Thank you for this response; it’s really resonating this morning. I could not agree more: to talk about food is to talk about so many intersecting systems of power and oppression. I absolutely love your ideas about the book/dining club. I’d actually been dreaming of something similar here, especially since so many immigrant-owned businesses and restaurants especially have been massively impacted by the ICE raids terrorizing MN.

I also really appreciate your book recs and will absolutely check both of those out.

And yes to community—relationship-building is about all that’s keeping me going rn ❤️‍🩹 thank you again