PROJECTS Interviews

WELLBEING | Food Sovereignty

Chef Green: Revitalizing the Food Scene in West Oakland

Chef Green talks about how he’s helping to revitalize the food scene in West Oakland through his own blended culinary style, including tacos and fried fish, which draws clients from across the San Francisco Bay Area (California, United States).

SYSTEMS | Extractivism Alternatives

Curyj: Community-Led Food Pantry in West Oakland

Little Bear talks about his organization’s food pantry project, which he leads, and through which they distribute fresh produce and prepared foods to marginalized community members, such as unhoused people and residents of West Oakland (California, United States).

INDIGENOUS | Indigenous Knowledge-Technologies-Practices

Topological Basketry: Weaving Together Cherokee Technologies and Pedagogy (1 of 2)

Kim Shuck counters the reductionist, colonizing notions of Euro peoples who have deemed basket-weaving to be primitive by teaching her invention, topological basketry, which weaves in a myriad of disciplines, including mathematics, engineering, biology, materials science, chemistry, sociology, and art.

INDIGENOUS | Indigenous Retelling & Telling

The Muwekma Ohlone: Origins, Connectedness, and Perseverance (1 of 5)

Joey Iyolopixtli Torres describes the origins and journey of his tribe, the Indigenous people of what is now called the San Francisco Bay Area (United States), from their creation story centered on Coyote to persevering through waves of European invasion.