{"id":21178,"date":"2015-01-08T07:55:35","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T15:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?p=21178"},"modified":"2021-01-13T09:45:56","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T17:45:56","slug":"nwws-sistah-vegan-project-creator-breeze-harper-talk-critical-food-studies-food-social-justice-veganism-vegan-health-activism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/nwws-sistah-vegan-project-creator-breeze-harper-talk-critical-food-studies-food-social-justice-veganism-vegan-health-activism\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Breeze Harper to talk about \u201cScars of Suffering and Healing: A Black Feminist Vegan Perspective on Writing, Race, and Neoliberal Whiteness\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Breeze Harper<\/p><\/div>\n

UO campus
\nGerlinger Alumni Lounge
\n1468 University St.<\/p>\n

A. Breeze Harper<\/a>, editor of the anthology Sistah Vegan: Black Female Vegans Speak On Food, Identity, Health, and Society<\/em>, and the author of the social justice novel Scars: A Black Lesbian Experience in Rural White New England<\/em> (2014) will talk about her writing and activism. Sistah Vegan<\/em> is a groundbreaking anthology that examined how race and gender shape the vegan experience in the United States.<\/p>\n

\"sistah_vegan_cover\"<\/a>Harper\u2019s work focuses on food and social justice, veganism and vegan health activism (particularly among women of color), alternative health philosophies, feminism, post-colonialism, environmentalism, critical race theory, queerness, gender, sexuality and heterosexism, animal rights, classism and their intersectionality. She received a B.A. in geography from Dartmouth College (1998), a Master’s in Educational Technologies from Harvard University (2007) and graduated summa cum-laude from the University of California-Davis with a PhD (2013 – Dissertation – Vegan Consciousness and the Commodity Chain<\/em>) in critical geographies of race and food. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her partner and three young children.<\/p>\n

For a full listing of panels, workshops and other events, go to: http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/events-2\/2014-nwws\/csws-northwest-women-writers-symposium-2015\/<\/a><\/p>\n

The fourth annual CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium \u201cOur Daily Bread: Women\u2019s Stories of Food and Resilience<\/a>,\u201d will be held Thursday May 7, 2015, through Saturday May 9, 2015. Diana Abu-Jaber (Crescent<\/em>; The Language of Baklava<\/em>; Birds of Paradise<\/em>) is the keynote author and will be joined by writers Novella Carpenter (Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer)<\/em>; scholar, activist, social justice novelist, editor Breeze Harper (Sistah Vegan<\/em>; Scars<\/em>); poet Donna Henderson (The Eddy Fence<\/em>), and others.<\/p>\n

This theme opens conversations about the sensuality of food; food and culture; food shortages; hunger and poverty; health and eating disorders; climate change; misuse of natural resources; environmental racism; food distribution; genetic manipulation of seeds; and preparation and growing of food. Food is our daily bread, but in the practice of writing, what else feeds us? \u201cOur Daily Bread\u201d is a rich theme that will open the door to fruitful discussions of craft, creativity, humanity, gender, and community.<\/p>\n

Sponsored by the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society. Cosponsors include Eugene Public Library; Oregon Humanities Center; UO Division of Equity and Inclusion; the UO Departments of Women\u2019s and Gender Studies, English, and Ethnic Studies; UO School of Journalism and Communication; University Health Center; UO Libraries; Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics; and the ASUO Women\u2019s Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UO campus Gerlinger Alumni Lounge 1468 University St. A. Breeze Harper, editor of the anthology Sistah Vegan: Black Female Vegans Speak On Food, Identity, Health, and Society, and the author of the social justice novel Scars: A Black Lesbian Experience…<\/p>\n

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