[ZINE] YOU STIR THE POT: Recipes for Change

Colonized and occupied Narragansett, Wamponoag, and Pokanoket land (so-called Providence RI): SNAKE HAIR, 2022. Spiral_bound. Riso printed in fluorescent orange and purple on white and yellow paper, spiral bound. Near fine. Unpaginated [74] pgs. 28 x 22 cm. An anthology of recipes written by artists around the world. Each combines instruction for creating food with instructions for creating social change that pull from the authors' personal and cultural stories. Processes like fermentation, marinating, boiling, chopping, blending, etc. inspire us to think about social and collective actions like organizing, protesting, education, attending, listening, sharing and donating.

To stir the pot is an English idiom that means to make trouble or provoke agitation. Our society's systems that serve few at the expense of so many would prefer that we stay quiet and siloed but here, we ask You, Stir the pot! This is an ongoing project made possible by the artists that occupy these pages. It is inspired by a long history across location of organizing and agitating taking place in the kitchen and at the dinner table. There are countless examples of covert communication and exchange having taken place in the pages of cookbooks an dit is often the domestic, feminine spaces that go unnoticed for their radical, mutual and strategic approach to social change.