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.
Jay McMillin on Race and Gender
Jay McMillin is a native Californian who studied Ethnic Studies at U.C. Berkeley. While working in the industrial food system through college, she first became aware of the inequalities surrounding food access. Currently Jay is interested in finding a way to funnel the current popular Local, Organic, Real Food movements into the disenfranchised communities who are still largely unexposed. She is currently helping in the developing stages of a Non profit Teaching Farm and Environmental Education Camp serving the greater Richmond Area. Jay is a cook in an Artisan Soup Kitchen in Berkeley’s famed Gourmet Ghetto, and an Epicurean Concierge – guiding food tours in the Bay Area,CA.
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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 historical ways in which women of color are sexualized within food systems? In what ways does this continue today?
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How are women of color in particular affected by the current, unjust food system?
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How is violence in the food system (like animal cruelty and unsafe working conditions) related to domestic violence, war, and rape?
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