The Spoken Word Project features interviews with local food justice advocates exploring the impact of power, privilege and racism in the food system. Listen to stories and inspirations directly from grassroots leaders creating change.

Analena Hope on Medicalization and Pathologization of Bodies of Color

Analena Hope is a PhD candidate at the University of Southern California in the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity.  Her research focuses on food access, food justice and food sovereignty movements, and situates food as central to the transformation of communities of color.  She examines sustainable systems like permaculture, and other radical agriculture practices like guerilla gardening to illuminate their emancipatory potential to free us from industrial food systems, and the medical industrial complex which profits from food-related illnesses.

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What does it mean to you and your community to dismantle racism through the food system?
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What would the world look like without an imbalance of power and privilege?
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What are some examples of white institutions studying, dissecting, and analyzing bodies of color?
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How do these examples often show the white body as “healthy, natural, etc.” and the body of color as “obese, abnormal, etc”?
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How do you build empowering images of bodies of color within your community, popular culture, etc.?
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