Next time a man I don’t know asks when I’m feeding him, I’ll just send this video ⬇️

Ask yourself: What did you bring to MY table, sir?

#OkraStew #GambianFood #FoodIsLabor #GenderedLabor #UnpaidLabor #DiasporaCooking #BlackFeministKitchen #CulturalBoundaries

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You’re Not Entitled to What You Didn’t Build: Gendered Labor, Food, and Patriarchal Entitlement in Gambian Culture What Gambian men call "culture" is often just gendered entitlement. Cooking is not a performance. Domestic labor is not a love language. And jokes about food aren't harmless when they target women’s u...

Cooking isn’t culture when it’s only demanded from women.

Grown men asking for Domoda while calling me “Westernized” is exactly what’s broken.

Full essay: [below 👇🏾]

#GambianCulture #GenderedLabor #Matriarchy #BlackFeminism #FoodPolitics

How about a human figure? This #shepherd shows a division of gendered labor - it's a woman who owns the family's herds of #llamas, so she is in the heavens taking care of llama mama and baby. #andes #ancientandes #cosmology #worldview #labor #genderedlabor #archaeology #cosmos