DAY TWO: Collective cooking and collaborative reading with edna bonhomme and COVEN BERLIN
We will come together and cook an unnamed and labor-intensive meal as a way of engaging in the intersection of care practices and the lineages that are present in the room. As we cook, we will read to each other out loud, ask questions, and be quiet. The excerpts draw from an assortment of texts on herbal remedies, unwritten histories both post colonial and queer, sick time, homonationalism, and speculation on how to engage with personal relationships to the lineages of enslaved people.
The format will be loose and the timing luxurious, incorporating the idea of ‘sick time’ as a way to resist goal-oriented workshop structures, aiming to facilitate a creative space of comfort and curiosity inside the kitchen, inside hunger, inside thirst, inside critical practices of care, inside the open mouth.
In the context in which racialized minorities, queer bodies, and indigenous groups are under attack by far right leaders and groups, it is important to develop spaces and communities that provide the care, comfort, and healing spaces for collective justice. Collective and performative cooking with stories from our past and our dynamic can help us move through the ongoing traumas that we experience. We are coming together to learn and unlearn, to listen, to dream, and to think about futures where queer and other marginalized lives can thrive.
