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Sistah Vegan Black Women Speak on Food, Identity, Health, and Society

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ISBN-10: 1590561457

ISBN-13: 9781590561454

Edition: 2009

Authors: A. Breeze Harper, pattrice jones

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Book details

Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Lantern Publishing & Media
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 7.00" wide x 8.50" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

pattrice jones is an ecofeminist writer, scholar, and activist who, along with Miriam Jones, cofounded VINE Sanctuary, an LGBTQ-run farmed animal sanctuary that operates within an understanding of the intersection of oppressions. In addition to her books for Lantern, she has contributed chapters to Ecofeminism: Feminist Intersections with Other Animals and the Earth; Confronting Animal Exploitation: Grassroots Essays on Liberation and Veganism; Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice; Sistah Vegan; Contemporary Anarchist Studies; Igniting a Revolution: Voices in Defense of the Earth; and Terrorists or Freedom Fighters?: Reflections on the Liberation of Animal.

Appreciations
Preface
Introduction: The Birth of the Sistah Vegan Project
Thinking and Eating at the Same Time: Reflections of a Sistah Vegan
Veganism and Ecowomanism
Social Justice Beliefs and Addiction to Uncompassionate Consumption: Food for Thought
On Being Black and Vegan
Nutrition Liberation: Plant-based Diets as a Tool for Healing, Resistance, and Self-reliance
Young, Black, and Vegan
Veganism: Stepping Away from the Status Quo
Being a Sistah at PETA
Hospital-sponsored Junk Food at a "Healthy" Bike-Riding Event?
Black-a-tarian
Identity, Freedom, and Veganism
Terror
Eyes of the Dead
I Am Sistah Vegan
Gourmet Chef at McD's
To Eat or Not to Eat
Stop Feeding Me Your Bullsh*t
"What You Cooking, Grandma?"
The Food and Sex Link
Journey to Veganism
The Fulfillment of the Movement
Ma'at Diet
Because They Matter
Journey Toward Compassionate Choice: Integrating Vegan and Sistah Experience
Veganism and Misconceptions of Thinness as "Normal" and "Healthy": Sistah Vegans Break It Down in Cyberspace
Afterword: Liberation as Connection and the Decolonization of Desire
Notes
About the Contributors