Collective food practices for just transitions, upcoming events in Detroit and online, AMP Seeds Fall Series, and calls to action!
How can we stay grounded in the upheaval? How can we remain hospitable despite the conditioning of scarcity and separation?Ā
Food and culture curator, Ora Wise, muses on Radical Hospitality, āWhen I talk about radical hospitality ā it's a focus on accessibility, generosity, sensuality and beauty, grounded in the belief that these experiences and elements of life should not be exclusionary or considered superfluous.ā
š May we ground into one another for just transitions, seasonally and societally.
š May we nourish ourselves and one another as the tides change, knowing we are one anotherās anchor in the storm.Ā
This October, we are highlighting some Grounding Nourishment from the Allied Media Conference 2022ās Recipes for Radical Hospitality. Recipes for Radical Hospitality is a digital magazine offering recipes and reflections on feeding resistance and self-determination while facing the harm and injustice wrought by colonialism and capitalism. It is a collection of works by people growing and making food that not only supports and sustains us as individuals, but as communities and movements.Ā
There is unapologetic medicine growing in Detroit.
Our relations, the water, land, fourlegged, plant and two-legged fight hard to stay here.
Waiting for our gifts to be understood.
Since contact, the push to separate Indigenous people from our foods and the land has been an attempt to eradicate us.
The recipe that follows speaks to my personal interactions with food systems over the past year. From planting seeds carried during the Indian Removal Act of 1830 to the community sugarbush in Rouge Park.
Yes, this recipe is technically edible.
However, the reasons why a reader might find it unpalatable are plentiful. The hope here is to spur thought around the past, present and future of Indigenous food sovereignty, for the ancestorsā knowledge (as always) to be protected and for action to ensue.
AGAINST A UNIVERSAL 'WE'Ā And for specificity and regionality in food media. Text and recipe by Alicia Kennedy
There is no one āweā when it comes to food systemsĀ conversations. Differenceāof geography, climate, cultureāmust be acknowledged and respected, even when it gets in the way of the easy narratives about spring and the coming summer tomatoes.
To recognize difference and celebrate specificity is a way of practicing hospitality, and itās also a way of bringing to the forefront that regional food systems are a great way of protecting food supplies when extreme weather does come. There is no hospitality without food, no lengthy photo-ready lunch set at a long table in a sunny garden without food. To protect hospitality and the joy that comes with it, the planet itself must come first.
Allied Media Projects is committed to fostering a healthy, exciting workplace environment in which talented humans combine forces to accomplish incredible things. Through its programs, AMP envisions and attempts to model a world in which we cultivate care and joy, dismantle harmful systems, and assume responsibility for creating new and liberatory ways of being.
Allied Media Projects is currently hiring in both our accounting departments and Human Resources departments for the following roles:
Collective Wisdom: Detroit Narrative Agency co-authored a soon to be released book titled Collective Wisdom alongside MIT Co-Creation Studio and several other co-authors. MIT Press is donating the royalties from the book to AMP.Ā Pre-order anywhere in world Collective Wisdom with MIT PressĀ 20% discount | code: BIGIDEA20 at Penguin Random House (U.S. orders only)
Relentless Bodies,Ā a disability and healing justice creative collective in Waawiiyaatanong/Detroit, will convene an intimate cohort of six disabled BIPOC people to join them in study, community, and creative practice. Understanding both disability and study expansively, their Disability Justice Study Program will occur online once a month from late Fall 2022 through Spring 2023. There will be a participation stipend, access support, and no previous knowledge outside lived experience with disability or chronic illness is required. Applications here will open October 5, and close EOD October 24th.
Our hearts are with the communities on the frontlines of Iran, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Florida, Pakistan, and the ongoing crises globally and locally.
Support our Sponsored Project: Espicy Nipples!Ā EspicyNipples is a Puertorican, transfeminist network that documents the lives of members of the TILQAPBG+ community, women, poor people, Black people, immigrants, people living with HIV, single parents and caretakers as well as indigenous people through popular media. Support bridgade efforts lead by and for Black, Trans Puertoricans affected by Hurricaine Fiona.
Paradise Natural Foods Fundraiser: Mama Nezaa has been "feeding the movement" for more than a decade. We're thrilled that she will soon be opening up her first brick and mortar Deli & Marketplace at the LOVE Building.Ā Help her close her fundraising gap and eat some delicious food while you're at it!
There is unapologetic medicine growing in Detroit.
There is no one āweā when it comes to food systemsĀ conversations. Differenceāof geography, climate, cultureāmust be acknowledged and respected, even when it gets in the way of the easy narratives about spring and the coming summer tomatoes.
eople to join them in study, community, and creative practice. Understanding both disability and study expansively, their Disability Justice Study Program will occur online once a month from late Fall 2022 through Spring 2023. There will be a participation stipend, access support, and no previous knowledge outside lived experience with disability or chronic illness is required. Applications 
