Framingham State University
Uprooting Racism, Seeding Sovereignty Live Q/A with Naima Penniman
Event with Naima Penniman, Program Director, Soul Fire Farm
TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 2021
Keynote Address: available on Panopto for the FSU community
Q/A with Naima Penniman
Suggested audience: adults and older youth, ages 14+
The storytelling weaves the history and structural realities of racial injustice in the food system, with movement strategies past and present of frontlines communities mobilizing for food and land sovereignty. Learn how you and your organization can help build a food system based on justice, dignity, and abundance for all members of our community.
For Further Learning and Taking Action:
Resources: https://www.soulfirefarm.org/resources/
Action Items: https://www.soulfirefarm.org/get-involved/take-action/
True Love Seeds: https://trueloveseeds.com/
Food Insecurity among Farmworker Families and their Children
Presser, Lizzie (2019) The Dispossessed: Why are so many black families losing their land? The New Yorker. https://features.propublica.org/black-land-loss/heirs-property-rights-why-black-families-lose-land-south/
Castro, Abril (2019) Progressive Governance Can Turn the Tide for Black Farms, Center for American Progress. https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/economy/reports/2019/04/03/467892/progressive-governance-can-turn-tide-black-farmers/
Watch the Trailer:
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About the Presenter:
Naima Penniman (all pronouns), Program Director of Soul Fire Farm, is a multi-dimensional artist, movement builder, healer, grower and educator committed to planetary health and community resilience. As Program Director, she coordinates Afro-Indigenous farming immersions and workshops to equip hundreds of adults and youth annually with the land-based skills needed to reclaim leadership as farmers and food justice organizers in their communities, to heal their relationship with earth, and to imagine bolder futures. She is the Co-Founder of WILDSEED Community Farm & Healing Village, a Black and Brown-led intentional community focused on ecological collaboration, transformative justice, and intergenerational responsibility. She is also the Co-Founder/Co-Artistic Director of CLIMBING POETREE, an internationally-acclaimed performance duo that uses art as a tool for popular education, community activism, and personal transformation. Naima is devoted to subverting injustice, igniting imagination, and cultivating collaborations that elevate the healing of our earth, ourselves, our communities, lineages and descendants.