Weaving Voices is a Whetstone Radio Collective podcast that stitches textile systems and traditions, economic philosophy, and climate science into a quilt of understanding. Designed to transform our thinking and actions both as citizens and material culture makers and users. You can learn more about this podcast at WhetstoneRadio.com, on Twitter @whetstoneradio, on Tiktok and Instagram @whetstonemedia and subscribe to our Spotify and Youtube channel, Whetstone Media, for more podcast content ...
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Taste of Place is a Whetstone Radio Collective podcast hosted by Dr Anna Sulan Masing that explores colonialism, traces trade routes, meets pepper farmers, discovers spice molecules and delves into the mysteries of perfume. A narrative podcast that aims to untangle our understanding of the past and investigate our relationship with nostalgia, with the taste of pepper as the thread. Taste of Place is part of Whetstone Radio Collective. Whetstone Radio Collective creates storytelling dedicated ...
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Stephen Satterfield is the host of the Peabody winning Netflix docu-series High on the Hog, an entrepreneur, writer, former sommelier, founder of food media company Whetstone Media, founder of culinary talent agency Hone Talent, and now host of The Stephen Satterfield Show from Whetstone Radio Collective. With a rotating range of guests, we’re chatting and drinking with field experts, artists, creatives, farmers, activists, chefs, and most importantly, Stephen’s friends. These are the people ...
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Point of Origin is about the world of food, worldwide. Each week we travel to different countries exploring culture through food, examining its past and present, and what it teaches us about who we are and how we came to be. Join Whetstone Magazine co-founder host Stephen Satterfield as he connects with those most immersed in defining and preserving global foodways. Along the way we’re drinking natural wine in Australia, sipping tea — Taiwanese Oolong and Sri Lankan Ceylon — and eating frejo ...
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Whetstone Audio Dispatch is a series of remarkable one-off episodes about global foodways exploring community, climate, activism and politics brought to you by journalists and reporters from around the world. Think of it as a storytelling popup, a one-pot feast serving up fresh ideas and best-in-class reportage about current events, food sovereignty, seed keeping, food origins, ancestral recipes and culinary anthropology. Hosted by Whetstone founder Stephen Satterfield. Whetstone Audio Dispa ...
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Climate Cuisine is a podcast that explores how sustainable crops are used in similar climate zones around the world. In the hands of different cultures, a single ingredient can take on many wondrous forms. Staple crops are seldomly confined to time or place, and thrive where they can— if climatic conditions allow. Climate Cuisine profiles how sustainable, soil-building crops that share the same biome are grown, prepared, and eaten around the world. As the world faces alarming upward shifts i ...
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Hosted by Deb Freeman, Setting the Table is a podcast that explores the stories and histories of African American cuisine and foodways. From Sunday barbeques to the spirits in your cocktails, African Americans have created the foundation of modern American cuisine, yet African American food is one of the least explored food genres. Setting the Table illuminates the ways that African Americans have shaped how this country eats and drinks by exploring the historical events that have influenced ...
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Bad Table Manners pushes the boundaries of food storytelling in South Asia. Despite a universal love of delicious food, South Asian communities’ narratives and food practices maintain social hierarchies, caste inequalities, and racial and gender discrimination. In spanning both “high” and “low” food cultures, this podcast deconstructs monolithic notions of South Asian or “Indian” food by diving into micro contexts of households, restaurants, neighborhoods, streets and communities. It also re ...
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With the growing awareness around how our food and clothing are made and where it comes from, our curiosity and desire to deepen our understanding of the fiber systems that undergird our lives and the communities impacted by them grow with it. Black Material Geographies is a collection of conversations and stories using Blackness and textile material culture to explore how we can create more sustainable systems and processes amid global climate crises and lifestyles deeply entrenched in glob ...
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Fruit Love Letters is a curious dive into the Anthropocene through fruit-colored glasses. Host Jessamine Starr may not be a botanist, historian, farmer or an expert on fruit, but as a chef in Atlanta she's simply had a lifetime love affair with it. So, she began penning love letters to fruit. This podcast pairs those letters with her desires to learn more. From the miraculous survival adventure of the avocado, to the nurturing personality of a fig, we’ll traverse the world of fruit through e ...
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The Nectar Corridor explores the incredible world of mezcal, the most emblematic and diverse spirit of Mexico. Oaxaca-based host Niki Nakazawa takes us on an intimate journey through agave (known as maguey) fields, distilleries and the history of mezcal with the folks who live and breathe the spirit. The Nectar Corridor is part of Whetstone Radio Collective. Whetstone Radio Collective creates storytelling dedicated to food origins and culture, with original content centering the perspectives ...
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The Spirit Plate podcast is an honoring of all the Indigenous communities across Turtle Island (also known as North America) who are working to preserve and revitalize their ancestral foodways. Within the growing Indigenous food movement lies an incredible story of reclamation and intertribal solidarity; powerful yet untold examples of Native peoples resisting and thriving. Spirit Plate is a space for Indigenous peoples of Turtle Island to tell our own history and shape the narrative of our ...
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Excavating Narratives And Symbolism of Food Depictions in Art With Shana Klein
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In this week's episode, Stephen chats with art historian, author, and educator Shana Klein about politically charged fruit, what bananas have to do with coups and clothing stores, and her latest book The Fruits Of Empire: Art, Food, And The Politics of Race In The Age Of American Expansion. Sharing her meticulous research, while examining tradition…
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Black Agrarians, Food Sovereignty, and Liberation w/ Melanie Allen
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We are back! And to welcome us back from hiatus, and joining Stephen in conversation, is Co-Executive Director for the Black Farmer Fund (BFF) Melanie Allen. The BFF is a community-led organization that helps fund and facilitate capital and networking opportunities for Black farmers, land stewards, herbalists, and other food actors. Melanie sits on…
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We bring you an urgent reported episode of Whetstone Audio about the unfathomable and unrelenting war in Palestine and Gaza. The livelihoods of as many as 100,000 Palestinian families depend on native and centuries-old olive and grape crops. We spoke with two Palestinian farmers living in the West Bank, Nader Muaddi, owner of Muaddi distillery prod…
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Behind the Scenes of Culinary TV with Christine Tobin
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Have you ever been mesmerized by the food in TV and movie scenes? Or wondered what the process of creating those dishes is like? We have, so we asked Christine. Christine Tobin is a food stylist and culinary creative working in film, television, and editorial with a mission to bring stories to life through the beauty and culture of food. Christine’…
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The Art of Preserving with Darra Goldstein
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Darra Goldstein is an icon in the world of food academia and publishing. She is the Founding Editor of Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture and has published widely on literature, culture, art, and cuisine and is the author of six cookbooks, including recently released Preserved: Fruit and Preserved: Condiments all about the art of preserv…
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The Business of Craft Winemaking with Michael Cruse
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Michael Cruse has amassed a passionate following of wine lovers since he first launched Ultramarine, a wine light ruby in color and full of fine bubbles, in 2008. So much so that you now have to join a waitlist to get a bottle. Using sparkling wine to examine uniquely Californian soils, in 2013 Michael opened Cruse Wine Co. based in Petaluma, Calif…
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Protecting Recipe Knowledge with Ana Castro
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If you’re not already familiar with rising star Ana Castro, here is your chance to get to know her. In 2021, Ana opened Lengua Madre in New Orleans with a vision to elevate our current understanding of Mexican cuisine. She is now in the process of opening her first first solo venture as chef-owner, called Acamaya, which will open in the spring of 2…
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The Journey to High on the Hog with Roger Ross Williams
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Welcome back to season 2 of The Stephen Satterfield Show! This season we talk to some of the most dynamic people doing passion filled work in the food world. We're especially thrilled to be starting off this season with the incredibly accomplished Roger Ross William, director of both seasons of High on the Hog. Roger is an Oscar, Emmy, and Peabody …
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The Best New Restaurant with Gregory Gourdet
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Today’s guest is Chef Gregory Gourdet! This is a special episode for a couple different reasons, first and foremost, because Gregory’s restaurant Kann was very recently awarded Best Restaurant in the Country 2023 by the James Beard Foundation. Congrats Chef Gregory. Gregory is a chef of Haitian descent, and Kann is brilliant depiction of intention …
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On today's episode, Stephen chats with Hanif Abdurraqib, an award-winning poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. His newest release, A Little Devil In America (Random House, 2021) was a winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal and the Gordon Burn Prize. In 2021, Abdurraqib was named a MacArthur Fellow. He is a graduate of Beechcroft Hi…
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The Decolonized Korean Dish with Giaae Kwon
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Giaae Kwon is a food and culture writer who divides her time between Brooklyn and Los Angeles and author of Decolonizing Korean Food in volume 11 in Whetstone magazine. It’s an incredible article and if you haven't had a chance to read it, you can find it on our website, whetstonemagazine.com. Giaae and Stephen talk about the Korean dish kimbap and…
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During and post pandemic, over 90,000 restaurants closed. On today’s episode Stephen chats with Reem Assil, chef and owner operator of Reem's California. Reem talks about her restaurant surviving the pandemic when so many shuttered, the fragility of the restaurant sector and the labor force, the ways people have been over-extended pre-covid and how…
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On today’s episode of The Stephen Satterfield Show, Stephen speaks with the one and only Soleil Ho. Soleil is an opinion columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle. Prior to that, Soleil was a game changing food critic for not only the Chronicle but ultimately our entire industry. Soleil and Stephen talk about their rise in food media, changing socia…
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On today’s episode Stephen chats with Alicia Kennedy, an award winning writer from Long Island now based in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Alicia and Stephen chat about food media, and the trials and tribulations of writing a book, especially one about veganism which is often seen as an unprestigious subject. Also the topic of fake meat, culinary tourism a…
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On today's show Stephen chats wine with someone we've admired in the wine industry for awhile, fellow sommelier, Femi Oyediran. Femi is the co-owner of Graft wine shop in Charleston, SC. He found his passion for wine at a young age while working at the Charleston Grill and during his time there, he made the rare achievement of passing the first thr…
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The Herbal Abortifacients with Julia Fine
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Julia Fine is a writer and historian pursuing a PhD at Stanford in food and environmental history of the British Empire. Her work on the history of food, environment, and empire has been recognized by the Association for the Study of Food and Society, the Association of Food Journalists, and the World History Association. Before moving to Californi…
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Stephen and Christa chat about her career shift to becoming a farmer after working as a healthcare professional, what inspired her love of agriculture, becoming an entrepreneur and the balance of motherhood, success and sacrifice. Since 2018, Christa has developed earth-born brands based in regenerative agricultural values with a goal of traceable …
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The Social Media Persona with Sana Javeri Kadri
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To start this show we couldn’t think of a better person to join Stephen than our good friend Sana Javeri Kadri, founder of Diaspora Co. a direct trade spice company working towards a radically equitable and sustainable spice supply chain. Sana was born and raised in Mumbai, India. In 2017 she founded Diaspora Co and has grown the company to a natio…
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The Stephen Satterfield Show launches April 12th! This is a show for the food curious, those who want to be inspired by change makers, activists, writers, entrepreneurs and be in the know on what’s happening in the world of food and drink. Every guest shares what has made their work and passion a success and why we should be paying attention. Join …
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Anti-Black Terrorism on Freedom Acres Farm
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We bring you a very important episode of Whetstone Audio Dispatch. Recently, host Stephen Satterfield spoke with C.W. Mallery, a Black farmer in El Paso, Colorado who has been the victim of racist terrorism on his own property. He and his wife Nicole, his farm and his animals have been experiencing various horrific forms of violence and anti-Black …
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Cotton Before it Became the Fabric of Everyone's Lives
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The oldest strains of cotton tell a story of the people who cultivated it. Weaving Voices is part of Whetstone Radio Collective. Learn more about Weaving Voices here. Find show notes here. And transcript here.By Whetstone Radio Collective
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Kantamanto Market-- life and livelihood in the throws of fast fashion's waste streams.
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Sammy Oteng is a Kantamanto Market organizer in Accra Ghana. The market is a 28 acre site, historically created by the people of Ghana to repurpose and reuse materials. Since the onset of fast fashion, the marketplace has become a dumping ground for the waste of the Global North. In a country of 2 million, the marketplace is cycling orders of magni…
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Labor's Lever & a Just Transition for Fast Fashion Workers
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Ground building legislation was passed in 2021 to protect the California garment worker community from the “piece rate”, otherwise known as life threatening wages. We’ll talk to the Executive Director of the Garment Worker Center, an organization that worked with the affected community to design and push the law into place. Weaving Voices is part o…
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Shedding Plastic, Our Modern Wardrobes Impact on Oceans & Soils
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Plastic textiles are flowing and shedding into our soils, oceans and bodies. The reality of 60 percent of our clothing being plastic is that the lint that our textiles produce ends up where we least want it to be— and that includes our biosphere, oceans and soils. We're permeating our ecosystems with a material that microbes can't eat. Dr. Timnit K…
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Thread's of Life; A Visual Map of Indonesian Island Communities
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For thousands of years to the present, the Indonesian archipelago textile communities have been producing intricately complex textiles— woven with yarns dyed in morinda root, indigo and hundreds of other dye plant recipes. In this interview with William Ingram, co-founder of Threads of Life, we discuss the plants, processes and non-material dimensi…
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A Life Woven Together Between Shepherd and Sheep
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In this interview with Jay and Nikyle Begay and Zefren Anderson, we learn about the long arc of relationship between the Dine and the Churro Sheep. Beyond the narratives promulgated by colonization about when this relationship began, we dive into a landscape of relationships held together by mutual care and exchange between shepherds and sheep. The…
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We end the season at a party where guests bring dishes filled with nostalgia and pepper and discuss what pepper means to them. The guests include novelist Emma Hughes, Vittles founder and editor Jonathan Nunn, chef and writer Chloe-Rose Crabtree, previous guests Jenny Lau, Pam Brunton, Tomas Heale and special guest Dr. Masing’s mother, Fiona Mowlem…
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Four thousand meters above the sea, Andean mountain communities have been living with alpaca for thousands of years. Small flock shepherding is a long-held way of life, one that our guest, Mauricio Nunez, is working diligently to see flourish and sustain. He leads the Andean Pastoralist Livelihood Initiative, a multi-stakeholder project that lifts …
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In this episode, Anna chats with visual artist Shiraz Bayjoo, pop-up creator Zolitha Magengelele, and anthropologist Mythri Jegathesan about the power of sharing space, how nostalgic memories often carry the scars of colonisation and how understanding those contradictions can help us better understand what we’re truly nostalgic for. This episode al…
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In this interview with Roland Geyer, we discuss the history and the effects of the interplay of economic forces and environmentalism. We'll also touch on how sustainability has been defined in the last three decades coming out of the U.N. Earth Summit of 1992 in Rio, and what this means for our textile material culture, human labor and the climate …
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In this episode, Anna returns to Sarawak at the height of harvest festival to visit pepper farmers and confront her place of nostalgia. We travel through the Kapit marketplace, visit a pepper farm and laksa cafe, and take part in a ritual honoring the gods, and finally return to London for a bowl of laksa. Taste of Place is a part of Whetstone Radi…
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Mulberry Trees, Silk Moths & Modern Sustainability Measurements
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One of the most ancient fibers, silk has been cultivated for 5,000 years. The silk moth produces a filament designed to protect the moth from heat, predators, wind and water. In turn, these properties generate enduring and high quality second skin garments. Brazil (by luck and fate of Japanese immigration) hosts the Vale da Seda (Valley of Silk), a…
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In this episode we travel to Scotland, where Anna joins chef and owner of Inver Restaurant, Pam Brunton, in the kitchen as she cooks classic Scottish dishes using pepper. Anna explores her own personal connection to Scotland and learns about the idea of landscape cuisine, an idea Pam coined and implements in her own approach to cooking. The two als…
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Interview with Jason Hickel; Economic Anthropologist and the author of the new book Less is More. We discuss the historic political, social, and ecological threads that led to the economic model we now exist within. Understanding the model is foundational to understanding the textile industry as it exists, and the reasons why the most sustaining te…
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This episode is all about the flavors of home. Two friends gift Dr. Masing some Sarawak pepper when she runs out, anthropologist David Sutton explains how we build home through cooking and Diaspora Co. founder Sana Javeri Kadri tells us how she is building a spice business with equality at its heart and to bring a taste of home to diaspora. Taste o…
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In this episode we think about the power of pepper to stir emotions. Perfumer Tanaïs explains how they make and navigate the past through scent and the possibility of re-framing identity. Psychologist Kimberley Wilson contextualizes our understanding of scent and taste, and its effect on memory and building new memories. Taste of Place is part of W…
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Weaving Voices is a Whetstone Radio Collective podcast that stitches textile systems and traditions, economic philosophy, and climate science into a quilt of understanding. Designed to transform our thinking and actions both as citizens and material culture makers and users.By Whetstone Radio Collective
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This episode dives into how we understand flavour, the chemical compound of pepper and the desires across time to find food with heat. Restaurant reviewer and food writer Ligaya Mishan explains how she communicates flavour and Dr. Arielle Johnson breaks down how flavour is a part of cultural identities. Taste of Place is part of Whetstone Radio Col…
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This episode seeks to get to the bottom of pepper's modern supply chain. We hit some bumps along the way, and see the great affection and joy from those who work with pepper. We speak with Dr. Michael R. Dove about Borneo and swidden agriculture, Larry Siat about the changing role of Sarawak pepper in global trade, Keelan Woon, who is part of an in…
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When the merchant Sir James Lancaster, commander of the English East India Company’s first fleet, returned to England in 1603 with ships laden entirely with pepper, this marked a turning point. A time where the Western world shifted and there was no going back. It shifted to a space of desire, a thirst for consumption, a hunger for product and prof…
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In this episode, we find out about pepper as a crop, a plant, and a globally traded commodity. We speak to Dr. Patricia King about how it is grown in Sarawak, Malaysia and then food historian Julia Fine explains how plants can be viewed through a humanities lens so we can understand the cultural impact a plant like pepper has. Taste of Place is par…
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Taste of Place, a Whetstone Radio Collective podcast, airing September 22nd is a narrative podcast that aims to untangle our understanding of the past and investigate our relationship with nostalgia, through the story of pepper. Come along with us as we journey from Malaysia to London exploring the Sarawak pepper.…
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This is the final episode of Season 1, where we explore the question: What would it look like if regional fiber initiatives became the norm? In last week's episode we started to explore how material supply chains impact our system and how to rethink them. Today, the fashion industry is experiencing a resurgence of interest in regional clothing fibe…
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In the final episodes of this season of Black Material Geographies, Teju sharpens her focus on regenerative textile and fiber systems and looks at how and why redesigning our supply chains can create a more efficient and sustainable fashion industry that doesn’t rely on unsustainable and destructive practices. Redesigning supply chains starts with …
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All of us have our own relationship with cotton and the way it fits into our lives. The history of cotton cultivation in the Americas is deeply linked to the history of Black people in this region. Throughout the history of the United States, cotton and the ingenuity and creativity of Black people have played a crucial role in its development as on…
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Sri Lanka is in the middle of a burgeoning crisis. With the island nation facing the worst economy crisis in its history, citizens have been left to bear the brunt — with fuel shortages, hours-long power cuts, and a critical shortage in essential commodities such as milk powder and rice. These difficulties have spurred people’s protests across the …
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Yellow Cake, Biscuits, and the Legacy of Black Baking
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For the season finale of Setting the Table, Deb explores one of her favorite topics, Black bakers and baking. From biscuits to yellow cake, baking has always been a huge part of Black foodways. On this episode, Baker and cookbook author Cheryl Day shares her thoughts on the legacy of Black bakers and preserving recipes, then chef, baker, and TV per…
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During this week's episode, Teju Adisa-Farrar discusses Oakland, natural dyeing, art, and urban farming. Fiber and plants are integral to not just the Black diaspora's history, but also human history more broadly. It is a granular exploration of the broader topic of regenerative production practices. Historically, most human products were created w…
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During the civil rights era, Black women to used their skills as chefs and cooks to support social movements in this country. On this episode, Deb is joined by scholar and writer Suzanne Cope to explores the legacies of two such heroes, Aylene Quin, who helped feed and support the Civil Rights movement in Mississippi, and Cleo Silvers, who helped c…
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Colonialism's Afterlife & Upcyling Fashion, Pt. 2 | Textile Waste
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Western imperialism was and still is a force to be reckoned with. Today in the fashion world, colonialism has left its mark on what we wear, how clothes are made, and who makes them. The ways that clothes are made, the aesthetics of each garment, and even the pricing can be traced back to colonial-era trade routes. Teju Adisa-Farrar continues the c…
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