Creativity blooms from many sources.

Informed & moved by the work, ideas, and contributions of the below in no particular order:

Immolakee Coalition of Workers

Lily Choi, TCM practitioner

The Atavist, magazine

Andrew Wong, chef and anthropologist

Paulo Freire, writer and educator

Mirisata, worker-owned restaurant

Atlas of Transformation, global guidebook

Ashtin Berry, hospitality activist

Gran Fury, AIDS activists and guerilla art collective

Ocean Vuong, writer and poet

Josh Niland, chef

New Economy Coalition, solidarity economy coalition

Sidney Mintz, writer and anthropologist

Carmen Maria Machado, writer

Jamaica Kincaid, writer

Cordial, restaurant and bar

Project Cybersyn, Chilean political experiment

Reciprocal filial piety

Sunnyside-Woodside Mutual aid, neighborhood mutual aid network (and the many others in NYC borne of queer mutual aid legacies)

Aimé Césaire, writer and poet

Guerilla gardening

Stuts Jazz Journey, Spotify playlist

ROC United, restaurant worker organizers

Reem Assil, chef and activist

Sally Barnes, fisherwoman

Aeon, magazine

Design Justice, framework

Black Panther Party’s breakfast and medical clinic programs

Nalgonas, dissident ED educator

BJ Dennis, chef

Kyla Wazana Tompkins, writer

Maintenance Phase, podcast

Commune de Paris

Hanif Abdurraqib, music critic

Keywords for American Cultural Studies, essay anthology

Triage in food distribution

Stop Cop City, abolitionist organization

Dawa’s, restaurant

Assata Shakur, activist

Atoboy/Atomix, restaurants

Chicago Teacher’s Union

Radical hackerspace culture

Lil Deb’s Oasis, restaurant

Splendid Table, podcast

W.O.W. Project, Manhattan Chinatown activists

Anthony Padilla, mycologist

James Baldwin, writer

Natalie Diaz, poet

Sakagura, restaurant

Verso Books, publishing house

Project O, fermentation project

Emergence, magazine

Anthony Bourdain, writer

Septime, restaurant

Jacobin’s Bourdain obituary, by Arun Gupta

Corona Plaza Street Vendors Association

Eartha Kitt, musician and activist

Bluestockings, bookstore

Cecilia Vicuña, artist

Anna Tsing, writer

last updated 3.5.24