Feminist Food Stories

"We're a culture that revolves around food"

Hi everyone — Isabela here with our second-last edition of this autumn’s SPOTLIGHT series. Today, we’re honoured to feature an audio interview with Lama Obeid, a Ramallah

TikTok Masculinity and the Tradwife

In January 2024, we sat down with hosts Jackie Turner and Matthew Kessler to record an episode for one of our favourite food podcasts, Feed by Table Debates. We’ve been f

Offal Conundrums

Can we square our love of animals with our inability to stop eating their body parts? In this short audio essay, Feminist Food Journal editor Isabela chronicles her evolv

Listen to 'Meat: The Four Futures'

This is an audio reading of Meat: The Four Futures, first published last week by TABLE researcher Tamsin Blaxter as part of our MEAT issue. Tamsin breaks down the gendere

Manning the Grill

Through a conversation with his father, Amirio Freeman digs into the dynamics of grilling as a queer Black man. Drawing on references to literature investigating meat’s l

To Speak in Two Tongues

This is an audio version of the piece “To Speak in Two Tongues”, written (and narrated here) by Mwinji Nakamba Siame for our MEAT issue. Mwinji Nakamba Siame is a writer

Cooking is Resistance

A note from the editors: It is hard to believe that it was almost two years ago that we first published this powerful conversation with the feminist activists behind a vi

Whale politics

In this podcast, Troy Bright, a self-taught orca researcher, shares his knowledge of orcas’ rich matriarchal societies, their unique food cultures, and how our human food

Food, Gentrification, and the City

In this episode of Feminist Food Stories, Isabela sits down with Alison Hope Alkon, Associate Professor of Teaching in the Community Studies Program in the Department of

Sin ellas no hay maíz ni país (audio, en español)

Esta es una versión en audio del artículo "Sin ellas no hay maíz ni país", escrito (y narrado aquí) por María Villalpando para nuestro número de TIERRA. You can also re

Building Power with Black Farmer Fund

In this episode, FFJ co-founding editor Zoë Johnson had the honour of speaking with Melanie Allen and amanda david about their work with the incredible Black Farmer Fund.

ḥačatakma c̓awaak (Everything is interconnected)

In this episode of Feminist Food Stories, editor Isabela sits down with Charlotte Coté, Professor in the Department of American Indian Studies at the University of Washin

The Sexualization of Servitude

In an interesting twist, this is an in-house interview with FFJ’s founding editors. Isabela talks to Zoë about her master's thesis research on bunabéts, otherwise known

Just Because I Bottom, Doesn't Mean I'll Make You a Sandwich

This is an audio reading of Just Because I Bottom, Doesn’t Mean I’ll Make You a Sandwich, narrated by Pericles Santis and written by Jay Gee for our SEX issue. Read the o

Dying for Sardines

Paris, 1942. A group of women storm a grocery store on the Rue de Buci to seize the sardines on sale that day and distribute them to a hungry crowd. A scuffle ensues, sho

There's a War on Fatness

Is there social, political, economic, and cultural war being waged on fat bodies? Scholars have argued that fat stigma is contributing to the social and physiological har

A Treasure for My Daughter

Passover is upon us, and what better time to reflect on a Jewish mother's love for her children? Our MILK highlight of the week is editor Isabela's audio story, A Treasur

The Childless Mothers

This is the audio version of ‘The Childless Mothers’, a piece written by Lauren Gitlin for our MILK issue and read here by the author herself. Lauren is a former food sch

On the "Unbearable Whiteness" of Milk

Milk is a highly contested beverage, but not always for the reasons you might think. In this episode of Feminist Food Stories (and as part of our MILK issue), editor Isab