWSD March) are about how food is an ally to our bodies, our culture, our way of thriving. This is a conversation for Black Womxn to take control of their bodies, while accomplices and allies are welcome to listen and learn about ways they can support Black Womxn to reach their health goals ON BLACK WOMXN TERMS, not according to society's unrealistic beauty standards for womxn. Our dialogues will be real, focusing on racism, fatphobia, food apartheids, and black revolution/resistance through food as medicine. Concern for someone's health is NOT, we repeat, NOT justification for commenting on their body or food consumption! No one needs to prove their healthiness to anyone else and we will not allow any form of ableism or moralization of health that makes people perform to appeal to other's expectations. This is about Black Womxn, our bodies as temples of grow/healing/restoration, and honoring the miracle that is the [BLACK] human body.
In 2017, Black Women in San Diego, led by Nyisha Green-Washington were inspired by Black Women's Blueprint National Call to Action to march and meet to lift up demands for racial justice, to denounce the propagation of state-violence and the widespread incarceration of Black women and girls, rape and all sexualized violence, the murders and brutalization of transwomen and the disappearances of our girls from our streets, our schools and our homes; to advocate for political change focused on intersectional women’s rights issues like poverty, affordable housing, reproductive rights, immigration protections and must center on the most vulnerable . We held our first town hall in September and had to hold another due to the demand by Black women to be in community with one another. At our second convening, we decided that we wanted to march to uplift our demands. In 2018, we held our first march and 100's attended. In 2019, Kelsey Daniels founded and organized a summit called Black Womxn Save My Life, to lift up, give healing and resources to Black Women facing racist healthcare treatment. The day after the summit, we marched again and even more people attended. M4BWSD will continue to march, organize and advocate until our demands our met.
Hosted by March For Black Women SD and Mid-City CAN (Community Advocacy Network)
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