I Can't Write About Food Today

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It’s becoming increasingly tone-deaf to talk about food & cooking. While people are starving in Gaza, sharing recipes, or even discussing problems within our food system, feels painfully removed from the reality unfolding, which is that people are starving while aid sits being blocked from distribution.

On Thursday night, I went to see a new documentary called Heightened Scrutiny, about the ACLU lawyer, Chase Strangio’s, historic case against the Supreme Court in the fight to protect trans youth.

I was reminded during the panel after the film (which everyone should see) that without liberation for all people, none of us can truly be free.

Even if the fight to protect trans healthcare isn’t personal to you like it is to me and Theo, it’s a fight for civil rights and human rights.

Queer liberation is fundamentally tied to the dreams of Palestinian liberation: self-determination, dignity, and the end of all systems of oppression.

The fight to stop the genocide in Gaza is a fight for our shared humanity. We cannot remain silent in the face of ethnic cleansing.

We live in a globalized, hyper-connected world, and with that comes responsibility. You can’t just look away from the photos you are seeing of starving children and doctors.

What you do makes a differece and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. The greatest danger to our future is apathy, You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you.

Jane Goodall

Or said another way, The White Privilege of Avoiding Bad News

3 Actions You Can Take Today

1. You can change your mind - it’s never too late.

2. Research the BDS movement and change what you buy today. It matters.

3. Learn:

• Holocaust survivor speaks out here

• Starvation and Profiteering in Gaza with Francesa Albanese from the Chris Hedges Report

• Starvation in Gaza is destroying communities – and will leave generational scars

This “sociology of starvation” was outlined by Raphael Lemkin, the lawyer and Holocaust survivor who coined the word genocide then campaigned for it to be recognised as a crime in international law, de Waal said.

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